Center For Collaborative
Technologies At The
University Of Washington
Richard Anderson, Fred Videon
University of Washington
Paul Oka
Microsoft Research
External Research and Programs
Announcement Of The Center
The Center for Collaborative Technologies at the University of
Washington will develop the ConferenceXP platform, apply the
technologies to a wide range of educational and collaborative
scenarios, and strengthen the educational and research
communities that use these collaboration tools.
The Center has been funded by Microsoft Research External
Research and Programs for a period of three years.
The Center is a collaboration between members of the University of
Washington’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the
Pacific Northwest Gigapop, and the ResearchChannel.
A Brief History Of ConferenceXP
Project began at MSR in 2001 as DISC
Initial deployment for
distance learning Spring 2002
Successful deployment for
distance learning, Spring 2003
2004-2005 MSR ConferenceXP RFPs funded
First 4-way distance learning
deployment Autumn 2004
November 2006, CXP 4.0 released
2002
2003
ConferenceXP Scenarios
High-quality, realtime collaboration
Highly interactive
distributed learning
Active learning in
wireless-enabled
classrooms
Real-Time Collaboration
ConferenceXP Client
High-quality multipoint conferencing
Full-screen, real-time video at 30 fps
Built-in presentation capability,
whiteboard & screen sharing
Distributed Learning
4-way Distributed Classroom
Quarter-length
classes between UW,
UCSD, UC Berkeley,
and MSR
Met the originally stated
goal for ConferenceXP
Courses
2004: Public Policy
2005: Cyber Security
2006: History of
Computing
Cross-cultural Business School Course
University of Massachusetts, Amherst and University of Ireland, Galway
Australian School Of The Air
Australian Northern Territories Education Department
Live, Distributed Musical Performances
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Moscow State University
omniMusic Application
Engineering Design Sketching
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
InkBoard Application
Current Release
ConferenceXP 4.0
Support for .NET 2.0
VS 2005
Improved support for a
wide range of cameras
Venue Service 4.0
Archiver 4.0
Reflector 4.0
ConferenceXP 4.1
Support of localization
Extract strings to a resource file
Initial Languages
Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish
Vista Support
The Future of ConferenceXP
CCT projects
Security and Access Control
Reliability, Diagnostics,
and Management improvements
Developing World Scenarios
High Definition Video integration
What Are The Benefits Of A Community
Based, Shared Source Platform?
Provides a great platform for
research in collaborative environments
APIs designed for extensibility
.Net Framework shortens development cycle
Includes rich AV device support
Provides a proven platform for
distance learning and distributed meetings
Existing tools support integrated TabletPC
based presentation, archiving and integrated
archive playback
Planned CXP Work
Access Control and Security
Integration with emerging federated
inter-realm identity management
frameworks such as Shibboleth and OpenID
Real-time stream encryption
Reliability
Bandwidth scaling to
support heterogeneous
network and system capabilities
Automated failover
Planned CXP Work (cont.)
Diagnostics
Real-time holistic conference
status discovery and reporting
Conference Management and Scheduling
Integration with existing scheduling systems
Dynamic generation of virtual meeting spaces
Node Management
Asynchronous and
Remote operation
Automated window placement
Planned CXP Work (cont.)
New educational scenarios
(including developing world)
Single-machine lecture archiver
Support for asynchronous use of video
Adjustable bandwidth requirements
High Definition Video
Low-latency VC-1 encoding
Deployments With Impact
UW Professional Masters Program
Conducted distance learning classes
between up to 4 classrooms each term
since Spring 2002
Currently running at a high
level of quality and reliability
New directions
Support for WWAMI Distance education
International courses
Maintaining And
Building Community
What are the next steps for
the ConferenceXP Community?
Codeplex
Microsoft’s open source project hosting
website: http://www.codeplex.com
Supports web-based source
control similar to cvs and svn
ConferenceXP and related projects are
available in source & binary distributions
http://www.codeplex.com/ConferenceXP
Community Resources
CCT Website/Wiki
cct.cs.washington.edu
MS ConferenceXP Site
www.conferencexp.net
Email List
cct-announce
Contact us:
Richard Anderson: anderson@cs.washington.edu
Fred Video:
fred@cs.washington.edu
ConferenceXP Seminar
Seminar style public ConferenceXP
sessions to address a variety of topics
of interest to the community
Schedule and topics TBD
If you are interested in participating,
contact Richard Anderson
(anderson@cs.washington.edu)
Call To Action
We are looking for
feedback on CXP features
See the wiki
Participate in forums and CXP seminar
Use ConferenceXP!
Let us know how you are using it
Source code available on CodePlex
Community development of CXP
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