For people interested in graphics and graphical user interfaces, the greatest shortcoming of the Internet is bandwidth, particularly lines to consumer premises. Although most computing professionals have access to high bandwidth connections, most consumers do not. Consumer access to computing and the Internet is probably the most significant development in computing since 1980. This market now drives computing, and hence computer graphics, so it behooves all of us to understand the "last-mile" issues, both technical and political.I have enlisted the assistance of SIGGRAPH Public Policy Committee member Myles Losch to co-author this report with me, I'd also like to give advance notice of the forthcoming Public Policy BOF, which will be held at the SIGGRAPH 99 conference in Los Angeles. This will feature Myles, as well as perhaps an outside speaker and myself speaking on this topic. At time of writing, the BOF has yet to be scheduled, but traditionally it has been held early afternoon on the Thursday of the conference.Following up on our announcement of the first on-line public policy survey in the last issue, committee members Laurie Reinhart and David Nelson present the initial results. Don't forget that sometime in April the second survey replaced the first one. The second survey looks at computer graphics developments that will be important in research and commercial areas and is our contribution to the forward-looking events at the SIGGRAPH 30th year celebration at SIGGRAPH 99.
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Last-mile bandwidth recap and committee survey activity
Ellis, Bob; Losch, Myles; Nelson, David; Reinhart, Laurie
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, Volume 33 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – May 1, 1999
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