TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. MISSION AND DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE

1.1 THE BERKELEY MULTIMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER MISSION
1.2 DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE

2. SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

2.1 DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATION & CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
2.2 UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
2.3 PUBLICATIONS (TABLE A-2)

3. PERSONNEL

3.1 CORE ADMINISTRATION (TABLE A-3)
3.2 BMRC STEERING COMMITTEE
3.3 RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS (TABLE A-4)
3.4 GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS (TABLE A-5)

APPENDIX A (COMPLETE LIST OF SUPPORTED PROJECTS)

SHOWCASED PROJECTS
PUBLIC EVENTS
BIBS COURSES/FACULTY AND AFFILIATIONS
MISCELLANEOUS SUPPORTED PROJECTS, INCLUDING COURSES
HUMANITIES AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECT

REFERENCES

1. MISSION AND DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE

1.1 THE BERKELEY MULTIMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER MISSION

The Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC) at the University of California, Berkeley, is an interdisciplinary group of artists, educators, professionals, and scientists who are experimenting with interactive multimedia technology in professional practice, scholarship, and education. Founded in 1995, the Center is active in building partnerships with the academic community and industry. BMRC is funded through contributions from industrial partners, grants from public and private organizations, and discretionary UC Berkeley campus funding. Our work focuses on four areas:

Multimedia Authoring

BMRC researchers are developing an authoring environment that integrates asset management and streaming content with hypertext documents and computer mediated interactions, using both new and existing tools and focusing on adaptation of computer science research tools to broader multimedia applications. BMRC projects are creating a number of hypermedia titles using novel paradigms of content representation. We also co-develop multimedia content with UC Berkeley faculty members as part of ongoing research initiatives and projects to create advanced learning environments.

Teaching and Learning

One aim is to develop and study interactive hypermedia courseware, distance learning models, and new classroom and working environments. We are creating tools for distance learning and high quality Internet video broadcasting. Other areas of investigation include the effectiveness of learner-centered courseware and groupware for collaborative learning and problem solving.

Infrastructure

BMRC is developing systems to support storage and delivery of digital media objects (e.g., documents, images, audio, video, and animation) on the UC Berkeley campus. The Center runs a high-speed network for access to multimedia content and is deploying a very large digital media storage system. We provide facilities for multimedia authoring and servers for hosting multimedia web content. Access to these facilities is provided to the campus community through the BMRC supported project program. We are also developing facilities to support live and on-demand streaming of digital audio and video on the campus Internet.

Public Programs

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1.2 DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE

"We live in interesting times." This quote certainly understates the rapid changes being unleashed by the Internet and information technology (IT) on all aspects of our life - from entertainment to business and education. In the higher education sector, increasing enrollments and demand for university education by an increasingly diverse student population suggests we need to think carefully about changing the way we deliver education. We must have two goals: 1) improve the quality of education delivered, and 2) improve the efficiency of delivery. BMRC has taken a leading role in experimenting with new applications of information technology for teaching and research. This report summarizes this research and suggests directions for future investigation.

BMRC activities are divided into four major areas: distributed collaboration, multimedia authoring, infrastructure development, and campus and public service. Our research on distributed collaboration has focused on distance/asynchronous learning, although the technology being developed and experiments being conducted will be applicable to other types of collaboration. Examples are distributed research group meetings, remote operation of equipment, and interactive virtual experiences. We are working with the assumption that what is currently possible for broadcast television production (which produces single stream non-interactive programming) will ultimately be replaced by Internet and computer technologies to produce richer interactive experiences at lower cost. The use of the Internet for audio/video delivery is becoming almost commonplace as bandwidth constraints are overcome. Some media pundits are even predicting that future television delivery, which now depends on wireless broadcast, satellite, or cable delivery, will ultimately move to the Internet with its potential for interactive communication. BMRC is conducting research on this new vision for interactive programming.

The most exciting research activity we have pursued this past year is the development, deployment, and evaluation of streaming media for education and research. Our work began in January, 1995, when we began webcasting seminars worldwide on the Internet. Since that time, BMRC continues to produce Internet webcasts. We have acquired and installed the equipment required to produce live webcasts for classes on campus and record them for on-demand replay. We built a broadcast system to manage the production of these webcasts, which is called the Berkeley Internet Broadcast System, or BIBS for short. The interactive webcasts incorporate audio and video that viewers can watch on their desktop computer. The seminar webcasts were extremely popular and demonstrated the potential technology that many public and private organizations will use for distance and asynchronous learning. Our experiment with campus courses began in Fall 1998 and continues to the present. The idea is to capture the lectures so that students can watch them later to review the material and discover material missed during the live presentation. The goal is to improve education for our own students, although the potential for using webcasts for distance/asynchronous learning students is obvious.

Our experience with a diversity of large undergraduate classes in Fall 1999, including Astronomy 10, Chemistry 1A, IDS 110, and CS61A-C, has been an especially valuable experiment. In cooperation with the Office of Media Services, we used BIBS to webcast lectures in classes enrolling more than 3,000 students. During the Spring 2000 semester we will webcast ten campus courses. The feedback from students and faculty has been overwhelmingly positive, although important issues remain to be investigated. Our discussions with many people on campus suggest that the BIBS technology and research will be an important component of future distance learning programs. Today, Berkeley teaches several sections of Chemistry 1A each semester to roughly a thousand students. Perhaps a future scenario is that classes such as these might be offered to even more students remotely who, along with a local tutor, will study the material as developed and taught at Berkeley. These technologies may thus offer a partial solution to the imminent influx of "Tidal Wave II" students.

A significant part of our research is the evaluation of BIBS on student learning, faculty teaching, and course design. We are still analyzing the data collected from the experiment in Fall 1999. This data includes the costs of delivering webcasts, student feedback through survey instruments, and access logs from the computer systems. Another important experiment we plan to conduct is to offer webcast courses to concurrently enrolled students who register through UC Berkeley Extension. We received Academic Senate approval to conduct this experiment in the Spring 2000 but did not have enough time to advertise and enroll remote students. We plan to conduct a similar experiment in the Fall 2000. This experiment marks an exciting phase that couples our research on new technologies with new institutional models to deliver quality education at a distance. We expect the results of these ongoing evaluations and experiments to continue to assist University of California administrators and faculty in the development of strategic models for providing high quality education both on-site and at a distance.

Another component of our focus on distributed collaboration is multimedia authoring. BMRC has contributed to the development of websites that experiment with new media, and we have developed technology to simplify the construction of multimedia content. For example, a reader was developed for Intermediate Hindi that included spoken versions of Hindi texts and text translations keyed to the audio clips. Another example is a search interface to a database of short video demonstrations that allows a user to query and browse the database, watch the videos and read the related publications, and construct custom galleries of selected clips for replay in a lecture or by students on-demand. This on-line database replaced a collection of fifteen videotapes that were difficult to search and use in classes. We also developed the technology used to produce lecture replays with synchronized audio and video, web pages to manage production and archiving of class lectures, and a citation database with information and resources on higher education. These titles and more are described in the body of the report.

