A MUST WATCH -- "The Nature of Space and Time" by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

From: Mark Handley <M.Handley@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Organisation: University College London, CS Dept.
Phone: +44 71 380 7777 ext 3666




THERE ARE STILL A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS TO BE OVERCOME, SO THIS MAY STILL NOT
BE MULTICAST, BUT AS THE DATE IS NOW SO CLOSE, WE FELT SOME ADVANCE WARNING
WAS IN ORDER.  THE UK HAS ALSO BEEN EXPERIENCING SOME PROBLEMS RECENTLY WITH
THE QUALITY OF OUR MBONE FEED, SO NO GUARANTEES....


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                    The Nature of Space and Time
                       a series of 6 lectures
                        given alternately by


                         Stephen Hawking
                               and
                          Roger Penrose


                             at the
   Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK


   Mon 25, Wed 27, Fri 29 April, Mon 2, Wed 4 and Fri 6 May 1994
                    at 5pm BST (GMT +0100).


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We hope to be able to multicast this series of lectures to the Mbone.  We
are very grateful to Princeton University, who own the copyright to the
audiovisual recordings (videotapes will be available from them later), and
have given permission for this multicast.


We plan to route the video over fibre from the Newton Institute to Cambridge
University AV unit, then via an H.261 codec over the SuperJANET ATM network
to London, where it will then traverse the London University LIVENET video
network to the MICE lab at UCL Computer Science, where we will compress it
further for Mbone transmission.


Mark