CS4624 Text - Ch 1


Errors:
p. 1, par. 1, last sentence: is garbled

Key Ideas:
digital representation of multimedia information
word processing-> desktop publishing-> desktop multimedia production
early multimedia labs
early multimedia applications

Skim:
1.6.3
1.6.4
1.6.6

Study Carefully:
1.4

Terminology:
continuous media (CM)
home shopping
hypertext
hypermedia
interactive cinema
interactive television
memex
multimedia: communications, data, computing, systems
video-on-demand

Timeline:
1945 - Bush wrote about Memex
1967 - Negroponte formed the Architecture Machine Group at MIT
1968 - Englebart demonstrated NLS system, mouse at SRI
1969 - Nelson & Van Dam hypertext editor at Brown
1976 - Architecture Machine Group proposal to DARPA: Multiple Media
1980 - Bolt: Spatial Data Management System (SDMS) II
1980 - Lippman & Mohl: Aspen Movie Map
1983 - Backer: Electronic Book
1985 - Negroponte, Wiesner: opened MIT Media Lab
1989 - Olivetti in CA - Vox audio server
1990 - K. Hooper Woolsey, Apple Multimedia Lab, 100 people, educ.
1991 - Apple Multimedia Lab: Visual Almanac, Classroom MM Kiosk
1992 - Prodigy: The Next President (collab. online game)


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