An important aspect of our future research will be to solve the problem of improving the tools for capturing media material and reusing it. For example, we do not have a convenient way to capture an indexed list of students' questions and answers, whether it is during class, in office hours, or in response to email questions, which can be used by other students. Many times an instructor answers the same question again and again as one student after another raises a question. This simple example illustrates the idea of producing rich multimedia content from live material that is one approach to reducing the cost of developing content. Our research goal is to create tools for developing content that are easy for instructors and students to use. Only by making these tools so easy to use that anyone can use them, much the way everyone uses a word processor or the web, will the cost of producing rich multimedia content be significantly reduced.

BMRC acts as a campus consultant on complex multimedia problems, including the dissemination of important campus events. BMRC has captured and published several public forums including a symposium on "Higher Education in the 21st Century" held in celebration of Chancellor Robert Berdahl's inauguration, a symposium on the "University Loyalty Oath - a 50th anniversary retrospective," and a symposium on "Biotechnology at 25." In each of these cases, BMRC captured the live event and authored websites that contained indexed versions of the video presentations for on-demand replay. We also help faculty and researchers solve the technical dilemmas they encounter in myriad campus projects and courses that involve digital media. For example, our work has included the synchronization of audio and slides in Hubert Dreyfus' philosophy course, the integration of graphics and audio in Carolyn Merchant's environmental history course, assisting graduate students in posting audio versions of medieval songs and manuscripts, and posting a video press release of anthropologist Tim White's latest hominid fossil discovery for the Public Affairs office. A complete description of these projects and the campus units with which we have worked are located in APPENDIX A.

In addition to our service to the campus in the form of consultation on distributed collaboration and multimedia authoring, BMRC produces and sponsors a variety of public programs. The BMRC retreat is an annual conference at which speakers from on- and off-campus present innovative applications of technology and engage in panels and discussions about the impact of new media technologies on education and research. Other public events that BMRC supports include the "Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium" and the "Berkeley Multimedia, Interfaces, and Graphics Seminar."

All research in the area of distributed collaboration and multimedia authoring, as well as support for campus projects, depends on the development and deployment of a robust and complex technical infrastructure. The infrastructure includes computer networks, computing systems, audio/video equipment, and software. Developing and deploying new technologies is impossible without the appropriate infrastructure. BMRC dedicates considerable resources to experimenting with and evaluating new technologies. The challenge is to assess the potential impact of these new technologies and deploy the ones that most efficiently solve our problems. BMRC operates the BMRCNet that links computers in classrooms, laboratories, and machine rooms in four buildings on campus. We also support a variety of services including web, database, streaming media, and file servers, classroom audio/video equipment, and laboratories for audio/video digitizing, compression, and web editing. BMRC will continue to experiment with the infrastructure required for distributed collaboration. Today, with the exception of classrooms that BMRC has designed and outfitted, relatively few classrooms on campus are equipped for webcasting and interaction with remote participants. Demand for video conferencing and collaboration from various departments and groups on campus suggests that we need to outfit perhaps as many as half the classrooms with this technology. Many challenges remain. How can you deploy this technology wisely? What should be deployed? How much will it cost? And most importantly, how can the complexity and cost of operation be minimized?

Technology is changing rapidly as new innovations and computer software are developed. Successful deployment of these technologies requires that we experiment continuously with audio/video equipment, and computer hardware, software, and algorithms. BMRC continues to play an important role in evaluating new technologies and deploying them on campus.

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2. SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

This section covers research activities in Distributed Collaboration, Multimedia Content Authoring, Image-board Lighting, the Humanities and Technology Project, and the Higher Education in the Digital Age on-line database.

2.1 DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATION & CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

Distributed collaboration includes any technology developed to support group interactions where participants are at different locations or different times. Examples are research conferences, class lectures, or group project meetings. BMRC researchers are developing the technology to build distributed collaboration applications, deploying these technologies to conduct experiments, and analyzing the results of these experiments. In addition, BMRC installs and operates audio/video equipment, computer systems, and networks as part of this research.

An important experiment begun this year is webcasting large undergraduate class lectures for live viewing and on-demand replay. The focus of this experiment is to assess the impact lecture webcasting has on students and instructors. BMRC developed and deployed the Berkeley Internet Broadcasting System (BIBS) to support this experimentation.

The remainder of this section describes the system developed, the research conducted, and the physical infrastructure deployed to support this effort.

2.1.a.(i) Berkeley Internet Broadcasting System (BIBS)

Professor Rowe and his students have webcast a regularly scheduled seminar, The Berkeley Multimedia, Interfaces, and Graphics Seminar (MIG Seminar), worldwide on the Internet since January 1995. The live seminar is watched by up to 200 remote viewers depending on the quality of the speaker and the condition of the Internet. Professor Landay used the same technology to introduce and experiment with distributed collaboration problems and opportunities when he taught a graduate seminar in Fall 1998 titled "Computer-Supported Collaborative Work Using Computer-Supported Collaborative Work" ("CSCW Using CSCW").

We decided to webcast more classes beginning in the Fall 1998 semester as a result of these positive experiences. The original intent was to apply software we developed for the MIG Seminar to more webcasts. In addition, we wanted to experiment with distributed collaboration tools for regular classes. While many universities are experimenting with distance learning technology as a vehicle to increase revenues by reuse of course content, our goal was to improve educational delivery for Berkeley students. A complete list of BIBS courses can be found in APPENDIX A.

Several courses on campus are already being video taped for a variety of reasons (e.g., instructor request, asynchronous learning initiatives, student access, etc.). We believe on-demand replay from a student's computer will increase the use of this material because it is easier to access than to walk across campus to watch a video at the library. The idea was to replace some note taking during a lecture with the opportunity to review lecture material on-line. Too often students are worried about taking accurate notes rather than understanding the lecture and discussion. Note taking services, like Black Lightening Notes, are a traditional contributor to student study material. Webcasting that allows student notes to be linked with lecture replays offers new opportunities for creating study and learning material. In addition, many students request copies of the instructor's lecture material - either raw notes or polished presentations. On-demand replay of lectures with high quality capture of the presentation material may reduce the cost and effort required to provide students with more than just a copy of the notes.

