Study Questions

What is the difference between hypertext, hypermedia, multimedia?

Which of the tags allowed in HTML are more procedural as opposed to declarative? [Hint: HR is procedural while TITLE is declarative or descriptive.]

Where were three of the important early multimedia laboratories?

Explain how consumer electronics, computing, communications, publishing and entertainment are coming together regarding multimedia.

Explain briefly the concepts of: anchor, link, web.

What more can be done with the 1912 web than with the Dickens web?

What are some advantages of StorySpace as opposed to WWW? Of WWW as opposed to StorySpace? [Hints: Which runs stand-alone? Which can run in client-server mode? Which runs on many platforms?]

What new capabilities were first shown by the Electronic Book developed at the MIT Media Lab?

What new capabilities were first shown by the Aspen Movie Map?

What are some ways that multimedia systems can help with education?

What are some of the key technical challenges with multimedia?

Hierarchy