Polytechnic University at Brooklyn, New York, is organizing a

        SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS & VIDEO CODING,
                 October 11--13, 1995, New York City.

The symposium will consist of regular technical sessions, including both
invited and contributed papers, a service provider and vendor session
featuring talks by industrial leaders, and a panel discussion. TRAVEL SUPPORT
may be available for US graduate students and post-Doctoral fellows.

Invited speakers include:
        Robert W. Lucky, Bellcore --- Keynote Speech
        Sudhir R. Ahuja,  AT&T Bell Laboratories
        Dimitris Anastassiou, Columbia University
        Richard Baker, PictureTel
        Ronnie Burns, Hughes Aircraft Company
        Monsong Chen, Infovision Technology, Inc.
        John Cozzens, National Science Foundation
        Bernd Girod, Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (Germany)
        B. Gopinath, Rutgers University
        Barry G. Haskell,  AT&T Bell Laboratories
        T. Russell Hsing, Bellcore
        Thomas S. Huang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
        Walter Johnston, NYNEX Science and Technology, Inc.
        Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University
        Riccardo Leonardi, Univ. of Brescia (Italy)
        Bede Liu, Princeton University
        Sanjit K. Mitra, University of California at Santa Barbara
        Michael Orchard, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
        Atul Puri, AT&T Bell Laboratories
        D. Raychaudhuri, NEC USA
        Amy Reibman, AT&T Bell Laboratories
        Prodip Sen, NYNEX Science and Technology, Inc.
        John J. Sie, Encore Media Corporation
        Ali Tabatabai, Tektronix
        Kou-Hu Tzou, Comsat Laboratories
        Martin Vetterli, UC at Berkeley/Columbia University
        Yaqin Zhang, David Sarnoff Research Center

The deadline for submission of paper summary:  June 1, 1995.

For more information,  please contact:
Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, 6 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Email: yao@galaxy.poly.edu, Tel: (718)-260-3469, Fax: (718)-260-3906