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Richard
Anderson is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering at the University of Washington. He graduated with a
B.A. in Mathematics from Reed College
in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University
in 1985. He joined the University
of Washington in 1986 and has conducted research in the theory and
implementation of algorithms. His current research focuses on
Educational Technology with projects in classroom interaction
technologies, tutored video instruction and distance learning.
His involvement with ConferenceXP began in 2001-2002 academic year
when he was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research. While at
Microsoft, he led the development of Classroom
Presenter, a tool for delivering presentations from the TabletPC.
He was the 2007 recipient of the UW College of Engineering
Faculty Innovator for Teaching Award.
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Fred
Videon is a software engineer at the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He has been
working on distance learning applications for the UW CSE Professional
Masters Program since 1997. His involvement with ConferenceXP began
in 2001, and ConferenceXP was first deployed for distance learning
by the UW CSE Professional Masters Program in Spring 2002. Since
then he has contributed several applications to the ConferenceXP platform,
focusing on Windows Media streaming (Windows
Media Gateway), archive transcoding (CXP
Archive Transcoder) and
integrated archive playback (CXP
WebViewer).
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Paul Oka, Senior
Program Manager, Microsoft Research
As a research program manager, Paul Oka is responsible for
coordinating multi-million dollar research alliances between Microsoft
Research and academic institutions. He is a member of Microsoft External
Research and Programs group and is located on MIT's campus in
Cambridge, MA where he leads research projects as a technical advisor
and coordinates technology transfer between universities and Microsoft
Research.
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Jim DeRoest Jim DeRoest is director,
streaming media technologies for the Computing & Communications
department at the University of Washington, and director, e-Science
Initiatives for Pacific Northwest GigaPOP. His team is involved in
research, development and support focusing on the cyber-infrastructure
surrounding multimedia asset capture, digitization, management, and
delivery for ResearchChannel, UWTV, KEXP radio, and the University of
Washington campus.
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Andrew Whitaker Andrew Whitaker is a Postdoc in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He graduated with a BS in Computer Science from Indiana University in 1999, and a Ph.D.
in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2005. His current interests include operating systems, networking, and computer science education. He is also exploring the applications of computer technology for developing regions.
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Mike Wellings
Michael Wellings is Director, Engineering, for the streaming media video
and TV technologies division of the Computing and COmmunications
Department at the University of Washington. He is also Director of
Engineering for UWTV, KEXP-FM, and the ResearchChannel Consortium.
His team supports programming via the Internet
and two 7x24 broadcast channels nationwide. Michael also directly
contributes to goals of content creation and
manipulation processes to test materials for analog and digital broadcast
and on-demand multimedia offerings and creates experiments with new
methods of distribution and interaction on a global basis. Michael
pioneered efforts in MPEG-2 high-quality on-demand video distribution and
was the chief broadcast architect for High Definition Television over IP
networks with streams ranging up to 1.5Gbps per stream.
Michael was responsible for the successful demonstration of uncompressed
audio streams over internet and leads a team of 10 engineers to further
push the intersection of technologies that combine Internet, satellite and
cable distribution.
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Ning Li
Ning Li is a visiting scientist in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He is a PhD candidate in State Key Lab of Software Development Environment in Beihang University (Beijing China). He graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and Technology from Beihang University in 2004. His current interests include computer-based collaboration technology, networking, and computer science education.
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Luo Jie
Luo Jie is a Ph.D student in School of Computer Science and Engineering at Beihang University, China. He graduate with a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Peking University, China. He is doing a one year visiting research in University of Washington.
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