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Palmer Agnew is an Adjunct Instructor at Binghamton University, State University of New York at Binghamton, where he teaches many aspects of multimedia including multimedia networking at undergraduate and graduate levels. He has thirty-three years of experience at IBM where he designed products and complex systems in successive areas of specialization that included military avionics, design automation, mainframe processors, office applications, microprocessor systems, networking, information access, financial systems, university technical joint studies, and multimedia for both education and business. He retired from IBM's senior technical staff, a rank held by only 200 IBM technical people at the time. Palmer originated and taught courses for UCLA online in e-commerce and Internet technologies; and, originated and taught distance-learning courses for the New School through Connected Education. Palmer has developed and taught a distance-learning course on multimedia and Internet related topics. He developed and teaching face-to-face undergraduate and graduate computer science courses in multimedia and multimedia networking including a combination of technical, business and educational topics. He has also developed course materials for Internet business models. Palmer Agnew has coauthored two books on interactve netowrked multimeida and prepared proposals and working prototypes for large grants to develop a nationwide distributed multimedia delivery system for education and business under a contract with IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. During his career t IBM, he proposed, prepared, and delivered workshops on how to use goal-driven, student-created multimedia projects to improve education, prresented results at ACM conferences, proposed, prepared, and delivered corresponding education and consultation covering what multimedia, the Internet, and e-commerce would mean to business software vendors, and served on IBM's corporate proposal team preparing a response to the national administration's America 2000 educational initiative. Palemr provided key technical input and organization for IBM's corporate networked multimedia strategy, including telecommunications, personal computers, and high-end open-architecture workstations. He ran the division's Baldrige process assessment program for re-engineering. he also provided technical reviews and solutions to problems concerning several important joint studies with major universities including Cornell University (Physicist's Workbench), the University of Michigan (Institutional File System based on Andrew), MIT, and UCLA (fiber optics networking and Internet development). He also designed a major pioneering advanced automated trading support system for a leading Swiss bank. Palmer led the product roll-outs for 2 low-end mainframes and held staff assignments in early client-server computing and PC applications. He designed algorithms and implementation for a translator between important document description languages for a highly successful pilot in the White House. Palmer has led numerous other ambitious and successful programs that assisted mainframe logic design, simulation, and test generation, including seven years of summer-intern jobs included hypersonic vehicle avionics and space guidance programs for IBM's military products division. While at IBM Palmer Agner received numerous invention achievement awards, publications achievement award, outstanding contribution awards for product development and an award for the IBM corporate multimedia strategy.