CSU Sacramento Selects Convera for E-Learning Streaming Video Initiative.Business Editors/Education Writers SACRAMENTO, Calif. & VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2003 Screening Room(R) Allows Students to Access Lectures Online Within Hours; Enables Fast Access to Specific Content with Robust Search Functionality Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR CNVR Conveyor ) today announced that California State University, Sacramento California State University, Sacramento, more commonly referred to as Sacramento State or Sac State, is a public university located in the city of Sacramento, California, USA. It is part of the California State University system. is using its Screening Room(R) video asset management technology to provide video archives of courses to its students. An integral part of CSU See DSU/CSU. 1. CSU - California State University. 2. CSU - Cleveland State University. 3. CSU - Channel Service Unit. Sacramento's distance and distributed education program, Screening Room enables students to view course content within minutes after the actual lecture is given, no matter where the student is located. Prior to deploying Screening Room, courses were videotaped and tapes were available to students to view on campus when their schedules allowed. However, finding specific content from lectures proved to be a time consuming process as students had to manually search through different tapes to find specific content. Screening Room's intelligent, high performance search and retrieval technology allows students to review lectures in a highly efficient manner. By performing keyword searches, students can easily access every reference to an area of interest made during the entire course. For example, a student enrolled in Biological Sciences 125, Body Fluids Analysis can enter the search term "cerebrospinal fluid cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Clear, colourless liquid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord and fills the spaces in them. It helps support the brain, acts as a lubricant, maintains pressure in the skull, and cushions shocks. " and access every instance in which cerebrospinal fluids were covered during the entire course, beginning with the first instance. This capability enables students to review course material quickly, making the learning process more efficient. "We spent over a year researching various solutions for our distance learning project, and Screening Room was far and away the best system available to suit our particular needs," said Dr. Rose Leigh Vines, Director of Distance and Distributed Education at CSU Sacramento. "Convera supports the concept of learning from any place, at any time, and Screening Room has the potential to make faculty more organized in the way they present material in their lectures." The distance and distributed education team at CSU Sacramento consists of several people: a faculty member, a student assistant, a graphic artist, an instructional designer, a project manager and a network analyst. Working with Screening Room, this team can have a complete lecture available for streaming only three minutes "Three Minutes" is the 46th episode of Lost. It is the twenty-second episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Stephen Williams, and written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. It first aired on May 17, 2006 on ABC. after the lecture has ended. Notes from the PowerPoint presentation are incorporated into searchable clips, making keyword searching more accurate. Data from the presentations are transferred in precise detail and integrated with video shot during the lecture, so students viewing the archive experience the presentation in its original form. "Convera was the only company willing to work with us to create a plug-in for the PowerPoint presentations used by our faculty," said Vines. "This enables data to be transferred exactly as it appears on the instructor's screen, allowing nearly instantaneous in·stan·ta·ne·ous adj. 1. Occurring or completed without perceptible delay: Relief was instantaneous. 2. availability of streaming content once the lecture is complete. Screening Room has become an exceptional and indispensable teaching tool for our distance and distributed education program." About Convera's Screening Room Convera's Screening Room provides scalable, high-performance access to any video asset (analog or digital) from an ordinary Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . With Screening Room, users can automatically capture video; browse (1) To view the contents of a file or a group of files. Browser programs generally let you view data by scrolling through the documents or databases. In a database program, the browse mode often lets you edit the data. See Web browser. visual summaries (called "storyboards"); catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. content using metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. , annotations, closed caption text, and voice sound tracks; search for precise video clips A short video presentation. using text and image clues; and create rough cuts and "Edit Decision Lists" for further production; and publish those video assets to the Web for streaming. Screening Room turns video assets into useful resources in a cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. way. About Convera Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search, retrieval and categorization solutions. Convera's RetrievalWare solutions maximize return on investment in vast stores of unstructured information by providing highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search across more than 200 forms of text, video, image and audio information, in more than 45 languages. More than 750 customers in over 29 countries rely on Convera's search solutions to power a broad range of mission-critical applications including enterprise portals See corporate portal. , knowledge management, intelligence gathering, profiling, corporate policy compliance, regulatory compliance, customer service and more. For more information, contact Convera at 800/788-7758, via e-mail at info@convera.com or on the Web at www.convera.com. This release, including any statements from Convera personnel, contains statements about Convera's future expectations, performance, plans, and prospects, as well as assumptions about future events. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. , as these statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties, including without limitation, business and economic conditions and trends; continued success in technological advances; possible disruption disruption /dis·rup·tion/ (dis-rup´shun) a morphologic defect resulting from the extrinsic breakdown of, or interference with, a developmental process. in commercial activities caused by terrorist activity and armed conflict, such as changes in logistics and security arrangements; reduced customer demand relative to expectations; competitive factors; and other risk factors listed from time to time in the company's SEC reports. Actual results may differ materially from our expectations as the result of these and other important factors relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc Convera's business and product development efforts, which are further described in Convera's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings can be obtained from the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statements are based on information available to Convera on the date of this release, and Convera assumes no obligation to update such statements. The Convera design logo and the following are worldwide trademarks of Convera: Convera(TM), RetrievalWare(R), and Screening Room(R). The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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