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Workflow analysis, planning, and teamwork

These are exciting, challenging times in the media industry. We are dealing with evolving, often unproven technologies while standards are emerging. Developing multidisciplinary teams for design and deployment of infrastructures that integrate broadcast and IT systems has placed added emphasis on project management and teamwork.

A BOC infrastructure integrates two major technologies of the twentieth century: electrical engineering and computer science. Just as the debate 20 years ago over whether computer science is an engineering discipline has been laid to rest, so too has the broadcast vs. IT debate been resolved in the emergence of a new engineering discipline that combines elements of ...

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