The emergence of digital media and networking has had enormous implications in the variety, spontaneity, and depth of personal communications.  Twenty years ago I spoke of and managed research on the “Third Age of Video”.   The concept was that ordinary people would have the tools and the access to communication facilities that would enable them to produce and distribute personal videos and films that would be as compelling and engaging as those developed by the media industry.   We begin to see this today with topical “blogs”.  This is only the tip of the iceberg which has been broadly referred to as digital storytelling.

In this presentation I will share examples of digital stories and review the tools and workflow associated with producing them.   As one begins to think of digital storytelling as the next “killer app”, communication planners and engineers should be mindful of the need for full duplex, wideband communication to the office, home, and mobile unit.

Dr. Judice is currently teaching multimedia communications at Flagler College in Florida and Monmouth University in New Jersey.  Previously he was an Eastman Fellow with Kodak in Rochester where he was working on digital storytelling technologies.   Prior to that he worked at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) as an Executive Director responsible for the development of MPEG, DSL, and video-on-demand technologies. During his 37 year industrial research career he wrote over 50 technical papers, co-authored several book chapters, received 11 patents, and became an IEEE Fellow for his leadership in visual communications and the invention of ADSL.  Dr. Judice received his PhD in physics in 1973 from Stevens Institute of Technology.