by Dr. Roland Kersting, Rensselaer Polytechnic Instutite
Guest Lecture for the Science of Information Technology
Filmed July 21, 2003
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by Dr. Roland Kersting, Rensselaer Polytechnic Instutite Guest Lecture for the Science of Information Technology Filmed July 21, 2003 |
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Internet Explorer on a PC and Windows Media Player.
(Apologies to the Mac users and anti-Microsoft purists, but the video is in Microsoft Producer format and won't play in other environments.) |
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A reasonably fast connection to the Internet.
(Dial-up should work, but the buffering is sketchy and takes a really long time. If you are forced to use dial-up, let the video download completely before you try to play it. This could take an hour or more.) |
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(26 MB) |
DSL- and cable-modem friendly. You should be able
to play it after only a brief delay.
Will work for dial-up connections, only if you have a great deal of patience. (For best results on dial-up, allow file a significant amount of download time before clicking on play.) |
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(62 MB) |
Downloads well on corporate LAN lines. Performance over cable modem and DSL depends upon the alignment of the stars at the time you download. Definitely NOT recommended for dial-up. |
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You may request a CD of this ScIT guest lecture, and/or other ScIT materials by emailing DJ Wagner. |
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Upon clicking on one of the bandwidth choices, you will be taken to a page that, at first, gives you nothing to do. Once the video has buffered, you will see the word "Play" appear in the top left (where "Loading, please wait ..." had been previously). The video is still loading, but your computer judges that you have downloaded enough to get started. If your Internet connection is of a slower variety, you may want to wait a while longer before clicking on Play. The longer you wait (up until the time at which the entire presentation has loaded), the better your chances of successful and smooth viewing. |
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Once you click on Play, the top left of the screen should contain the video. Below the video is a table of contents, listed by the titles of the Power Point slides that will appear in the top right of your screen. Clicking on any table of contents entry should take you to that point in the video, assuming that point is already loaded. The forward and backward arrows directly below the video take you to the next or previous slide. |
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If you have to stop the presentation at any point and visit other web sites, your browser will remember where you left off and start at that point the next time you launch the presentation, provided you do not close the browser. |
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