Harvard JFK School and eXstream Solutions Jointly Launch Cuban Missile Crisis Site

A Focus on E-learning: In conjunction with “Thirteen Days,” a special Forum brings history, entertainment, and e learning to an exciting reality.

CAMBRIDGE, MA - (February 21, 2001) - Harvard University and eXstream Solutions jointly released their latest website, www.cubanmissilecrisis.org , with a special Forum to discuss the new movie “Thirteen Days” and the circumstances that surrounded the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The website explores the history of the Crisis through articles, reviews, audio, video, and historical documents. It also merges Hollywood with education by allowing and encouraging site visitors to learn about the film depiction of these events and even track risks of nuclear war today.

The Forum, attended by 850 people and chaired by Graham Allison, Director of Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Author, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, stressed the importance of giving the film a strong historical background, despite “Thirteen Days” being a dramatization of factual events, not a documentary. Panelists for the Forum included Robert McNamara, Defense Secretary under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; Theodore Sorenson, former special counsel and adviser to President Kennedy; Ernest May, Charles Warren Professor of History; Co-Author, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis; Peter Almond, Co-Producer, “Thirteen Days.” The panel discussed and debated what really happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the new collaboration of video, audio, and text images - View Video

Graham Allison stated the importance of this new visual collaboration when he remarked, "In the Hollywood blockbuster Thirteen Days, the dramatic events, palpable tension, and key lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis are brought to life for a whole new generation of students. In collaboration with the Producers of Thirteen Days and with outstanding technical support from eXstream Solutions, we have been able to create an innovative new E-learning environment that promises to both excite and educate students about this pivotal moment in history. We hope that www.cubanmissilecrisis.org will be used as a resource by both scholars and students alike.”

“This visual collaboration pushes technology to its limit, demonstrates the power of E-learning, and provides a fantastic opportunity to show the limitless potential of Internet based education,” said Aby Alexander, President of eXstream Solutions.

About The Belfer Center
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, science and technology policy, and conflict studies at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Center's mission is to provide leadership in advancing policy-relevant knowledge about the most important challenges of international security and other critical issues where science, technology, and international affairs intersect.

BCSIA's leadership begins with the recognition of science and technology as driving forces transforming international affairs. The Center integrates insights of social and natural scientists, technologists, and practitioners with experience in government, diplomacy, the military, and business to address these challenges

About eXstream Solutions
A leader in delivering live and on-demand multimedia-based e-learning solutions, eXstream Solutions enables educational content providers and Global 2000 organizations to create, manage and deliver content within a virtual classroom environment. eXstream's Open-Learn product suite provides users with a more compelling online learning experience by integrating live and instantly archived on-demand audio, video and text with collaboration tools and interactivity. Open-Learn leverages robust digital content storage and delivery capabilities to manage this valuable content. As a result, eXstream's software and infrastructure transforms traditional trainings into valuable content across the extended enterprise. eXstream has offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York City.

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