New lab for interactive videos.New lab for interactive videos Last week the Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution, research and education center, at Washington, D.C.; founded 1846 under terms of the will of James Smithson of London, who in 1829 bequeathed his fortune to the United States to create an establishment for the "increase and diffusion of , together with a groupof public broadcasting public broadcasting: see broadcasting. stations and systems, launched what they believe to be the first comprehensive U.S. center for research and development on interactive-video applications. Located at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History For the museum in Manhattan, see . This article is about the museum in Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see National Museum of Natural History (disambiguation). The National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., this National Demonstration Laboratory for Interactive Video Technologies is open to educators, museum leaders, journalists, legislators and policy analysts with an interest in marrying computers and software to video, audio and graphic information stored on optical disks. One application the Smithsonian is developing would permita theme-oriented tour of its holdings: Calling up "airborne airborne /air·borne/ (ar´born) suspended in, transported by, or spread by air. airborne, adj carried through the air. In health care settings, viruses or bacteria may become airborne, e.g. ,' for example, would provide access not only to planes from the Air and Space Museum, but also to birds from the National Zoo, sketches by Audubon from Smithsonian's art galleries, the pterodactyl pterodactyl (tĕrədăk`tĭl), popular term for a pterosaur. pterodactyl Any member of the pterosaur suborder Pterodactyloidea, known from Late Jurassic and Cretaceous fossils (159–65 million years ago) in model (SN: 10/19/87, p.247) at the Air and Space Museum and a survey of insect research at its Panama center. |
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