Advanced Visual Systems announces new home of International AVS Centre: Computer Graphics Unit at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 1996-- Centre offers services and over 700 modules to world-wide visualization application developers and end users Advanced Visual Systems Inc. (AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard) A video compression technique developed by Chinese companies and supported by the Chinese government. Expected to provide better compression than MPEG-2, AVS was created to avoid paying royalties to the MPEG licensors, which are outside ), the world's leading supplier of 2D and 3D visualization application development and end-user software, today announced the International AVS Centre's new location at the Computer Graphics Unit at the University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a university located in Manchester, England. With over 40,000 students studying 500 academic programmes, more than 10,000 staff and an annual income of nearly £600 million it is the largest single-site University in the United Kingdom and receives in the United Kingdom. The main activities of the International AVS Centre (IAC (1) (InterApplication Communications) The interprocess communications capability in the Macintosh starting with System 7.0. Many IAC events take place behind the scenes. ) are to: -- Maintain the International AVS Centre's Web site at http://www.iavsc.org. -- Manage and improve the AVS anonymous ftp An FTP site on the Internet that contains files that can be downloaded by anyone. The anonymous FTP directory is isolated from the rest of the system and will generally not accept uploads from users. module repository, currently home to more than 700 modules, which are available to all Advanced Visual Systems customers. -- Support the submission of AVS/Express modules and convert the most popular AVS5 modules to native AVS/Express. -- Continue to publish and distribute Network News, the AVS customer newsletter. -- Update and expand the facilities as AVS adds new modules and as new technologies emerge. W.T. Hewitt, the centre's director and Director of the Computer Graphics Unit (CGU CGU Conditions Générales d'Utilisation (French) CGU Claremont Graduate University (Claremont, CA) CGU Chang Gung University (Taiwan) CGU Canadian Geophysical Union ), said, "We are honoured with this opportunity to extend our support to AVS' world-wide user community. As more and more data lands on our workstations, the ability to quickly and easily visualize the critical information becomes very important, a task that is made much easier with AVS products. The IAC will enhance the support offered by Advanced Visual Systems whereby customers can share their experiences quickly and easily." The University of Manchester is one of the world's leading universities in the computer graphics field and is a research and development center of the British computing industry. Funding for its R&D work is provided by both the University and commercial sector in the UK. CGU staffs the IAC and provides support for visualization to the UK higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. community. "We are proud to have the CGU continue the IAC tradition," said Gary Farner, Vice President of Marketing at Advanced Visual Systems. "Since its inception in 1992, the IAC has served as an innovative repository for shared modules developed by AVS and our customers. It has been instrumental in the success of Advanced Visual Systems and in establishing close partnerships within the AVS user community." About the University of Manchester One of the leading universities in the United Kingdom “British Universities” redirects here. For the cricket team of this name, see British Universities cricket team. Most United Kingdom universities can be classified into 5 main categories,
Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished and visualization support to the UK academic community. About Advanced Visual Systems Advanced Visual Systems Inc., headquartered in Waltham, Mass., is the leading supplier of "visual intelligence" development tools and end-user software that transform large amounts of complex data into 2D and 3D visual information. The company's products deliver insight and competitive advantage to customers in the technical, scientific, and commercial "data mining" markets, including medical imaging, engineering, geographic information systems (GIS), oil and gas, aerospace, government research, telecommunications, and financial services. The company's products run on Windows 95, Windows NT, all major UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). workstations, and are supported on the Internet. Advanced Visual Systems distributes its products through a direct sales force in the U.S., through subsidiaries in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, and through distributors in numerous other countries. KGT KGT Key Generator Transmitter KGT Klingon for the Galactic Traveller Inc. in Japan oversees sales and distribution channels for the company's products in the Pacific Rim. -0- Note to editors: AVS/Express is a registered trademark and AVS is a trademark of Advanced Visual Systems Inc. CONTACT: Advanced Visual Systems Bernie Buelow, 617/890-8192, ext. 2265 bbuelow@avs.com http://www.avs.com or University of Manchester (UK) W.T. Hewitt, +44 161-275-6095 w.t.hewitt@mcc.ac.uk http://www.iavsc.org http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU |
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