SPEAKERS
Enhancing Student Exchange Experiences with High Definition Video Conference
David Abramson
We have implemented a high definition, low latency, video link between Monash University in Australia and the University of California, San Diego. The link supports two novel student exchange schemes: PRIME and MURPA, where students travel over summer months to engage in research internships. Video supports collaborative seminars where both students, and their mentors, present work, both prior to their departure and during the internships.
In 2008 and 2009 we ran a complete semester of mentor seminars, and also supported final presentations from the students. The technology has been transformative and enabled collaborations that would not have been possible previously.
 | David Abramson's Biography Professor David Abramson has been involved in computer architecture and high performance computing research since 1979. Previous to joining Monash University in 1997, he has held appointments at Griffith University, CSIRO, and RMIT. At CSIRO he was the program leader of the Division of Information Technology High Performance Computing Program, and was also an adjunct Associate Professor at RMIT in Melbourne. He served as a program manager and chief investigator in the Co-operative Research Centre for Intelligent Decisions Systems and the Co-operative Research Centre for Enterprise Distributed Systems. Abramson is currently an ARC Professorial Fellow; Professor of Computer Science in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, Australia, and science director of the Monash e-Research Centre. |
