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Jim Miller <jimmsl@aol.com>
Peter T. Knight <ptknight@gmail.com>
References:
(a)
(20130214-B) Introduction to Internet2/Megaconference
<http://tinyurl.com/cdd97qb>
(b) Archives of Video Tapes of Global Lecture Hall (GLH) -- with 1994 and 1996
GLHs
<http://tinyurl.com/7te8mxh>
(c) (20120316) March 28th Meeting - Columbia University Seminar on Knowledge,
Technology, and Social Systems
<http://tinyurl.com/7ypzqra>
(d) Biography of Dr. Thomas Mensah
<http://tinyurl.com/6wphmzq>
Dear Jim:
(1) Many, many thanks for your msg
(ATTACHMENT I below) in response to the Reference (a) above.
Certainly, I m very delighted to hear from you again after so long absence.
I am also very happy to hear that you are now working with IEEE on the Global
Humanitarian Technology Conference in Silicon Valley this fall. It sounds
very interesting, since its subjects are very much similar to what we are doing
with our GEWS/GUS projects.
Dear Peter:
(2) Very glad to hear from you, too (ATTACHMENT II below).
Yes, we had a Skype video for Tapios inspiring talk
from Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil during our
conference at Rutgers University in New Jersey on June 8th, 2012.
Pls enjoy your days in Rio de Janeiro — and pls convey my best personal regards to your wife, Zaida.
Dear Jim and Peter:
(3) Yes, you pioneered videoconferencing.
Pls visit the 1994 GLH at the Reference (b) above,
where you can view your demo and presentation via ShareVision
through POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) from distance education conference
in Moscow to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville (UTK). It shows how
you two contributed to the development of videoconferencing in global scale
without spending much cost.
At this web site, you can also view Greg Coles excellent demo of MOSAIC, the
predecessor of NETSCAPE, the first web browser, with his Russian colleague,
Natasha Bulashova. Greg kindly says that this
occasion initiated his GLORIAD.
Although Greg says that he did not notice, but what I noticed at that time
— just for a very few seconds -- was a clear image of his student, John,
in another building, when both conversed through Ethernet campus net at 3.4
Mbps — which was broadband at that stage of Internet development.
I then thought the possibility of videoconferencing through Internet.
A several years later in the summer of
1999, I asked Tapios graduate student to download a NetMeering software from the Microsofts web site at free
of charge. He then connected with Montana State University in Bozeman,
Montana (my alma mater) through Internet during the workshop at Tapios University of Tampere, Finland, for which fund I
arranged from the InfoDev of the World Bank when
Peter was still working there. It was astounding success (*), so that I
could terminate the use of many satellites spanning the globe for our GLH videoconferencings, which I conducted once or twice every
year in the 1990s — satellites were too expensive, cumbersome,
no-interaction, too much latency, only broadcasting for wide areas, etc..
(*) BTW, an engineering professor at
the Montana State University was afraid that such connection between Bozeman
and Tampere would certainly faile since there were
almost 13 switching nodes!! -- imagine, how unreliable
and un-trustful Internet was around that time!!
As Jim says, since then, there have
been great strides on the technological development — especially, thanks
to the invention made on the fast extrusion of optical fiber by one of our
colleagues, Tom Mensah — see References (c) and
(d) above — which initiated broadband Internet of today.
Dear Jim:
(4) At the Reference (b), you can also view our GLH in Budapest, Hungary, where
you can also view the clippings of your demo of the use of portable dish
antenna for INMALSAT which connected our site at the SENAI in Florianopolis,
Brazil to the UNESCO in Paris, which was made a couple weeks prior to the
Budapest event.
This GLH was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fulbright exchange
program, and Mr. George Soros talked via audio from his home in Long Island in
New York.
(5) I would greatly appreciate it if you can kindly continue to help our
GEWS/GUS projects.
Keep in touch.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT
I
From: Jim Miller <jimmsl@aol.com>
Subject: IEEE GHTC in Silicon Valley
Date: February 15, 2013 2:36:07 PM EST
To: takutsumi0@gmail.com
Cc: "Peter T. Knight" <ptknight@gmail.com>
Previous email sent in error.
See complete message below.
Sent from Jim's iPhone
On Feb 15, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Jim Miller <jimmsl@aol.com>
wrote:
Hi Tak,
It's been a long time since we were last in contact. I hope you and your wife
are doing well.
I see that you still doing the GLH. I still remember the early days with ShareVision. In fact I recently had the pleasure of seeing
Peter Knight and his wife recently here in the NW as they toured the US before
relocating to Brazil. We Skype often.
I saw this email and was reminded of how far technology has come, and yet more
people are deprived of access today than ever. Over 4 billion survive on less
than 2 dollars per day.
I have been working with IEEE on the Global Humanitarian Technology Conference.
It will be in Silicon Valley this year. You can access the conference at
www.ieeeghtc.org
There is also a regional conference in Kerala, India in August.
I thought you might like to share this with your cohorts.
Best regards,
Jim Miller
ATTACHMENT
II
From: Peter Knight <ptknight@gmail.com>
Subject: Good to hear about you from Jim
Date: February 15, 2013 3:07:41 PM EST
To: Takeshi Utsumi <takutsumi0@gmail.com>
Cc: Jim Miller <JIMMSL@aol.com>
Tak,
Zaida and I are now living about 8 months a year in
Rio de Janeiro.
Tapio Varis has been
teaching in the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.
Hope this finds you well.
Best regards,
Peter
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