The infrastructure required to produce webcasts was added to more classrooms, and BIBS was developed to capture and manage the stored lectures. BIBS is composed of a program guide that lists available classes, indexes to captured lectures, downloadable software for viewing lectures on-demand, and links to class websites. Figure 1 shows the program guide for Spring 2000. Users select a class that displays a list of archived lectures by date and title. An example for Chemistry 1A is shown in Figure 2. A seminar listing shows the speaker and title on the lecture page as illustrated in Figure 3. Selecting a seminar displays a page with detailed information about the seminar as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 1: BIBS Program Guide
Figure 1: BIBS Program Guide



Figure 2: Chemistry 1A Lecture Archive
Figure 2: Chemistry 1A Lecture Archive



Figure 3: MIG Seminar Web Page
Figure 3: MIG Seminar Web Page



Figure 4: Web Page for a Seminar Announcement
Figure 4: Web Page for a Seminar Announcement



An archived lecture may include several copies of the material. These copies can include the use of different webcasting technologies (e.g., Internet Mbone, Real Networks, etc.), copies coded at different bit rates, and different versions of the lectures (e.g., with or without synchronized slides). This flexibility allows us to produce content that can be viewed by many students while at the same time supporting the research and experimentation goals of BMRC. A web-based editing interface and automated tools for capturing lectures and establishing links from the program guide to the lectures minimizes the effort required to produce and maintain the archive.

Another important feature of BIBS is the support for access restrictions. Some instructors want their lectures to be available to anyone in the world, while other instructors want to restrict access either to the Berkeley community or to just students enrolled in the class. Currently, the system supports mechanisms to limit access to users in the Berkeley Internet domain (i.e., host names that end with "berkeley.edu") unless the instructor gives permission to publish the lectures worldwide. We are implementing the mechanisms required to use the authentication services being developed at Berkeley and UCOP that will allow finer grain access controls with minimal effort.

The Berkeley Internet Broadcast System has been used since Fall 1998 to produce lecture webcasts for undergraduate and graduate classes. Table 1 shows the number of courses webcast and the total number of students enrolled in those classes for each semester. The reduction in the number of classes webcast in Spring 1999 was caused by the unexpected loss of BMRC research students and staff to industry. BMRC and the Office of Media Services (OMS) produced lecture webcasts for several large undergraduate classes beginning in the Fall 1999 semester including: Astronomy 10, Chemistry 1A, Computer Science 61A and Interdepartmental Studies 110.

Semester Number of Classes Total Enrollment
Fall 1998 7 283
Spring 1999 3 1017
Fall 1999 8 2897
Spring 2000 10 2960

Table 1: Class Enrollments for Webcast Courses by Semester


Figure 5 shows several screen shots of the lectures. Figure 5a shows two examples of Chemistry 1A lectures - one shows the instructor, Professor Alex Pines, and the second shows the boards he uses during the lecture. These lectures use Real Networks technology. Figure 5b shows a MIG Seminar webcast that uses Internet Mbone technology. Notice that the MIG Seminar lecture shows two video streams. We strongly believe that lectures must include two or more video streams so the lecturer, the presentation material, and other relevant content (e.g., notes, demonstrations, animations, etc.) can be viewed simultaneously. We are working on the infrastructure and technology that will allow us to produce multiple stream webcasts using Real Networks technology.

Figure 5a: MIG Seminar Example
Figure 5a: MIG Seminar Example



Figure 5b: Two examples from Chemistry 1A Figure 5b: Two examples from Chemistry 1A
Figure 5b: Two examples from Chemistry 1A

Figure 5: Examples of Lecture Replays

The Real Networks streaming media server used for the large undergraduate classes supports 100 concurrent players including both live and on-demand replay. Several times during the Fall 1999 semester, the server was busy as 100 people were watching lectures and other streaming media content.

Dr. Diane Harley, Executive Director at BMRC, gathered considerable data from the Fall 1999 classes including:

  1. student surveys that solicited information about student awareness of the lecture webcasts, usage, and effectiveness, and
  2. server access logs that show when users played various videos.

We continue to analyze the data, but several trends are already obvious:

  1. Students primarily use the lectures for on-demand replay and review rather than watching live webcasts. The ability to review lectures, by replaying segments with particularly difficult concepts, was viewed as a very positive feature by students.
  2. Many students and instructors find this service invaluable. After webcasting the large undergraduate classes in Fall 1999, a large number of students were anxious to know whether additional courses would be webcast in future semesters.
  3. Many students reported that they watched on-line lectures in groups and used this time to discuss lecture material.
  4. Some instructors express concerns that lecture attendance will suffer.

More details on the impact of this technology will be published in a forthcoming report.

Webcasting experiments will continue in future semesters as long as funding is available. An important analysis we are doing on the Fall experiment is to calculate cost models for producing these webcasts. In addition to evaluating student and faculty response to this new technology, we are working with faculty to improve the quality of the captured material, to automate the construction of keyword search indexes, and to synchronize notes taken by a student during a lecture with the on-demand video replay. We are also exploring reverse channel and question board technology so remote students can ask questions and interact with other students in the class. Lastly, we must incorporate more support for the instructor to see the remote participants, which is called "sense of presence" in the CSCW literature. Some of the tools BMRC has developed to produce these webcasts are described in the next section. Following that section, the infrastructure that was installed and continues to be operated by BMRC to support this research is described.

2.1.a.(ii) Distributed Collaboration Research and Tools Development

This section describes research conducted by several faculty members on various technologies and applications related to distributed collaboration.

  1. Receiver-driven Layered Multicast (RLM): Professors James Landay, Steven McCanne and Lawrence Rowe and their students have been developing the technology, systems, and applications to support distributed collaboration. Professor McCanne's dissertation research developed the idea of Receiver-driven Layered Multicast (RLM). Using RLM, a media source distributes a hierarchical signal by striping the constituent layers across several multicast sessions. Receivers adjust their reception rate by simply joining and leaving the appropriate multicast sessions. RLM can be used with a layered video compression algorithm to solve the problem of scalable multicast video transmission on heterogeneous networks [McCanne96, McCanne97b]. Professors McCanne and Rowe also solved some of the administrative and operational problems encountered when trying to deploy RLM in a heterogeneous network. The biggest problem was assigning addresses to the different multicast groups on which the layered video packets are transmitted. The goal was to allow administratively scoped addresses to be assigned so that participants in the same domain could transmit multiple layers even though the session was created and announced from a different domain. A paper describing a solution that also supported caching of session announcements won the Best Student Paper Award at ACM Multimedia 98 [Swan98].

     

  2. Mash Multimedia-Networking Middleware Toolkit: Working with other faculty and students, Professor McCanne developed the Mash Multimedia-Networking Middleware Toolkit that is used by researchers at Berkeley and elsewhere to develop distributed collaboration applications based on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards for multicast communication [McCanne97b]. This system incorporates code from the Internet Mbone Tools developed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories (LBL) and other research laboratories (e.g. sdr, vic, vat, rat, etc.). NSF funding was recently received to establish an open source consortium to continue the development of the Mash software.

     

  3. NotePals: Professor Landay is developing tools to support note taking using personal digital assistants and to augment and share that information [Landay99]. NotePals is a lightweight meeting support system that automatically combines individuals' meeting notes into a shared meeting record. NotePals notes are taken in digital ink, which frees group members from having to learn shorthand or correct handwriting recognition. After a meeting, group members dock their PDA's with the personal computer on their desktops, and the notes are uploaded to a central web server where the group can view the shared notes. In addition, notes are time-stamped so they can be synchronized with other media captured during a meeting or lecture.

