<<September 17, 1999>>
Dr. Thomas J. Keil <Thomas.Keil@asu.edu>
Dr. Andrey S. Narvsky <narvsky@astrive.com>
Mr. Myron Nordquist <myron_nordquist@burns.senate.gov>
Kimberly K. Obbink <kobbink@montana.edu>
(1) Dear Tom:
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Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).
I am very glad to hear of your highly successful web broadcasting.
Congratulations!! This technology will certainly take over
expensive
analog or digital satellite broadcasting, and that is why
many
industries are now scrambling to it.
We (my wife and I) once visited Heard Museum in Phoenix
a couple of
years ago. It is certainly a very good one.
You may contact Andrey Narvsky, since he has done a virtual
gallery of
Hermitage Museum in St.Petersburg, Russia. He demonstrated
it with a
CD-ROM with 3D images of rotating, glittering cathedrals
at our Tampere
event. It also has a walk-through of the museum, and you
can click on a
paint to see in a large frame and to find out its history
and so on.
Dear Andrey:
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Your web has been changed. I cannot access to your
page on the
Hermitage Museum. Pls let me know when you made its
English
version.
(2) If you have a broadband (say, 45 Mbps) Internet (at least
among state
universities in your Arizona), you can be sure to get better
audio and
video quality.
If you particularly want to provide such service to Native
American's
reservations in the remote parts of your Arizona, you would
need the
broadband Internet.
Myron Nordquist indicated me a similar interest to connect
such
reservations in Montana (7 of them).
Dear Kim:
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Many thanks for the map of the reservations.
Two
reservations around Billings may be the first target
to try
the wireless approach.
As you know, Senator McCain of Arizona (now a presidential
candidate) is the Chairman of Appropriation Committee.
Senator
Conrad Burns of Montana (whom Myron works) is its Vice
Chairman
whose name is with Burns Telecommunications Center (BTC)
at the
Montana State University in Bozeman. The BTC is now
being
directed by Kimberly K. Obbink.
Myron and Kim indicated me their interest to connect their
Native
Americans' reservations in Montana with broadband Internet.
I wonder if your side in Arizona could have a similar
plan, and if so,
wouldn't you hook up with Montana reservations?
I am interested in those projects since their remote locations
can be a
test bed of implementing wireless broadband Internet which
know-how may
become exportable to many developing countries later on.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 19:48:15 -0700
From: Thomas Keil <Thomas.Keil@asu.edu>
Subject: RE: Proposed Outline of Global University System Structure
To: "'Takeshi Utsumi'" <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Tak, I am sorry I did not see your note until it was too late.
It contained
the information on the address of our first live broadcast of
a concert
from our campus via the web. It went well, even though we did
not have our
high speed server in place. This technology is going to be a great
boon to
our arts department and to other academic departments as well.
Among other
things, we are going to broadcast all of our guest lecturers in
our Arts and
Sciences Lecture series. I want to set up a web-broadcasting network
among
the state universities here in Arizona, once we have developed
a bit more
expertise and technological know-how. I will keep you informed
about our
efforts as they develop. One of the things I am especially interested
in is
working with the Heard Museum in Phoenix, it is the country's
leading museum
on North American indigenous people. I want to develop a virtual
gallery for
them so that people out on the reservations in the remote parts
of the state
will be able to log on and see some of the major artifacts of
their culture.
We also want to do broadcasting to the reservations in conjunction
with the
museum. We think we might be able to get some funding for these
two
initiatives.
-----Original Message-----
From: Takeshi Utsumi [mailto:utsumi@columbia.edu]
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 7:27 PM
To: Thomas Keil
Cc: utsumi@www.friends-partners.org
Subject: RE: Proposed Outline of Global University System Structure
Dear Tom:
(1) Sorry I could not open your attachment.
(2) Pls send it again -- if you attach your file as clicking
ATTACH icon
on your browser, it should do it.
(3) Otherwise, pls send its ASCII version.
Thanks in advance.
Best, Tak
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On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Thomas Keil wrote:
> Sender: Thomas Keil <Thomas.Keil@asu.edu>
> Subject: RE: Proposed Outline of Global University System
Structure
>
> Tak, thanks for the connection you gave me when I requested
information on
> setting up a web broadcasting capability. We are doing our
first broadcast
> tomorrow at 6 PM eastern standard time. I have enclosed an
announcement
> for you. We all are a little anxious and are hoping it goes
well. We see a
> great educational potential in all of this. My best, Tom
Keil
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List of Distribution
Dr. Thomas J. Keil
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Arizona State University West
Phoenix.
Thomas.Keil@asu.edu
Dr. Andrey S. Narvsky
Head of the Department of Multimedia and Distance Education
of St.Petersburg State Marine Technical University
General Director of Lanck Software Ltd.
3 Lotsmanskaya street
St.Petersburg, 190008
Russia
ph +7-812-325-8146
fax +7-812-157-2455
narvsky@astrive.com
asn@lanck.ru
www.lanck.ru
Mr. Myron Nordquist
Legislative Counsel
U.S. Senator Conrad Burns' Office
187 Dirksen Senate Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-2603
202-224-6808
Fax: 202-224-8594
Cell: 301-646-8153
myron_nordquist@burns.senate.gov
http://www.senate.gov/~burns/
804-924-7573 -- at the U. of VA.
Fax: 804-982-2622 -- at the U. of VA.
Kimberly K. Obbink
Director
Burns Telecommunications Center and Extended Studies
Montana State University
128 EPS Building
Bozeman, MT 59717-3860
406-994-6550
406-994-5681 (direct)
Fax: 406-994-7856
kobbink@montana.edu
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