Special Lecture on 6th april

[Adrian David Cheok]

Dear EE4217 Class
I am happy to announce we will have a special guest lecture on
Wednesday 6th April from 10AM.
Please see the details below:
ADC


Title: BBC 3D Interactive: "free-to-air" computer games?

Abstract: Should a public service broadcaster such as the BBC be
entering into the digital interactive entertainment market? Well, as
far as the BBC are concerned, the jury is still out on this one.
However, Marc Price, the BBC's leading expert on 3D Interactive
technology will describe to us why he believes that this is an
important market for the public broadcaster. Along the way, Marc will
discuss the history of digital interactive entertainment technology,
the current state-of-the-art, possible future trends, and how public
broadcasting maps into this.

Biog: Marc left school in 1984
at 16 and followed an apprenticeship as an Electronics Technician.
Since then, Marc has worked in the Pro-Audio music industry, as an ATM
service technician, as a QA technician in heavy electronics industry,
and as a lab technician at a University, before getting his degree in
electronics engineering in 1992. Four years later, Marc was awarded a
PhD from the University of London for his thesis in signal processing,
and shortly after this, he took a position at the BBC's R&D
Department.

Marc is now a Senior Engineer with BBC R&D, and has gained expertise
in archive retrieval, automated subtitling, pre-visualisation
techniques for film and TV, 3D TV, and 3D interactive entertainment.
He is currently on secondment to NTU as a Visiting Researcher, acting
as Technical Director of an interactive entertainment project for
hospitalised children.

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Dr M Price
Senior R&D Engineer
BBC R&D,
Kingswood Warren,
Tadworth,
Surrey KT20 6NP
UK