     

  4. Professor Rowe is developing a variety of tools to support webcast production and authoring of multimedia content including:

     

    • Broadcast Manager (bmgr): this tool automates the production of a broadcast [Wu99]. A typical broadcast requires that many processes be started on different machines with appropriate parameters. Prior to developing this tool, a broadcast engineer had to enter commands by hand to initiate the processes, which was time-consuming and error-prone. The Broadcast Manager stores configurations in a database and launches the required processes either on-demand or at a scheduled time.

       

    • Question Board (qb): this tool is a shared floor-control system designed for a lecture/seminar setting in which local and remote people want to ask questions [Malpani97]. The tool allows a user to enter a question using text or request the floor to ask a question. Text questions can be visible to all participants, private to the speaker, or anonymous.

       

    • Lecture Browser: this tool allows a user to view both the presentation material (e.g., slides, whiteboard, etc.) and the speaker during a presentation. In addition, the browser allows the user to step through the slides or search using a keyword index to locate where a particular topic is discussed. Content for the browser is captured automatically during a live presentation. BMRC researchers are working on tools to automatically generate the keyword indexes using speech-to-text conversion of a lecture audio track.

       

    • Software-only Parallel Video-Effects Systems: this system implements traditional video-effects (e.g., fades, titling, picture-in-picture, chromakey, etc.) using software on a Network-of-Workstations [Meyer-Patel98, Meyer-Patel99a, Meyer-Patel99b, Wong98]. One important technique for improving the quality of a webcast or video program is to incorporate multiple cameras and special effects. Conventional hardware approaches used in the broadcast television industry can be improved upon by using software on commodity hardware. Performance constraints dictate the use of parallel processing.

       

    • Carousel Video Tool: this authoring tool is designed to allow an end-user to author web page video galleries. A video gallery web page has key frames and other information about a video presented in a one- or two-dimensional tabular layout. Users can view the collection and play selected videos by clicking on the key frame. With Carousel a user can quickly create web pages to access and display existing video content. Users can access a variety of templates and settings using dialogs and other GUI elements to create their custom video gallery pages. The system eliminates the complexity involved in handling a variety of different video formats.

       

    • Director's Console (dc): this tool allows a remote person to control one or more live programs from a remote console [Yu99]. The Director's Console supports remote control over what video sources are broadcast (e.g., speaker or audience camera, scan-converted computer display, document camera, VCR, etc.) and other control information (e.g., bitrate allocated to the different video streams in a program, lighting, etc.). The tool is designed to configure a GUI interface for a room using a discovery protocol that identifies the equipment in the room and to reduce the complexity of producing the broadcasts.

      Figure 6 shows the architecture for a typical Internet Mbone webcast. This example illustrates the complexity of producing a webcast that is composed of two or more video streams and uses well-known broadcast television techniques (e.g., titling, transitions between multiple sources, etc.). You can see that the webcast uses video streams from many sources: some local to the studio classroom (e.g., speaker camera, presentation computer, VCR, etc.) and others from remote participants (e.g., to ask questions, give demonstrations, etc.). In addition, the webcasting system has other digital sources (e.g., archived material or the output of the parallel video effects system). All audio and video sources are sent to the studio multicast session. The director's console provides the producer/director an interface to select one or more streams for inclusion in the webcast. These streams are sent to the broadcast session. Figure 7 shows the director's console during the production of a webcast. The MIG Seminar screen shot at the bottom of Figure 5 shows the user view of this webcast that is described in the seminar announcement in Figure 4.

       

      • Figure 6: Internet Mbone Webcast Architecture
      Figure 6: Internet Mbone Webcast Architecture



      Figure 7: Director's Console Interface
      Figure 7: Director's Console Interface



  5. Professor Zakhor and her students have been working on real-time delivery of unicast and multicast video over best-effort datagram networks like the Internet. Their approach for the unicast case is to combine a novel compression method that is error resilient and bandwidth scalable with a low-delay TCP-friendly transport protocol. Compressed video is packetized into individually decodable packets of equal visual importance. Consequently, relatively constant video quality can be achieved at the receiver under poor conditions. Packets can be truncated to instantaneously meet the time varying bandwidth imposed by a TCP-friendly transport protocol. As a result, streaming video applications produce adaptive flows that are friendly to other Internet traffic. Several papers have been published describing this work [Tan98, Tan99, Taubman96]. In addition, Professor Zakhor's group has been an active participant in the development of the MPEG4 coding standard [Al-Shaykh99, Neff97, Neff98].
2.1.a.(iii) Digital Media Infrastructure

BMRC acquired, installed, and continues to operate computer networks, servers, desktop computer systems, and audio/video equipment to support its research program. These facilities are used by faculty, students, and staff from many departments working on content authoring projects, research on video coding and transmission, content query, distance/asynchronous learning systems, and digital asset management systems. Considerable effort is required to evaluate new technologies, deploy them in the Berkeley environment, and manage them. This section briefly summarizes this infrastructure.

BMRC acquired, installed, and operates a high-speed network that links facilities in four buildings to a large digital media storage system. The backbone operates at 310 Mbs and connects servers and clients through switched 10/100 Mbs Ethernet border routers. The facilities connected to the network include storage servers located in three different machine rooms, media authoring workstations located in three laboratories, video-capture computers, which we call video gateways, located in three studio classrooms and two video control rooms, and desktop workstations in offices. The digital media storage system is composed of web servers, video file servers, a database server, and a tertiary storage server (TSS).

The digital media infrastructure is composed of 20 workstations, 10 servers, and 8 video gateways. The workstations include conventional desktop computers used by individual researchers and shared authoring systems. Some authoring systems are used to edit several media types (e.g., text, image, web pages, etc.) while other systems are dedicated to specific media types (e.g., non-linear video and audio editing systems). In addition, two computer modeling and animation workstations support SoftImage and 3D Studio Max. The servers provide file, database, and web storage. The media servers use Real Networks and Internet Mbone technology for live broadcasting and on-demand replay of streaming audio and video content. The streaming media servers provide approximately 500 Gigabytes of storage. A TSS is used to archive all material including files, databases, web pages, and media data. Lastly, the video gateways are used to capture live audio and video material from conventional audio/video devices (e.g., cameras, cable boxes, satellite receivers, VCR's, etc.). The gateways are located in several studio classrooms, the OMS broadcast center, and the BMRC machine room.

The BMRC Network supports high bandwidth communication between any of these computers. In addition, the network is connected to the new Tier2 campus backbone so other users can access these systems and BMRC researchers can access remote material over experimental networks (e.g., Internet2/CENIC). The BMRC network was instrumental in a high bandwidth video demonstration presented at the fall 1998 Internet2 meeting in San Francisco. A 25 Mbits/sec Sony DV stream was transmitted from Berkeley to the demonstration site where the material was displayed to the audience.

