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Welcome to my CU-SeeMe web pages. Here you'll find information about almost all facets of CU-SeeMe videoconferencing software. In addition to the navigation elements at left there's also a CU-SeeMe Site Map.

Many, many thanks to Dr. "Timothy Mulkey" of "Indiana State University". He's a great fan of CU-SeeMe, so much so that he graciously donated the original CU-SeeMe site computer and net connection. Thanks also to Steve, the system administrator.

In addition to a mirror of these pages, that machine contains the "CU-SeeMe searchable archive" (past discussions of the CU-SeeMe Discussion List, CU-SeeMe Event List, and the CU-SeeMe Reflector Operators' List) and the "CU-SeeMe web server statistics" page. (Give it a minute, it'll generate several graphs just for you.)

What is CU-SeeMe?

CU-SeeMe - pronounced 'see you see me' - allows you to see, hear, and speak with others. You can have a one-on-one conversation with someone running the CU-SeeMe client software, which is currently available for Macintosh and Windows. You can have a one-to-many conference by directing your CU-SeeMe client software to connect with a computer running the CU-SeeMe reflector software, currently available for UNIX. There are many public reflector sites to which you can connect.

As an early press release from Cornell University said:

Cornell University's Information Technology orgranization (CIT) has developed a Macintosh videoconferencing program called CU-SeeMe. It displays 4-bit grayscale windows at either 320x240 or half that diameter, 160x120. CU-SeeMe in version 0.40 provides a one-one connection or, by use of a "reflector," a one-many, several-to-several, or several-to-many conference.

Each participant can decide whether to be a sender, a receiver, or both. Receiving requires only a Mac with a screen capable of displaying 16 grays and a connection to the Internet.

Why is CU-SeeMe used?

CU-SeeMe was designed and implemented to provide "desktop videoconferencing" to people sharing a high-speed network, such as a campus-wide or company-wide 10 megabit/second Ethernet local area network.

Almost immediately after its public release CU-SeeMe was taken on a digital joy-ride in directions its creators never imagined. Newcomers to the Internet, old-timers, students, telecommuters, educators, and artists began to use CU-SeeMe for their work, their play, and their artistic creations. And we didn't have high-speed networks; those who could afford it used the state-of-the-art 14.4 kbps of the day. (CU-SeeMe is being modified to behave well in low-bandwidth situations, for which all our system and network administrators are thankful.)

As you traverse these pages, and the links from these pages to related sites, you'll see a rapidly-expanding world of CU-SeeMe use in a variety of scientific, educational, and creative fields. We hope you'll join us.

Where may I get CU-SeeMe?

CU-SeeMe was created at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, USA. The CU-SeeMe Team maintains the freeware versions of both the CU-SeeMe client and reflector software. (Freeware versions of the CU-SeeMe client software may be found at many software archive sites across the Internet, but these versions are often out of date.)

"White Pine" Software is the exclusive licensee for enhanced, interoperable, commercial versions of both the CU-SeeMe client and reflector software.

The CU-SeeMe software may be found at these teams' web pages.

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