>
> > was very enjoyable for all techie and non-techie. Aaron Steimle's
girlfriend
> > taped most of the presentation. I think she had a tape change in
there
> > somewhere.
> >
> > /mario
>
> Mario,
>
> Do you know what media type he was using?? Is it DV or some format
that
> he can make a copy?? I wasn't able to attend and would love to see
the
> footage. If it can't be turned into an .mpg, I'd like to know what
the
> cost might be for making a hard copy via DVD or tape media.
I can tell you it was a small handheld device on a tripod. I took it to
be the
same type, as a super-8 or SVHS, camera architecture -- do the DV fit in
the same type exterior? I was sitting behind her and noticed on the
flip-out LCD viewfinder when a small flashing icon appeared, about an
hour into the talk, which looked like a low tape warning. She then took
it over to the side and worked on it so maybe 5+ minutes were not
captured.
There were projection slides he used, which may not show on the video as
she was using a wide shot (to show him) but the (text) information on
the
slides was all spoken by him so nothing was lost there.
It was an outstanding talk and much of the previously unknown (to me)
information was about the role played by making the SLAC database
of physical abstracts available to the researchers at CERN, in realtime
and with a much simplified method of searching (using the web-type
interface). The server at SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator) in
California
was the first Web server over here. CERN, The Conseil Europeene
de la Recherche Nucleaire, is in Geneva.
Hypertext had been known before, but just about linking documents on a
single machine. The ability to link to documents on _other_ machines
made the Web fly. The use of slow X.25 links, the politics of the
various European PTT's about data exchange and the infancy of the
display windowing methods were all discussed.
Thanks, everyone - Bob
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