Studio Classrooms: The design, development, and operation of audio/video equipment, particularly in classrooms and conference rooms is an important BMRC activity. Distributed collaboration and distance/asynchronous learning require the installation of cameras, microphones, lighting, and other equipment into classrooms, which we call studio classrooms.

Only four classrooms on the Berkeley campus are adequately provisioned for distributed collaboration and distance/asynchronous learning. Two of these classrooms were created in the middle 1970's so the equipment and technology is outdated. Over the past five years several faculty have worked together to outfit a modern studio classroom in Soda Hall (Professors Agogino, Katz, Landay, McCanne, Rowe, and Zakhor). The equipment and systems in this classroom cost approximately $200,000. It has two video cameras (one positioned on the speaker and one on the audience), an overhead camera stand for transparencies, a VCR, and a scan converter for computer projected presentation material. It also has a wireless microphone for the speaker and three audience microphones with a mixer to control capture of audio material. Two video-capture computers allow two streams to be captured from the room as well as to project images of remote participants into the room. Lastly, the room has an AMX control system so the speaker can control the equipment. During the past two years, we also installed video gateways in two other heavily used classrooms (e.g., 1 Pimental and 203 McLaughlin).

BMRC invests considerable staff time and funds to test and deploy studio classroom technology. Many other researchers on campus want to develop similar facilities so they can use this exciting new technology. Unfortunately, the technology is changing rapidly so it is important to continue to experiment with new equipment and systems. The long-term goal is to develop models for the facilities required that can be installed through the campus. Cost effectiveness, both initial installation and on-going operation, is a primary concern.

2.1.b Multimedia Content Authoring

We have continued to increase and strengthen partnerships with UC Berkeley faculty in the production of high quality digital content. One of our goals is to support the development of innovative multimedia content with an emphasis on the use of streaming digital media. This content supports classroom instruction, research and campus outreach initiatives. BMRC researchers are developing innovative methods for organizing and distributing multimedia titles as well as developing titles themselves.

We spend considerable energy testing and evaluating a variety of streaming media solutions. We currently support two streaming media servers: the Real Networks G2 (RN/G2) server and the Mash Archive Server (MARS). The RN/G2 server is used for low and medium bitrate content that can be played everywhere, and the MARS server is used for distributed collaboration experiments with the Internet Mbone Tools.

Sample BMRC Projects: The following titles developed in 1998-99 provide some highlights. APPENDIX A provides a complete list of BMRC supported projects, which exceed 100 titles and courses from throughout the campus.

  • ACM SIGCHI Demonstration Video Archive : (Professors Landay and Rowe, EECS)

    This title allows a user to search a complete archive of the SIGCHI Demonstrations selecting videos to be arranged in a gallery (i.e., a one- or two-dimensional array with thumbnails, titles and other metadata) that can be used later to play the individual videos. It was designed so that an instructor can prepare a collection of videos from the archive for use in a class rather than having to carry a stack of videotapes to class.

  • Intermediate Hindi Reader: (Drs. John Lowe, Usha Jain with Karine Schomer, Linguistics )

    This title allows users to hear the spoken version of a Hindi text. The audio is delivered through the RealMedia platform through an interface that allows any portion of the text to be arbitrarily replayed. The ability to replay individual sentences and look up English translations in a glossary offers an effective method for learning a foreign language.

  • Conversations with History: (Harry Kreisler, IIS)

    BMRC continues to support Harry Kreisler's Globetrotter site at IIS by digitizing and posting video titles. These titles are composed of video segments from interviews with important figures in world affairs including UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Dr. Cho Son former Mayor of Seoul Korea, Sir Brian Urquhart UN Undersecretary General, and others. The segments can be viewed by speaker or by topics.

  • Biotechnology at 25: History, Science and Society: (Professor Charles Faulhaber and David Farrell, Bancroft Library)

    BMRC, with the Bancroft Library, created the "Bioscience and Biotechnology in History" website to showcase the LibraryÕs growing biotechnology archive. A subsection of the site is a prototype for integrating video, text, slides, and other graphics in a four field synchronized presentation. Our intent is to provide multiple linkages among The Bancroft Library's rich multimedia content (e.g. text, artifact, video, and audio archives). We experimented with Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) technology to present Professor Stanley Cohen's talk at the "Biotechnology at 25" symposium. Streaming video of the entire March 13, 1999 conference, which was captured by BMRC producers, is also available at this site in both Real and MPEG formats.

  • The Campanile Movie: (Dr. Paul Debevec, EECS)

    This movie was produced using computer graphics techniques from a model created from a series of still images. BMRC video editing facilities were used to produce the movie and later to digitize it for on-demand replay.

  • The Sound of 19th-Century California Sheet Music: (Professor Mary K. Duggan, IDS)

    This title presents sound and video files that can bring to web viewers an idea of authentic performances of the repertoire current in California during the 1850's. Sound and video files are translated to internet formats, with originals available in the Music Library of the University of California, Berkeley. A concert sponsored by Music Sources of Berkeley made up of instrumental and vocal performances of sheet music from the collection is available as video segments.

Public Events: BMRC provides video material from a variety of public events. Access to these events is greatly enhanced by the availability of this material on the web.

2.1.c Humanities and Technology Project

The Humanities and Technology Project: Integrating Technology into Humanities Teaching and Research (1996-1999) (http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/Humanities/) was supported for three years by the Dean of UC Berkeley Humanities, the Library, the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, the Center for Studies in Higher Education, and the Office of Educational Development. The project, directed by Dr. Diane Harley, was conceived as a model for integrating technology into humanities teaching and research. Results of the experiment have been presented at two international conferences. A final report, with recommendations for the future disposition of the program, was submitted to the Dean of Humanities in Fall 1999.

The following is a partial list of courses, faculty, graduate students, and Townsend Center programs supported in 1998-1999. A complete list can be found in APPENDIX A.


2.2 UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAMS AND EVENTS

BMRC continues to sponsor many university and public service programs and events. In addition to providing facilities and technical staff support to campus projects, we have sponsored:

  1. The Berkeley Multimedia, Interfaces, and Graphics Seminar
  2. The 1999 BMRC Retreat: Innovations in Interactive Teaching and Learning
  3. The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
  4. The BMRC Web Site

The programs for these events are described in more detail below.

Our 1999-2000 programs include the 5th Peder Sather Symposium to be held on March 9-10, 2000. This major international symposium, titled Higher Education in the Digital Age, is co-sponsored with the Center for Western European Studies, the Center for Studies in Higher Education, the Royal Norwegian Consulate General, San Francisco, the Swedish Consulate General, San Francisco, the Ministries of Education in Norway and Sweden, and the Institute of Governmental Studies, Additional support for travel is being provided by CHE-Bertelsmann, Germany, the Network Society Project, Finland, and the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, the Netherlands.

