Open Seminar

[ICTP info point]

Open seminar on

ICTP RESEARCH ON DIGITAL LECTURES: YOUR TALKS
DELIVERED TO A MILLION SCIENTISTS

by C. Fonda, M. Zennaro and E. Canessa

Venue: MB Room D, Thursday 15 March at 10:30 hrs

The Science Dissemination Unit of ICTP has developed a new technology 
to archive and share scientific lectures and to multiply their 
audiences at no cost for the activity.

The system is innovative: it is completely automated, non-intrusive, 
low-cost and allows the recording of lectures with audio and video 
without human intervention. Projected slides, or chalkboard notes, are 
automatically grabbed and synchronized with the video, resulting in a 
high quality learning experience for the remote audience. Most 
important though, Lecturers are not disturbed by any special technical 
constraints. The digital lectures are made accessible via Web or 
through CD/DVD.

In this seminar, the potentiality of the system will be shown. An open 
discussion on possible strategies to implement it fully at ICTP for 
Workshops, Seminars and the Diploma Course will follow.

The system can be seen as a concrete example of helping to bridge the 
knowledge divide in developing countries and across the north-south 
divide.

Everyone is most welcome to attend!


Anne Gatti
Director's Office
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Strada Costiera 11
I-34100 Trieste
Italy
Tel:  +39 040 2240251
Fax: + 39 040 2240410
e-mail: gatti at ictp.it