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 peek out my window

Current and Recent Projects:

• I am working with the UW Center for Collaborative Technologies to enhance and extend the ConferenceXP platform for high quality real-time collaboration. Some of my previous RFP funded projects relating to ConferenceXP include:
• ConferenceXP Windows Media Archive Transcoder --  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.
• I am working with the UW CSE Educational Technology Research Group on Classroom Presenter, a TabletPC-based distributed presentation system.
• I am responsible for distance learning technologies for the UW CSE Professional Masters Program
• Overview of Distance Education Technology used by the Professional Masters Program

Publications

• 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, 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)
• 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)

Presentations

• Fred Videon Next Steps for ConferenceXP, Super Computing 2007, Reno NV, Nov 14, 2007. (PPT)
• 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)
• 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)

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.