Sorry for any cross-posting. Guenther ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Third International Summer School on Advanced Broadband Communications 26th-30th June 1995 After the success of the "First and Second International Summer Schools on Advanced Broadband Communications" distributed between Aveiro (Portugal) and Madrid (Spain) in July 93 and 94, RACE Project BRAIN is pleased to announce its Third International Summer School on Advanced Broadband Communications to take place from 26th to 30th June 1995. This year the School will be distributed to at least four different and geographically distant sites and will constitute a unique event joining a thorough presentation of ABC (Advanced Broadband Communications) with its real use and demonstration. It will include tutorials, in-depth lectures, panels and demonstration of results achieved within R&D projects. Among others the following issues will be addressed: * Cell based technologies * Access Networks * Evolution Scenarios * Management of ABC Systems. * Multimedia * Future Visions of ABC Most important, the 1995 Summer School itself will be a demonstration of ATM based broadband communications, applications and services where a number of results and achievements from different RACE projects will be shown in real operation. The first 3 days of ABC'95 will provide a technical view of ABC and the second 2 days the user view of applications, market and future trends. The 1995 Summer School will be a distributed event where a multimedia CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) tele-training application will join the lecture rooms of the different physical sites into a unique virtual lecture room such that lecturers and participants lose the sense of physical separation and work together with full interaction. At least, the following sites will join ABC'95: * Madrid, Spain ( ETSI Telecomunicacion, UPM ) * Aveiro, Portugal ( CET / University of Aveiro ) * Turin, Italy ( CSELT ) * Sophia-Antipolis, France ( Theseus Institute / AGORA ) Switzerland, The Netherlands and Austria will also join Summer School 95 as subsidiary sites. These will incorporate the full set of functionalities as the main sites and aimed to serve a (reduced) local audience. The pan-European ATM trial connecting the National Hosts from countries involved in this event will provide the necessary communication infrastructure for ABC'95. This will require a complex collaboration between several institutions and R&D projects within the framework of EU initiatives. Overall technical co-ordination is the responsibility of the IBER Project. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Eric Scharf, Queen Mary Westfield College, UK Finn Hansen, ASCOM, Switzerland George Williamson, British Telecom, UK Hans Melchior, Swiss Federal Institut of Technology, Switzerland I. Venieris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece James Callaghan, British Telecom, UK Joco Bastos, Portugal Telecom\CET, Portugal John Dobson, University of Newcastle, UK Jose Domingues, Portugal Telecom\CET, Portugal (BRAIN Project Manager) Josi Scarr, PTT Research, Netherlands Juan Quemada, Technical University of Madrid, Spain (ABC'95 Manager) Klaus Franke, Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany Manuel Duarte, University of Aveiro, Portugal (Aveiro site Manager) Pedro Chas, Telefonica, Spain (IBER Project Manager) Ronan O'Boyle, University of Limerick, Ireland Rui Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal Silvana Ferreri, Institut Theseus, France (site manager ) Silvia Ruiz, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain Stefano Guido Coiro, CNR, Turin, Italy (site manager) Stephen Plagemann, SHP Systems Services, Ireland (BRAIN Technical Manager) Tomas de Miguel, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Vasco Lagarto, Portugal Telecom\CET, Portugal Wilfried Maschtera, University of Linz, Austria If you are interested in receiving direct information about ABC'95 please send the following questionnaire by mail, fax or e-mail to: Dept Ing. Telematica (ABC'95) ETSI Telecomunicacion E-28040 Madrid, Spain tel.: +34 1 3367332, fax: +34 1 3367333, email: ABC95@dit.upm.es Name: Company: Address: Telephone: Fax: Email: