AccessFabrik Lab Attends NAB 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
The AccessFabrik Lab team recently traveled to Las Vegas to attend the NAB Show from April 11th – 14th. Joining the team were Ryerson representatives from the Centre for Learning Technologies, Open Mobile DTV, and the Global Campus Network project. Our projects were exhibited on the show floor to industry leaders, researchers, practitioners, and hobbyists in the broadcasting and media industries looking to create interest and seek potential future collaborations.
The NAB Show is a gathering of media and entertainment professionals, with over 90,000 attendees this year. The show’s theme focuses on methods of content creation and making that content available to a wide audience on multiple platforms.
The lab presented our New Tools for Collaborative Media Production, as well as our newest project, the Flash Media IP Based Video Switcher. The video switcher was a collaborative pursuit between AF Lab’s Principal Investigator Michael Murphy, Brain Lesser and Arianne de Guzman from CCS, and Uwe Shulz from Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart, Germany.
The lab is looking forward to pursuing the connections that were made at the show with the hope of establishing partners for future projects.
More information about Ryerson’s projects exhibited at the show can be found here. The posters that were featured at the show can be seen below.
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AccessFabrik Lab Attends ICT 2010 in Brussels
Thursday, September 30, 2010
AccessFabrik Lab representatives Michael Murphy and Ron Rankine traveled to Brussels, Belgium for ICT 2010 (Information and Communication Technologies), which ran from September 27th – 29th. The conference gathered over 5000 researchers, inventors and innovators whose work has focused on developing new technologies to meet and exceed the needs of today’s growing society.
Murphy and Rankine attended all three days of sessions at the trade show, providing demonstrations of the AccessFabrik Lab’s remote desktop collaboration tools, which provide high definition, low-latency remote desktop streaming and control to machines potentially located anywhere across the globe. Murphy assumed control of a PC housed in the lab’s Toronto offices at Ryerson University, where he played high definition video and collaboratively edited video with lab representatives over 6000 kilometers away.
The conference served as an excellent networking environment, with numerous potential research collaborators and business partners finding interest in the lab’s technologies. The AccessFabrik Lab is excited to watch these relationships develop in the coming months.
AF Lab Associates Win Second Prize at OCE Discovery
Sunday, May 30, 2010
AccessFabrik Lab associates Michael Dick and Elaine Wong received second place at this year’s OCE Discovery video competition, held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre from May 17th – 18th. The competition served as a means to creatively present student research in an engaging and concise format.
The two used footage from their presentation at the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas, which they attended in April, providing information on the lab’s HD Collaborative Design Tools. The project allows users to participate in a high definition videoconferencing and shared-desktop environment, facilitating stronger business-to-business collaboration through a live translation captioning service, as well as the ability to manipulate designs on remote machines. The lab plans to integrate the project with other Semantic Web Services in the near future.
Michael Dick accepted the award on the second day of the conference, where he and Elaine Wong received $1,500 each.
The lab was also present at OCE in 2008 and 2009, each year continuing to innovate at the forefront of collaborative design. (more…)
AccessFabrik Lab Travels to the UK
Thursday, May 20, 2010
After an initial meeting on March 24th, 2010 at Ryerson University, Dr. Michael Murphy (Head of Audio & Digital Media at the School of Radio and Television Arts) and Ron Rankine (Manager of Project and Research Support at the Rogers Communication Centre) travelled to the UK to meet with partners of MUPPITS, a collaborative project supported by 9 UK Industry partners, during the month of May. (more…)
FCAD Newsletter: “Grad Student Presents in Lisbon”
Saturday, March 14, 2009
AccessFabrik Lab principal investigator, Dr. Michael Murphy – Head of Audio & Digital Media at the School of Radio and Television Arts – and research associate, Michael Dick – a graduate student in the Communication and Culture Program – presented a peer-reviewed paper at the WEBIST conference 2009 in Lisbon. The presentation was primarily based on the lab’s research and development on the Access Grid technology and semantic web applications.
The 5th international WEBIST (Web Information Systems and Technologies) conference brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in real world applications and web-based information systems. According to the WEBIST website, this high standard conference only permits acceptance based on “quality, relevance and originality”.
Links: WEBIST 2009