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Like High-Def? Here Comes the Next Level
By John Markoff
September 26, 2005

San Diego, CA - Scientists and engineers in the United States and Japan plan to test the world’s highest-resolution videoconferencing system on Monday evening over a 9,000-mile optical network linking the University of California, San Diego, with Keio University in Tokyo.

The demonstration will allow those attending the iGrid 2005 scientific computing conference to watch an exchange between Yuichiro Anzai, the president of Keio, and Marye Anne Fox, the chancellor of the San Diego campus, on a theater display with four times the image resolution of today’s HDTV technology.

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