1 / 12

SWE 423: Multimedia Systems

SWE 423: Multimedia Systems. Chapter 1: Introduction. What constitutes Multimedia. Multimedia involves several major industries computing telecommunications publishing consumer audio-video electronics television/movie/broadcasting. Brief History of Multimedia Systems.

shana
Download Presentation

SWE 423: Multimedia Systems

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. SWE 423: Multimedia Systems Chapter 1: Introduction

  2. What constitutes Multimedia • Multimedia involves several major industries • computing • telecommunications • publishing • consumer audio-video • electronics • television/movie/broadcasting

  3. Brief History of Multimedia Systems

  4. Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator (ENIAC) • Built at the University of Pennsylvania between 1943 and 1945 by two professors • On the premise of replacing all computers! • Women employed calculating the firing tables for the army's artillery guns • Filled a  6 by 12 meter room, weighed 30 tons! • A “Female Computer”: “I was astounded that it took all this equipment to multiply 5 by 1000”

  5. To perform on ENIAC you had to rearrange a large number of patch cords and then locate three particular knobs on that vast wall of knobs and set them to 3, 1, and 4 Circumference = 3.14 * diameter

  6. Multimedia is still at its infancy • Cannot avoid fuzziness in scope, multiplicity of definitions and non-stabilized terminology.

  7. MIT Media Lab in Boston • One of the first and best known institutes that studied multimedia • Innovative applications • Personalized newspapers • Life-sized holograms • Telephones that chat with callers • ...

  8. Great Impact of Multimedia • Integrating all media in the computer allows using the existing computer power to represent information interactively. • This can, also, be transmitted over computer networks.

  9. Interdisciplinary Aspects of Multimedia • Telecommunication industry • Consumer electronics industry • TV and radio broadcasting sector • “Publishing” industry

  10. Applications Usage Learning Design User Interface Content Analysis Documents Security Semantics Synchronization Group Comm. Services Databases Programming Media Server Operating Systems Comunication Systems Optical Storage Quality of Service Networks Computer Architecture Compression Basics Graphics & Images Animation Video Audio Multimedia Highlights

More Related