The two-day symposium will explore the impact of the new modes of knowledge generation, transmission, and assessment on institutions of higher education. Policy makers and scholars from the US, Canada and Europe, which will include high ranking representatives from the Ministries of Education from Norway and Sweden, as well as Rectors of many Scandinavian universities, will participate in this public forum. The program can be found at http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/satherconf5/

Throughout 1999-2000, we will provide a series investigating the educational policy issues facing research universities in relation to the development of new educational technologies and the emergence of diverse on-line learning environments. Speakers include Dr. Stephen Ehrmann, Director of the Flashlight Project and Vice President of the TLT group at the AAHE, and Professor James O'Donnell, Professor of Classical Studies and Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. We will also host a roundtable of UCB faculty from departments such as Chemistry, Astronomy, and Computer Science, who use the UCB Berkeley Internet Broadcast System (http://bmrc.berkeley.edu) in their teaching.

  1. Berkeley Multimedia, Interfaces, and Graphics Seminar

    This weekly seminar series includes speakers on advanced topics in multimedia and graphics. The seminar is broadcast on the Internet MBONE and as a Real Networks G2 broadcast.
    URL: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/courseware/cs298/

    Fall 1999

    8/25/99 The Berkeley MIG Seminar and Internet Broadcasting
    Lawrence A. Rowe, U.C. Berkeley

    9/1/99 Structured Audio: Algorithmic Sound for the Internet and Beyond
    John Wawrzynek, U.C. Berkeley

    9/8/99 The Bunny Production Management System for Animation and Visual Effects
    Jonathan Luskin, Franz Inc.

    9/15/99 The Analysis of Digital Mammograms
    Edward J. Delp, Purdue University

    9/22/99 VisualizeR: Software Architecture for a VR-Based Learning Environment
    Margaret Murray, U.C. San Diego

    9/29/99 An Opinionated View of the Current State of IP Differentiated Services
    Kathleen Nichols, Cisco Systems

    10/6/99 Resource Management in Operating Systems
    Timothy Roscoe, Sprint Communications

    10/20/99 New Approaches to Image Retrieval and Video Shot Boundary Detection
    Yihong Gong, NEC

    10/27/99 Supporting Multicast Services in the Emerging Internet2 Network Infrastructure The View from -6 Feet
    Ken Lindahl, U.C. Berkeley

    11/10/99 Application Outsourcing: The Next Big Thing on the Internet
    Peter Newman, Ensim Corporation

    11/17/99 Operational Multicast Network Management
    Radhika Malpani, HP Labs

    12/1/99 The Berkeley-MIT Citywalk Project: Towards Highly Interactive, Large-Scale Acquired Models
    Richard Bukowski, U.C. Berkeley

    Spring 1999

    1/20/99 Simplifying the Controls of an Interactive Movie Game
    Jeff Johnson, UI Wizards, Inc.

    2/10/99 Berkeley Internet Broadcasting System
    Lawrence A. Rowe, UC Berkeley

    3/3/99 Parallel Software-Only Video Effects Processing
    Ketan Mayer-Patel, UC Berkeley

    3/10/99 Technology and Accessibility
    Gary Robson, VITAC

    3/17/99 An Investigation into Web Site Design Practice
    Mark Newman, UC Berkeley

    3/31/99 How did IP Multicast Get So Complicated?
    Mark Handley, ACIRI

    4/7/99 An Architecture for a Global Internet Host Distance Estimation Service
    Sugih Jamin, U of Michigan

    4/14/99 Coding and Transport of Scalable Video
    Wai Tian Tan, U.C. Berkeley

    4/21/99 UC Common Authentication Project
    Vance Vaughan, UC Berkeley

    4/28/99 Why Understanding Anything About the Internet is Painfully Hard
    Vern Paxson, ACIRI

    Fall 1998

    8/26/98 Implementing an On-Demand Internet Streaming Media Business
    Dave Glazer, Eloquent

    9/2/98 Visualizing the Evolution of Web Ecologies
    Ed Chi, U. of Minnesota

    9/9/98 Using Middleware to Build Decentralized Multimedia Services
    Angela Schuett, UC Berkeley

    9/16/98 ICEBERG: From POTS to PANS
    Anthony Joseph, UC Berkeley

    9/23/98 Electronic Notebooks for Scientific Collaborative Work
    Sonia Sachs, LBNL

    9/30/98 Use What You Teach: Teaching CSCW Using CSCW Tools
    James Landay, UC Berkeley

    10/7/98 Electronic Books and Reading Appliances: Can Computers Help Us Read?
    Bill N. Schilit, FX Palo Alto Laboratory

    10/14/98 PRoPs: Towards Transparent Interfaces to the Real World
    Eric Paulos, UC Berkeley

    10/21/98 Indexing Rich Media Content across Large Scale Internet and Intranet WebSites
    Eric Hoffert, Magnifi, Inc.

    10/28/98 Why I like Working with Cable Networks - The View from @Home
    Milo Medin, @Home

    11/4/98 The Use of Documents in Offices
    Annette Adler, Xerox PARC

    11/11/98 Building a Platform for Online Education and Collaboration
    Anoop Gupta, Microsoft Research

    11/18/98 MPEG in the Real World: How MPEG-2 is used in the Cable and Broadcast Industry
    Steve Smoot, Imedia Inc.

    11/25/98 SIP - Signaling for Internet Telephony and Conferencing
    Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University

    12/2/98 Towards a Human-Centered Interaction Architecture
    Terry Winograd, Stanford University

  2. 1999 BMRC Retreat: Innovations in Interactive Teaching and Learning

    The 1999 BMRC Retreat, "Innovations in Interactive Teaching and Learning," was a huge success. The conference, held on January 13 and 14, brought together faculty, instructors, staff and of the university community to learn about and discuss uses of information technology and multimedia in the classroom. In addition, presentations covered recent initiatives on campus to improve computing and networking to better support educational technology. The retreat was open to all members of the university community including students and staff.

    Faculty members from various departments discussed experiences and innovations using new media. Various groups on campus participated, including:

    • Division of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, Graduate School of Education
    • Philosophy, University of Helsinki
    • Microsoft Corporation
    • Information Systems & Technology
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Executive Vice-Chancellor & Provost
    • Student Life-Educational Development
    • School of Information Systems and Management
    • Instructional Technology Program
    • Computing and Information Systems, Haas School of Business
    • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    • Center for Innovative Learning Technologies

    Wednesday evening a reception and dinner was held for regular faculty to continue discussions on the issues and ideas raised during the retreat. Dr. Stanley Chodorow, Chief Executive Officer California Virtual University led the discussions using the theme "The Role of Traditional Universities in the Information Age." Comments from the audience suggested that dramatic changes are occurring in higher education that will change the way formative education is delivered and the role of a modern university will continue to serve many conflicting audiences (e.g., corporations, state and national governments, citizens, and members of the university community).

