1) It is a CUNY MDS facility--Multimedia Distribution System.
This part of the room can be used for local events or for events connecting
with similarly equipped rooms at other CUNY campuses. The tables are arranged
for optimal use. Pictures.
The panel includes a "whiteboard" and several monitors.
One can show what is on a diskette or .... (CD drive? Zip drive? hard
disk?), or a page or object under the document camera.
If connected to another campus, one can also show the audience or a
speaker at another campus.
There are cameras that focus on the presenter or on a speaker in
the audience--picture.
The presenter has a microphone and a remote control.
Members of the audience can press a button on the microphone in front
of them: the presenter can then recognize them, using the control, and
the camera will automatically focus on them.
2) It does HETS--
This part of the room can be used for video conferences connecting
Lehman with other campuses, such as the U. of Puerto Rico, via satellite.
A Lehman audience in C14 can see and hear a lecturer in Puerto Rico.
There are cameras, a control, a document camera. The tables are arranged
for optimal use. Pictures.