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NSF Interview with Project ACE leaders |
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October 31, 2008 - Two RIT Faculty and a student are being interviewed by the National Science Foundation about a workshop
on teaching computer science to visually challenged students. What is unusual about this interview is that the RIT people
are in Rochester, NY and the NSF interviewer is in Washington, D.C.
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link to NSF Video Interview and Press Release
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Using Access Grid technology, this interview is being conducted live between the two cities just as if they were in the same studio.
The National Science Foundation is using the Arlington, VA-located ACCESS Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
which is equipped with an Access Grid Node. The Access Grid is a Department of Energy funded open source project managed by
the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, IL. Access Grid technology provides a framework for multimedia-rich conferencing
tools.
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Almost 400 miles away at RIT in Rochester, NY in the Streaming Media Laboratory of the IT Department in the Golisano College of
Computing and Information Sciences, staff of the Research Computing group wheel in a mobile Access Grid Node and plug it into the network data port. Stephanie Ludi
and Tom Reichlmayr, Professors in the Software Engineering Department, and Jeremy Leakakos, RIT student, sit behind a low table and
in front of an RIT flag that has been pinned to the wall behind them.
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Using the professional studio lighting and microphones
of the Lab, the Access Grid system sends a 30 megabit per second DV video stream from the lab to the ACCESS studio in Arlington.
The RIT researchers watch and listen to a standard video stream used by the NSF interviewer and answer questions about
the workshop that NSF funded.
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