    1999 BMRC Retreat Program: Innovations in Interactive Teaching and Learning

    Wednesday, January 13, 1999

    Welcome and Introductions

    Multimedia Content Development I
    • Moderator: Dr. Diane Harley (Executive Director, BMRC)
    • From Theory to Practice: The Design, Development, and Continuous Improvement of Computer mediated Instructional Materials, Professor Bernard Gifford (Division of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, Graduate School of Education)
    • NetAcademy: The Philosophy and Pedagogy of Learning on the Internet, Professor Pekka Himanen (Philosophy, University of Helsinki)

    Multimedia Content Development II

    Instructional Technology and Campus Computing Policy

    Thursday January 14, 1999

    Web Pages for Classes

    Innovative Technologies I

    Innovative Technologies II

  3. Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium at UC Berkeley

    As part of the Chancellor's CyberSemester Initiative, UC Berkeley initiated a new lecture series in Spring 1997, which was continued in 1997-98. Broadly titled to encompass interests across the campus, the intent is to focus on new insights occurring at the intersection of art, technology, and culture. The series was organized by Professor Ken Goldberg and Kevin Radley with support from the BMRC, the Art Practice Department/Harmony Chase Fund, the College of Engineering, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Center for Studies in Higher Education. The 1998-99 schedule was:

    Fall 1998 - Spring 1999
    9/23/98 New Epistemic Space: Reflections on Post-Cinematic Practice
    Woody Vasulka: Media Artist, Santa Fe, NM
    10/21/98 Dreams of Causality: Zoob, Zoology,Ontology, Ontogeny and Botany
    Michael Joaquin Grey, Artist and Inventor, NY/SF
    11/4/98 The Art Museum vs. The Digital Age
    David Ross: Director, SF Museum of Modern Art
    11/18/98 Art of the Third Kind: Beyond the Future in Media, Gender, and Society
    Douglas Davis, Artist, NY
    12/2/98 TechGnosis:Mysticism and Information Culture
    Erik Davis, New Media Critic, Author, SF
    1/20/99 InterNyet: Curating Digital Art from Russia
    Barbara London: Curator of Video and Digital Media, NY MOMA
    2/17/99 The Medium Is Not the Message
    Janet Cohen and Keith Frank: Artists, NY Jon Ippolito: Artist and Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum, NY
    3/17/99 ``Is jodi down?''
    Joan Heemskerk, Dirk Paesmans Jodi.org: Net Artists, Barcelona
    4/14/99 The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture at the Brink of the Millennium Mark
    Dery: Cultural Critic, Author, NY

    Fall 1999 - Spring 2000
    9/29/99 The Desperate Poetics of Electrochemistry
    Gail Wight, Artist, Mills College
    10/27/99 Imagination and Meaning on the Internet
    Valery Grancher, Artist, Paris
    11/17/99 The Best Animals are the Flat Animals The Best Space Is the Deep Space
    Diana Thater, Artist, Los Angeles, LA
    12/1/99 The Performative Image: Agitation Toward Ontological Inquiry
    Gary Hill, Artist, Seattle, WA
    2/16/00 Signal or Noise? The Network Museum
    Steve Dietz, Director of New Media, Walker Art Center, MN
    2/19/00 CRASH Symposium: Critical and Historic Issues in Net Art
    3/15/00 The People vs. New Media Art
    Alex Galloway, Rhizome, NY
    4/5/00 Armed Vision
    Jordan Crandall, Artist and Media Theorist, NY

  4. BMRC Web Site

    http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/
    The site showcases multimedia projects produced by the BMRC and the faculty and students we support. In addition, the site provides information about BMRC research, Multimedia courses, labs, resources and events at UC Berkeley. We also provide a calendar for campus-wide events related to multimedia, computing, and educational technology.

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2.3 PUBLICATIONS (TABLE A-2)

Definition: Scholarly writings issued under unit covers, or those which clearly acknowledge ORU influence and/or support.
NOTE: Do not include publications "in preparation", "submitted", or "in press". Please take care to avoid double listing.

Referenced Publications:

Author(s)

Title

Publisher

Press Run/Date

K. Mayer-Patel and L.A. Rowe

Multicast Control Scheme For Parallel Software-only Video Effects Processing

Proc. of The Seventh Annual ACM Intl. Multimedia Conf.

October 1999

A.C. Long, J.A Landay, and L.A. Rowe

Implications for a Gesture Design Tool

ACM SIGCHI Conference

May 1999

D. Wu, A. Swan, and L.A. Rowe

An Internet MBone Broadcast Management System

SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking

January 1999

K. Mayer-Patel and L.A. Rowe

Exploiting Spatial Parallelism For Software-only Video Effects Processing,

SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking,

Proc. of The Sixth Annual ACM Intl. Multimedia Conf.

January 1999

 

September 1998

Diane Harley

The Role of Graduate Students in Humanities Computing at a Multiversity: The UC Berkeley Humanities and Technology Project

 

1999 ACH-ALLC Computing in the Humanities Conference, University of Virginia

 

June 9-13, 1999

Diane Harley

Experimenting with Innovations in Humanities Teaching at UC Berkeley

 

The Future of the Humanities in the Digital Age Conference, Bergen Norway

September 25-28, 1998

A. Chaudhary, A. Freed, and L.A. Rowe

OpenSoundEdit: An Interactive Visualization and Editing Framework for Timbral Resources

1998 International Computer Music Conference

October 1998

Andrew Swan, Steven McCanne, and L.A. Rowe

Layered Transmission and Caching for the Multicast Session Directory Service

Proc. of The Sixth Annual ACM Intl. Multimedia Conf.

September 1998

Other Publications:

Author(s)

Title

Publisher

Press Run/Date

K. Mayer-Patel

A Parallel Software-Only Video Effects Processing System

PhD Dissertation, Computer Science, U.C. Berkeley

December 1999

M. Steele

The Video Workbench: A Direct Manipulation Interface for Digital Media Editing by Amateur Videographers

Master's Project Report

May 1998

A. Chaudhary

OpenSoundEdit: An Interactive Visualization and Editing Framework for Timbral Resources

Master's Degree Report

October 1998


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3. PERSONNEL

3.1 CORE ADMINISTRATION (TABLE A-3)

Definition:
Academic Administrators - Director/Chair, Associate and Assistant Director(s)/Chair(s), Academic Coordinators
Central Support Staff - All non-Senate and/or non-academic professional, technical, administrative, and clerical personnel serving a central function within the unit.

