From: rdshydur@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9402151506.AA01344@vongole.MIT.EDU>
To: sem095@MIT.EDU
Cc: tmerritt@MIT.EDU, evhippel@MIT.EDU, robot@MIT.EDU, sriskin@ai.MIT.EDU,
        eddie@media.MIT.EDU
Subject: eddie elliot '93, "video streamer" case & discussion;
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 10:06:11 EST


to:	all participants in sem095;

re:	tonight's case, mit media lab alum eddie elliot '93,
	new technology & start-up effort, "video streamer";
	(also tonight discussion of dean's moses & urban session,
	and please bring b-plan template book & tutorial materials
	handed out at first meeting.  extra copies for new students
	will be available this evening.  brief discussion of 
	seminar materials on-reserve in dewey follows).
	
eddie elliot of the media lab's interactive cinema group will offer-up
his (media lab patent-pending) "video streamer" project and product
in a video-demo and class discussion this evening.  

please consider inviting other mit students to sit-in this evening whom
you know to be interested in ideas that begin as thesis topics and
result in fundable and marketable (that's the main point tonight, 
of course) new technologies and product extensions.  criticism and
marketing brainstorming is the theme tonight;  all are expected
to help take this start-up effort apart and look at numerous ways
in which it might be immediately applied and developed further.

(follows, the bio sent to the e-club list;  if other interested students
can't make it to the seminar, please refer them to the talk eddie will
give at the e-club open-meeting preceding the seminar (6pm in 66-144).

thanks,							- r
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Eddie Elliot (finally) graduated from the Media Lab's Interactive Cinema
Group a year ago.  Before MIT he worked mostly in video post production
doing special effects and animation.  

(from Mr. Elliot's e-club bio file)

While working on my master's thesis project I developed a piece of software
I call the Video Streamer.  The Streamer suggests a way of looking at
motion picture time so that temporal things like editing tempo and camera
motions are visible at a glance.  It turns chunks of video time into tangible
objects.  It also just looks good.  Almost any footage generates surprising
images passing through the Streamer.

The main use for the current Streamer is as a video capture utility, but it
suggests dozens of other applications.  Worded differently, I have only
implemented this interface for video capture so far, but it should prove
valuable in numerous situations where one deals with motion picture time
(editing, translation, transcription, logging, filtering or selecting
footage, parsing video tapes, ...).  The Streamer also makes for a
compelling "patterns of motion" exhibit.  I've presented a slimmed down
version of the Streamer as an interactive exhibit at art shows.  I will
have it set up for public poking at SIGCHI here in Boston in April.  

I am seeking ways to commercialize the Streamer.  I would like to strike
quickly with its most immediate application, and, with a little success,
hopefully build on that towards its more sophisticated possibilities.  The
Media Lab has a patent pending for the Streamer.
.