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- From: cyberoid@u.washington.edu (Bob Jacobson)
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- Subject: CONF: Singapore Multimedia & VR, March 1-5, 1993
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- MULTIMEDIA & VIRTUAL REALITY
- 1-5 March 1993
- Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore
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- Organized by Systems Education Centre Ltd.
- Supported by National Computer Board
- Sponsored by SFCI and SCS
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- AGENDA (9:00 AM - 5:15 PM each day)
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- March 1
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- Opening Address: Mr. Noel Hon, Chairman, ASOCIO, Immediate Past
- Chairman of SFCI, MD NEC, Singapore
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- Keynote: Developing th Digital Video Market
- Mr. William O'Farrell, The Company of Science and Art, USA
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- Keynote: Virtual Reality: Part One, A Technology Explosion
- Mr. Robert Stone, Advanced Robotics Research Ltd., UK
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- Ketnote: What Skills and Tricks are in the Successful Multimedia
- Designer's Toolkit?
- Ms. Anne Derryberry, Informania, Inc., USA
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- Topic: Considerations in Developing Multimedia Authoring Tools
- Mr. Benjamin Wong, HyperMediaGroup, Systems Education Centre,
- Singapore
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- Topic: Effective Training: More than Just Multimedia
- Ms. Ku Xian Hong, Andersen Consulting, Singapore
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- Topic: Multimedia Integration in Today's Applications
- Mr. Butt Wai Choon (no affiliation listed)
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- March 2
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- Keynote: The State of the Virtual World Industry -- A Prospective
- Report
- Dr. Robert Jacobson, WORLDESIGN, Inc., USA
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- Keynote: Displaynet: A Multimedia Electronic Catalogue System
- Mr. Eric Alderman, The HyperMedia Group, USA
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- Topic: Creating Navigable Multimedia Databases
- Mr. William Claxton, Scriptech (S) Pte Ltd., Singapore
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- Topic: Developing New Products for the Multimedia Market
- Mr. William O'Farrell
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- Topic: Network-Based Virtual Worlds
- Dr. Gurminder Singh, Institute of Systems Science, Singapore
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- Topic: Video Windows on Multimedia
- Dr. Andrew Crilly, NPB, Singapore
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- Panel: Future Directions in Multimedia
- William O'Farrell, Anne Derryberry, Eric Alderman, William Claxton,
- Benjamin Wong, Dr. Andrew Crilly
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- March 3
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- Keynote: Virtual Reality: Part Two, Applications Old and New
- Mr. Robert Stone
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- Keynote: The Application of Information Design Principles to the
- Crafting of Virtual Worlds
- Dr. Robert Jacobson
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- Topic: Cross-Platform Multimedia Development
- Mr. Eric Alderman
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- Topic: Online Training Systems: Moving Toward the Year 2000
- Ms. Anne Derryberry
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- Topic: HyperMedia Standards and Trends in Education
- Mr. Chris Chin Sze Yuan (no affiliation listed)
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- Topic: Digital Media on a Unix Workstation
- Dr. Goh Eng Lim, Silicon Graphics, Singapore
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- Panel: Future Directions in Virtual Reality
- Mr. Robert Stone, Dr. Robert Jacobson, Dr. Gurminder Singh, others
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- Tutorials
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- Two all-day tutorials conclude the conference:
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- Tutorial 1, Virtual Reality: A Practical Experience, March 4
- Mr. Robert Stone
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- Tutorial 2, Cross-Platform Multimedia Development, March 5
- The Hypermedia Group at Systems Education Centre.
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- There is an additional charge for these tutorials. Lunch and two tea-
- breaks will be provided.
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- Registration
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- Conference Fee: S$1,080 per individual participant or
- S$980 per participant in a group of three or more
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- Tutorial Fee: S$440 per individual participant or S$380 per
- participant in a group of two or more
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- SFCI and SCS members are entitled to a 5% discount.
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- Please make personal checks out to Systems Education Centre
- (1983) Pte Ltd.
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- In Singapore, payment may be made by Visa and Master Card.
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- To register or for further information, please contact:
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- Mrs. Stella Chan or Ms. Jeanne Low
- Systems Education Centre (1983) Pte Ltd
- 12th Floor WTC Convention Centre
- World Trade Centre
- 1 Maritime Square
- Singapore 0409
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- Tel: +65-278-9789
- Fax: +65-278-1184
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