Academic Administrators:

Title

Name

Main Functions

Executive Director

Dr. Diane Harley

Executive Director

Director

Professor Lawrence A. Rowe

Director


Central Support Staff:

Title

Name

Main Functions

Assistant III

Alice Ford

Business Manager/Personnel/Grants Administrator

Assistant II

Jennifer Dawson

Accounting Support/Payroll

Assistant II

Florissa Colina

Seminar/Lab/Colloquia Administration


Production Staff:

Title

Name

Main Functions

Principle Production Director

Vince Casalaina

Principle Production Director

Producer/Director

Martin Eyestone

Producer/ Director

Programmer/Analyst IV

Gordon Chaffee

Programmer

Programmer/Analyst IV

Oliver Crow

Digital Video Systems Engineer

Programmer/Analyst II

Peter Pletcher

Systems Administrator

Programmer/Analyst II

David McFarland

Web Development Manager

Programmer/Analyst

Christopher Mayo

Project Manager /Web Master

Sr. Engineering Aid / Producer Director

Jennifer Paige

Programmer and Web Development

Engineering Aid

Craig Wright

Programmer and Web Development


3.2 BMRC STEERING COMMITTEE

David Wessel (Chair)
Professor, Department of Music
Head, Center for New Music and Audio Technology

Alice Agogino
Director, Synthesis Project
Associate Dean, College of Engineering
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Anton Kaes
Professor, Department of German
Head, Film Studies Program

Yehuda Kalay
Professor, Department of Architecture
School of Environmental Design

Randy Katz
Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Peter Lyman
University Librarian

Lawrence A. Rowe
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Director, Berkeley Multimedia Research Center

Angelica Stacy
Professor, Department of Chemistry


3.3 RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS (TABLE A-4)

TABLE A-4
PERSONNEL RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS (EXCLUDING STUDENTS)

Definition: Campus faculty, professional researchers (in all academic titles), and visiting scholars who have an active role in research, program development and/or supervision within the unit and who contribute one or more of the following:

  1. Personal and direct involvement in ORU-administered research.
  2. Publications which clearly acknowledge the unit as a source of academic or fiscal support for the scholarly work.
  3. PI status on research projects administered by the unit.
  4. Coordination of and/or participation in ORU-sponsored seminars, colloquia, conferences or public service activities that support the mission of the ORU.
  5. Academic supervision of ORU graduate students.

Faculty:

Name

Payroll/ Official Title

Home Dept. or Institution

Affiliation Length

Main Functions/ ORU Contributions

Funding Source

Rowe, Lawrence

Professor

ERL

4 years

Director

EECS/CS

Harley, Diane

Exec. Director

BMRC

2 year

Executive Director

BMRC/Academic Dept.

Agogino, Alice

Professor

Mechanical Engineering

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Altieri, Charles

Professor

English / Art Practice

1 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept

Alivisatos, Paul

Professor

CHEM

2 months

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Besser, Howard

Professor

SIMS

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Boser, Bernhard

Professor

EECS

2 months

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Brewer, Eric

Professor

EECS

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Brodersen, Robert

Professor

EECS

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Canny, John

Professor

EECS

6 months

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Chang, George

Professor

Nutri Sci

6 months

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Deemer, Pete

Lecturer

Jour

1 year

Teaching Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Dhaemers, Penny

Professor

Architecture

2 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Douglass, John

Research Fellow

CSHE

1 year

Research Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Dreyfus, Hubert L.

Professor

Phil

1 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Duggan, Mary Kay

Professor

SIMS

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Fateman, Richard

Professor

EECS

6 months

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Faulhaber, Charles

Professor

Spanish

2 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Filippenko, Alex

Professor

Astr

6 months

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Full, Robert J.

Professor

Integ Bio

1 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept

Goldberg, Kenneth Y.

Professor

IE & OR

3 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Handman, Gary

Librarian

Library-Tchng /Media Rsrcs

1 year

University Affiliate

University Dept.

Harvey, Brian

Professor

EECS

2 months

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Hesse, Carla

Professor

History

2 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Holub, Renate

Professor

UGIS/IAS

2 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Howe, Roger

Professor

EECS

2 months

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Jain, Usha

Sr. Lecturer

SSEAS

6 months

Teaching Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Joseph, Anthony

Professor

EECS

1 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Kaes, Anton

Professor

German

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Kaiser, Mark

Director

Berkeley Language Ctr

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Kalay, Yehuda

Professor

Architecture

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Katz, Randy

Professor

EECS

1 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Koziol, Geoffrey

Professor

Histr

1 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Kreisler, Harry

Exec. Dir

IIS

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Kramsch, Claire

Professor/BLC Director

BLC

2 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Lagerstrom, Larry

Professor

IDS

6 months

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Landay, James

Professor

EECS

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Laqueur, Thomas

Professor

Histr

1 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Litwack, Leon

Professor

Histr

1 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Lyman, Peter

Professor

SIMS

4 years

University Librarian

Academic Dept.

Matkin, Gary W.

Associate Dean

University Extension

2 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

McCanne, Steven

Professor

EECS

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

McCredie, Jack

Assoc. Vice Chancellor

IS&T

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Merchant, Carolyn

Professor

ESPM

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Newton Richard

Professor / Chair

EECS

1 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Pines, Alexander

Professor

Chem

6 months

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Pister, Kristofer

Professor

EECS

2 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Rabaey, Jan M.

Professor

EECS

1 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Sanders, Robert L.

Sr. Public Information Rep

Public Affairs -Univ Comm

1 year

Staff Affiliate

University Dept.

Shewchuk, Jonathan

Professor

EECS

2 months

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Stacy, Angelica

Professor

Chemistry

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Starn, Randolph

Professor

History

2 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Stewart, Andrew

Professor

History of Art

1 year

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Tjian, Robert

Professor

MCB

2 months

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Wessel, David

Professor

Music

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

White, Tim

Professor / Co Diretor LHES

Integ Biol

1 year

Faculty Affiliate

Wright, Paul K.

Professor

Mech Engr

6 months

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.

Zakhor, Avideh

Professor

EECS

4 years

Faculty Affiliate

Academic Dept.


Professional Researchers:

Name

Payroll/ Official Title

Home Dept. or Institution

Affiliation Length

Main Functions/ ORU Contributions

Funding Source

Chaffee, Gordon

Programmer/Analyst

BMRC

1.5 years

Researcher

19900

Chen, Jack

GSR

EECS

1 year

Researcher

Adademic Dept.

Collins, Jeffrey

GSR

Physics

1 year

Researcher

Academic Dept.

Crow, Oliver

Programmer/Analyst

BMRC

4 years

Researcher

Gift & 19900

Debevec, Paul

Post Graduate Researcher

BMRC

8 months

Researcher

DiMI Grant

Douglass, John A.

Research Fellow

Ctr. Studies in Higher Education

2 years

Researcher

CSHE

Gabriel, Matthew

GSR

CSHE

1 year

Researcher

Academic Dept.

Hawkins, Timothy

Programmer/Analyst

BMRC

8 months

Researcher

DiMI Grant

Hughes, Eleanor

GSI

Art History

1 year

Researcher/ Instructor

Academic Dept.

Klemmer, Scott

GSR

EECS

1 year

Researcher

Academic Dept.

Lowe, John

Researcher

Linguistics

2 year

Researcher

Academic Dept.

Louie, Jenny

GSR

CSHE

1 yea