A Project Solo module on communication matrices is presented which uses a fictitious airline to demonstrate the principles of communication patterns. It is noted that the Project Solo curriculum is designed to allow for several points of entry and a multiplicity of paths through the modules. (JY)

Bi-directional cable TV (CATV) systems that are being installed today may not be well suited for computer communications. Older CATV systems are being modified to bi-directional transmission and most new systems are being built with bi-directional capability included. The extreme bandwidth requirement for carrying 20 or more TV channels on a…

The number of households hooked up to cable television or community antenna television (CATV) is expanding rapidly, and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been developing regulations since 1962 to guide the growth of the industry. By 1965 the FCC had claimed jurisdiction over all CATV systems in the U. S. This jurisdiction was challenged…

These opening remarks by the Director General of Unesco briefly discuss that organization's activities in the area of copyright within the field of satellite communication. They were addressed to members of a committee whose purpose is to determine whether the protection of signals transmitted by communications satellites does or does not require…

Facsimile communication, the process by which graphics are transmitted from one place to another, is the subject of this book designed for a system engineer designing a whole system, a student who needs to learn all he can without getting bogged down in details, or a businessman who wants to know how facsimile can help him. The book surveys…

Two recent developments in communications satellite technology may speed the coming of cable TV (CATV) networks. First, increases in satellite power are reducing the cost of ground stations. Second, a connection between one ground station, the satellite, and any other ground station is no longer necessarily fixed. Now one station can communicate…

A three-part petition was filed in December 1974 with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which presented the first serious threat to public broadcasters' exemption from the FCC's multiple-ownership rules. The petition requested a revision of the rules that permit multiple ownership of noncommercial educational stations within a single…

Addressed particularly to grade school children, this report summarizes the responsibilities of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in regulating the broadcast industry, pay television, cable television, common carriers, and radio services for safety and special uses. Also described are its field engineering and monitory activities. (SC)

This report describes the On-Line ERIC Project conducted jointly by the National Library of Australia and by IBM Australia Ltd. between March and May 1976. The Project involved a telecommunications network with video terminals and printers linking the National Library, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Central Library, and Macquarie…

It seems inevitable that the system requirements imposed by transmission and processing will determine the microform of the future and that it will be a digital recording rather than a picture. (Author)

National data networks now being built or planned will be complemented by international networks, and solutions to the technical problems of compatibility are being sought. The Common Market's Euronet, first to be used for scientific and technical data, will have rates that are independent of distance. (Author/BB)

Some districts are experimenting with citizens band radios on their buses. (IRT)

The problem presented by the way in which boundaries are drawn between computing and telecommunication, and the issues of the desirable degrees of monopoly and competition are discussed in relation to the development of information services and their accessibility. (Author/MBR)

Describes the Federal Republic of Germany's broadcast system, which is divided into nine regional broadcast stations. User sponsored on a non-voluntary basis, the two TV networks, ARD and Z DF, provide competition for one another while supplementing the third channel's educational programming. (RAO)

Two discussion-oriented computerized conferencing systems, developed at GTE Laboratories of specific user groups are described. (MBR)