Cornell Uses Envivio 4Forum MPEG-4 Webcasting Solution in New York to Teach Medical Students in Qatar
Easy-to-Use 4Forum System Enables Perfect Synchronization of Video, Audio, and High-Resolution Graphics in Distance Learning Application
San Francisco, CA, October 5, 2004 – Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) today announced it is using the Envivio 4Forum™ webcasting solution to transmit classes from its New York City campus to medical students at its Qatar (WCMC-Q) campus in the Middle East. Envivio 4Forum records daily interactive classes at the WCMC state-of-the-art facility in New York, combines audio, video, and graphics into single 1600 x 1200 resolution MPEG-4 files, and transmits the files over IP to the Middle East campus.
"Envivio has elegantly succeeded in creating a turnkey solution that captures in real time, both the video of faculty student interaction, as well as the high-resolution medical imaging or computer graphics essential to the medical school curriculum," said Dr. Steve Erde, senior director, Academic Computing at WCMC. "The fact that a single encoding system can both stream in real time, and capture into a single interactive MPEG-4 file for on-demand viewing at a later time, was essential for our students in the Middle East (there is an 8 hour time difference between New York City and Qatar). In addition to medical school lectures, 4Forum is ideal for capturing medical grand rounds and research seminars, which will empower a new era in continuing education for established physicians."
"We needed an architecture that was flexible, standards based, and supported the wide range of desktop and server platforms that we use at Cornell. With 4Forum, Envivio has hit the sweet spot for all these requirements!" Erde added.
The 4Forum solution uses the MPEG-4 Systems Specification to deliver live and non real-time interactive and perfectly synchronized webcasts with sub-second latency and the ability to scale delivery to thousands of viewers. It is controlled through a web-based interface to easily customize presentations, start and stop the webcasts, create post edits, and manage presentations for later on-demand delivery from an Envivio 4Sight™ MPEG-4 video streaming server.
Envivio will be show casing its 4Forum suite of webcasting products in booth 247 at the Government Video Technology Expo, which runs from October 6-7, Washington, D.C.
About Cornell Medical School
Founded in 1898, and affiliated with what is now New York-Presbyterian Hospital since 1927, Weill Medical College of Cornell University is among the top-ranked clinical and medical research centers in the country. In addition to offering degrees in medicine, Cornell also has Ph.D. programs in biomedical research and education at the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and with neighboring Rockefeller University and the Sloan-Kettering Institute, has established a joint MD-PhD program for students to intensify their pursuit of Cornell's triple mission of education, research, and patient care.
The Medical College is divided into 20 academic departments: seven focus on the sciences underlying clinical medicine; and thirteen encompass the study, treatment, and prevention of human diseases, and maternity care. In addition to its affiliation with New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College and Graduate School maintains major affiliations with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, as well as with the metropolitan-area institutions that constitute New York Presbyterian Healthcare Network. The Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University are accredited by the Liaison Committee for Medical Education of the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges. For more information, please visit http://www.med.cornell.edu/.
About Cornell Medical School College in Qatar
Innovative and visionary, the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar is at the heart of the rapidly developing Education City near Doha. The Medical College offers young people in the region an unprecedented opportunity to study medicine at a branch campus of one of the United States’ leading universities – and to enjoy all the benefits of study in world class facilities. Using the Cornell curriculum taught by Cornell faculty and applying Cornell standards of excellence, we bring the best of American medical education to Qatar, the Gulf and the wider Middle East region. The courses are the same as those taught in our educational programs in Ithaca and New York. Although rigorous and demanding, they promise extraordinary rewards. Those students who excel in them will master the sciences basic to medicine, explore the medical profession, and acquire the foundation for a medical education. For more information, please visit http://www.qatar-med.cornell.edu/.
About Envivio
Envivio is a leading provider of complete MPEG-4 and H.264 solutions, which consist of a rich set of integrated streaming media tools and systems. The company has established itself as the most experienced creator of high-quality MPEG-4/H.264 solutions that enable enterprises, broadcasters, network operators, and content developers to build new revenue streams and use the efficiencies of delivering content to the full range of MPEG-4 capable devices. The Envivio solution includes various components to create, encode, protect, distribute, manage, and view MPEG-4 content.
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