Software Engineer - Professional Masters Program & Distance Education
Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington Box 352350 Seattle, WA 98195-2350 Office: 242 Allen Center, (map) (206) 543-4725 Email:Send me mail

Current and Recent Projects:

• I am responsible for distance learning and collaboration technologies for UW CSE, including work on educational technology for the UW CSE Professional Masters Program
• I manage and develop the open source project ConferenceXP, a platform for real-time collaboration. Other projects I have worked on that are related to ConferenceXP include:
• Classroom Presenter -- A TabletPC-based distributed presentation system.
• ConferenceXP Windows Media Archive Transcoder --  Tools to post-process ConferenceXP Archive Service data for streaming and off-line use
• ConferenceXP to Windows Media Gateway  -- Live streaming and archiving for ConferenceXP classes and meetings.
• ConferenceXP WebViewer -- Integrated ConferenceXP archive playback with slides, ink annotations and table of contents.

Presentations and Publications

• Fred Videon ConferenceXP Overview and Updates. Network Performing Arts Production Workshop, Barcelona, June 15-17, 2011. (PPT, Video)
• Fred Videon ConferenceXP Overview and Updates. Network Performing Arts Production Workshop, IRCAM, Paris November 22-24, 2010. (PPT)
• Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Natalie Linnell, Mansoor Pervaiz, Umar Saif and Fred Videon, Collaborative Technologies in International Distance Education.  IEEE CSCWD, April 22-24, 2009. (PDF, PPT)
• Fred Videon Educational Technology presentation for MSR Asia delegation, February 23, 2009. (PPT)
• Fred Videon UW Center for Collaborative Technologies, Presentation for IUCEE Study Group, November 21st 2008 (PPT)
• Fred Videon Collaboration Technologies & Deployments, Boston University Technology Research Seminar, November 13th 2008 (PPT)
• Fred Videon and Andrew Whitaker ConferenceXP Update, Access Grid Retreat 2008, Vancouver BC, May 29 2008 (PPT)
• Fred Videon ConferenceXP and Distance Learning at UW CSE, UW Digital Media SIG, March 21, 2008 (PPT)
• Fred Videon Next Steps for ConferenceXP, Super Computing 2007, Reno NV, Nov 14, 2007. (PPT)
• Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Peter Davis, Natalie Linnell, Craig Prince, Valentin Razmov and Fred Videon, Classroom Presenter: Enhancing Interactive Education with Digital Ink, IEEE Computer, September 2007, pp. 56-61.
• Richard Anderson, Fred Videon and Paul Oka Center for Collaborative Technology at University of Washington, Microsoft Faculty Summit, Redmond, WA, July 15-17, 2007. (PPT)
• Richard Anderson, Jiangfeng Chen, Luo Jie, Ning Li, Natalie Linnell, Valentin Razmov and Fred Videon. Supporting an Interactive Classroom Environment in a Cross-Cultural Course. ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education, 2007. (PDF)
• Fred Videon, Shared Lectures with Integrated Student Activities: An International Course Offering using Tutored Video Instruction, Workshop on Advanced Collaboration Environments, Geneva, Switzerland, December 12, 2006 (PPT)
• Richard Anderson and Fred Videon, ConferenceXP for Tutored Video Instruction, MSR ConferenceXP Workshop, Nov 2, 2006 (PPT)
• Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Crystal Hoyer, Craig Prince, Jonathan Su, Fred Videon and Steve Wolfman. A Study of Diagrammatic Ink in Lecture. Computers and Graphics 29 (2005), pp. 480-489(revised AAAI FSS Paper). (PDF)
• Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Crystal Hoyer, Craig Prince, Jonathan Su, Fred Videon and Steve Wolfman. Understanding Diagrammatic Ink in Lecture. AAAI Fall Symposium 2004 Workshop on Making Pen-Based Interaction Intelligent and Natural. (PDF)
• Richard Anderson, Crystal Hoyer, Craig Prince, Jonathan Su, Fred Videon and Steve Wolfman. Speech, Ink and Slides: The Interaction of Content Channels. ACM Multimedia 2004. (PDF)
• Richard Anderson, Jay Beavers, Tammy VanDeGrift and Fred Videon. Videoconferencing and Presentation Support for Synchronous Distance Learning, Frontiers in Education, 2003. (PDF)
• Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Crystal Hoyer, Beth Simon, Fred Videon, and Steve Wolfman. Lecture Presentation from the Tablet PC. Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments, 2003. (PDF)

Misc:

• A Simple Webcam Program  for Quickcam 4000 and .Net Framework
• Outlook Mail filtering with VBA.  Just an experiment.
• Command-line Interface for the Mac.  Really ancient history.