[SIGCIS-Members] Wed, 7/22: Video Conferencing – Silicon Valley’s 50-Year History

[Brian Berg]

Hello,

With all the online events happening these days that have replaced
in-person events and meetings, video conferencing has gone mainstream with
the general public.  We are pleased to promote the upcoming Wed, July 22
webinar
<https://californiaconsultants.org/event/webinar-video-conferencing-silicon-valleys-50-year-history/>
of the IEEE Silicon Valley Technical History Committee which will detail
how Silicon Valley has advanced this technology over the last 50+ years.

Committee Chair (Tom Coughlin) and Vice Chair (myself) are both CNSV Board
members.  CNSV member Ken Pyle is also a committee member and event
videographer, and he originated this webinar and will moderate the panel of
speakers.

Brian Berg

*Wed, July 22, 1:30-2:30pm PDT*
*Webinar: Video Conferencing – Silicon Valley’s 50-Year History
<https://californiaconsultants.org/event/webinar-video-conferencing-silicon-valleys-50-year-history/>*

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The COVID-19 pandemic looks like it will be the catalyst that turns video
conferencing into an everyday communications tool for use by everyday
people.  However, this 50+ year overnight success story has roots dating
back to the 19th century, as well as the 1964 World’s Fair with AT&T’s
vision of a videophone that would be as simple to use as a telephone.

To realize that vision, many different technologies would have to be
invented, refined and cost-reduced, including video capture and associated
screens, broadband infrastructure and what came to be known as the cloud,
and the digitalization of audio and video.  The compression algorithms and
methodologies that were used to dramatically reduce the amount of audio and
video data needed to be transmitted were an essential enabler, and they
will be the focus of this event.  Silicon Valley’s history in this realm
goes back over 50 years, and companies that no longer exist that built the
foundation for video conferencing include Compression Labs, C-Cube and
Divicom.  However, their inventions were foundational, and companies
including 8×8 and Intel still exist and are active in support of video
conferencing as we use it today.

Join the IEEE Silicon Valley Technical History Committee as we look back at
the history of how we arrived at today’s technology, including how hype and
marketing often raced ahead of the technology and infrastructure.  Our
speakers will discuss the lessons they learned along the way, and will
explain how the various building blocks slowly came together.  We will also
provide a picture of what the future holds for richer communication
experiences, including virtual reality and improved security.

About the speaker, Dave House
<dave at davehouse.com?subject=Inquiry%20from%20IEEE-CNSV%20Website> of House
Family Vineyards <https://www.housefamilyvineyards.com/Story/House-Family>

Dave House joined Intel Corp.in 1974, and led the company’s microprocessor
division from the 80386 through the Pentium II in 1985-2003.  He also
launched Intel’s still very successful Server Products Division, and
managed the team that introduced the “Intel Inside” marketing program.
Dave was also instrumental in Intel’s 1988 purchase of Digital Video
Interactive (DVI) technology from David Sarnoff Research Center
Laboratories.  DVI brought multimedia initially to DOS-based PCs, and later
became a fundamental building block for Intel’s ProShare video conferencing
system.  Dave went on to lead several Silicon Valley telecom and networking
stalwarts such as Bay Networks, Nortel, and Brocade, and he is currently
the proprietor of the highly acclaimed House Family Vineyards.


About the speaker, Eric Dorsey
<eric_dorsey at mac.com?subject=Inquiry%20from%20IEEE-CNSV%20Website>

Eric Dorsey’s primary expertise is in creating consumer products in the
audio, video, neural networks and mobile space.  He is currently managing
projects for the US government using AI and Machine Learning in the area of
national security.  Eric was Director of Engineering at San Jose-based
Compression Laboratories, a pioneer in video compression for both video
conferencing and television distribution networks.  He was involved in the
initial meetings of the MPEG standard committees, and went on to senior
roles at notable set-top companies such as Thomson and San Jose-based
TiVo.  More recently, he worked on a project for preserving Dr. Stephen
Hawking’s synthetic voice
<https://www.npr.org/2018/03/27/597390626/an-engineers-quest-to-save-stephen-hawkings-voice>
.


About the speaker, Bryan Martin
<bmartin at 8x8.com?subject=Inquiry%20from%20IEEE-CNSV%20Website> of 8x8, Inc.
<https://www.8x8.com/>

Bryan Martin is Chairman and CTO of 8×8, Inc. in Campbell.  He led the
company’s transition from hardware to its Unified Communications as a
Service offering which integrates voice and video over IP in a single
platform to enable cloud phone, video collaboration, team chat, contact
center and analytics functionalities.  Bryan’s early work in compression
was at Santa Clara-based Integrated Information Technology (IIT) where he
helped develop the Vision Processor chips that allowed JPEG image encoding
and decoding at video rates, and which could also perform both MPEG and
H.261 compression and decompression of audio and video data.  San
Jose-based Compression Labs used these chips as a replacement for discrete
circuits in its systems.


About the speaker, Ken Pyle
<ken.pyle at viodi.com?subject=Inquiry%20from%20IEEE-CNSV%20Website> of Viodi,
LLC <https://viodi.com/>

Ken Pyle will moderate the above panel of speakers.

Ken is a CNSV member <https://californiaconsultants.org/members/ken-pyle/> who
has been a videographer of many past CNSV events.  He began working in
field service and product management roles in the cable television and
video industries starting in the 1980s, including Catel and Comlux/C-Cor.
As these companies were providers of uni- and bi-directional analog and
digital video transmission systems, this led Ken into work with
video-on-demand (VOD) providers.  In 2002, he founded Viodi, a premier
provider of information and assistance to independent communications
service providers and their vendors.  Besides creating well over 100 video
interviews and “documonials” annually, Ken is managing editor of the Viodi
View newsletter <https://viodi.com/> and producer of the ViodiTV YouTube
channel <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yugch_31fyA>.
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