Creating digital media from educational lectures: Alon Efrat at TEDxTucson

Alon Efrat is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arizona since 2000. He has earned his PhD from Tel-Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Micha Sharir at 1998. He was also a postdoctorate research assistant at Stanford University, and at IBM Almaden Research Center. He won the NSF CAREER award in 2004. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computational Geometry and its Application (IJCGA).

He has published over 110 papers . His focuses in optimizations problems from geometric algorithms. In particular, he is intrigued by reliability problems in networks, in algorithms for sensors networks and sensors locations, and by browsing, indexing, and manipulations of videos of educational content. In this talk he discusses how to convert low-tech recordings of lectures into High Tech Distance Learning Material using the SLIC system.

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