• DocumentCode
    1345977
  • Title

    Entertainment/control technology: The wonderful world of Epcot: Walt Disney Productions unveils a futuristic amusement park that may be even more intriguing to engineers than to the public at large

  • Author

    Guterl, Fred ; Truxal, C.

  • Volume
    19
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    1982
  • Firstpage
    46
  • Lastpage
    55
  • Abstract
    Discusses the development of some of the exhibits at Disney World amusement park. The park houses large-scale demonstrations of information systems, computer monitoring and control, fibre optics, energy and transportation. A Bell information system using interactive video technology, a laser disk, fibre optics and microcomputers provides a variety of information to visitors. The computer control room which coordinates all the activities at Epcot, and a garbage collection system are included.
  • Keywords
    sports and entertainment; Bell System; Disney World; Epcot; amusement park; computer monitoring; control; fibre optics; information systems; interactive video; laser disk; microcomputers; solar power; transportation; Computers; Lasers; Monitoring; Motion pictures; Production; Robots; TV;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.1982.6367000
  • Filename
    6367000