Multimedia Educational Materials

During the ACM SIGMM business meeting of the 1995 ACM Multimedia conference, interest was expressed in developing a standard syllabus for multimedia education. This web site is a first step in that direction. It contains pointers to on-line information that is useful to those of us developing courses in multimedia.

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Books and Journals

• A Technical Introduction to Digital Video by Charles A. Poynton, published by John Wiley & Sons, 1996
• IEEE Multimedia Homepage
• Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications", by Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt, published by Prentice Hall, July 1996
  Covers multimedia concepts and implementations, including data representation, compression, storage, communication, operating systems, documents, hypertext and MHEG, user interfaces, synchronization and applications.
• Multimedia Networking Handbook by James P. Cavanagh (editor), published by Auerbach Publication, 1995. -- A collection of articles, useful for multimedia seminars.
• Video and Image Processing in Multimedia Systems, by Borko Furht
  Treats a number of critical topics in multimedia systems, with respect to image and video processing techniques and their implementations. A short description, table of contents, and ordering information is included.
• Multimedia Systems and Techniques, by Borko Furht
  Covers fundamental concepts and techniques used in multimedia systems, including objects and related models, compression, interfaces, storage, communication and networking, synchronization, information systems, scheduling, and video indexing and retrieval techniques. A short description, table of contents, and ordering information is included.
• Multimedia Tools and Applications: An International Journal, by Robert W. Holland, Jr.
  Complete information about Kluwer's journal, including Aims/Scope information, ordering information, table of contents information, and instructions for authors who may wish to submit papers to the journal.
• Multimedia Database Systems: Design and Implementation Strategies, edited by Kingsley C. Nwosu
  A compendium of state-of-the-art research and development work pertaining to the problems and issues in the design and development of multimedia database systems.
• Distributed Multimedia, by Palmer W. Agnew and Anne S. Kellerman
  How is the convergence of global communications systems building, who are the major players in it, and how will your own future as an information user or provider be affected? This book answers these questions.
• Multimedia Interface Design , by Meera M. Blattner and Roger B. Dannenberg
  Examines the use of audio, video, graphics, and animation in computer systems, specifically in the design and construction of the computer-human interface.
• Multimedia Systems , by John F. Koegel Buford
  This book provides a technical introduction to key issues in multimedia, including detailed discussion of new technologies, principles, current research, and future directions. The book covers important interdisciplinary aspects of digital multimedia systems, among them sound and video recording, television engineering, digital signal processing, systems architectures, user interface, and algorithms.
• Multimedia Programming: Objects, Environments and Frameworks , by Simon J. Gibbs and Dionysios C. Tsichritzis
  Multimedia Programming is divided into three parts; Part I surveys current multimedia applications and underlying technologies, Part II explores an object-oriented framework with which programmers can build multimedia applications, while Part III speculates on the future directions for multimedia programming.
• Multimedia Computing: Case Studies From MIT Project Athena, by Matthew E. Hodges and Russell M. Sasnett
  A concise introduction to multimedia computing, reviewing both the human and technical elements involved in multimedia technology and the major issues that will determine its development over the next five years.

Course Notes

• Cornell University: Multimedia Systems - A graduate level survey course in multimedia, covering representation, compression, storage, transmission, and processing.
• George Washington University Multimedia Suite - This site lists three of the four courses in our MM graduate program. It includes the syllabus, reading list and assignments.
• UC Berkeley: Multimedia Systems and Applications - A graduate level course covering the design and implementation of interactive multimedia applications including interactive television, hypermedia systems, and video conferencing and groupware.
• Univ of Texas, Austin: Multimedia Systems - A course in advanced systems covering both theoretical and practical issues in designing multimedia systems.
• Univ of Texas, Austin: Multimedia Communication and Databases - An advanced course in multimedia systems covering transport protocol design, routing and multicasting, mobile networking, operating system support, and multimedia databases.
• UIUC: Topics in Multimedia Communication - The course covers specific issues of networking and communication related to multimedia.
• UIUC: Multimedia Computing Systems - Presents integration issues in the design of a multimedia system from specification to software implementation. The course is an introductory course to multimedia computing including compression, OS, communication, synchronization and user interface topics.
• U. Mass: Multimedia Networking - A graduate-level seminar course in multimedia networking.
• Virginia Tech CS4624: Multimedia, Hypertext, Information Access - Semester senior level course, 60Mbytes of files, over 800 HTML pages, over 300 links, exercises, figures, study questions, quizes (self-paced).
• EE E6850 Visual Information Systems - A graduate level survery course introducing topics in storage, compression, transmission, and analysis of visual data. Include syllabus, reading list, and homeworks.
• COMP 790U: Multimedia Computing and Systems - A graduate course primarily aimed at preparing students in Computer Science for research in Multimedia Computing. Covers fundamentals of computing with digital media, current technology, standards, and research in this area.

Seminars

• UC Berkeley: Multimedia and Graphics Seminar - A weekly seminar series, broadcast on the MBONE, which includes speakers from UC Berkeley and elsewhere on advanced topics in multimedia and graphics.

Other

• Electric Eye Multimediator Canadian multimedia consulting company eb site. Lots of links and information about commercial multimedia applications.