Videoconferencing Classroom Photos

Chancellor Greenwood demonstrated the facility’s long-range communication capabilities by discussing the project with Craig Broadway, who took the call in Connecticut. Broadway is CEO of AVAI, Inc., the company that developed the software for the videoconferencing classroom.

Executive Vice Chancellor Tanner demonstrated the room’s many interactive capabilities, discussing music with Associate Professor Anatole Leikin (Tanner played guitar, and Leikin and one of his graduate students played piano at University House) and computer science with a CS student in the audience (the student, using a laptop computer and Tanner evaluated a protein molecule on the room’s "smart" board).

Vice Chancellor Francisco Hernandez said the videoconferencing room–and facilities like it–could be a useful tool in the campus’s outreach efforts. A "virtual" high school, he added, could help level the playing field for California high school students who don’t otherwise have access to courses the university requires for admission.

Karl Sonkin, a reporter for KRON-TV in San Francisco, interviews Albion Baucom, a computer science graduate student, who helped with the demonstration.

Deondra Wilson, a computer engineering student, also took part in the demonstration.

Chancellor Greenwood visits with Ronald Henderson, dean of graduate studies, at a reception following the press conference and open house.