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The document defines multimedia as computer-based integration of various media types including text, graphics, images, audio, video and animation. It discusses the history of multimedia, including early uses of text, graphics and images in newspapers in the 1800s. Radio transmission in the 1890s and television in the 1900s brought audio and video. Important developments in computing include Van Dam and Nelson's hypertext editor in 1969, the creation of email in 1971, and Tim Berners-Lee's proposal of the World Wide Web to CERN in 1989. Current trends continue to involve greater integration of media types.

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Lecture 1 Introduction To MM

The document defines multimedia as computer-based integration of various media types including text, graphics, images, audio, video and animation. It discusses the history of multimedia, including early uses of text, graphics and images in newspapers in the 1800s. Radio transmission in the 1890s and television in the 1900s brought audio and video. Important developments in computing include Van Dam and Nelson's hypertext editor in 1969, the creation of email in 1971, and Tim Berners-Lee's proposal of the World Wide Web to CERN in 1989. Current trends continue to involve greater integration of media types.

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Lecture 1: Introduction to Multimedia Systems

i. Definition of multimedia/HyperMedia/HyperText
ii. History of Multimedia

What is Multimedia?

Multimedia can have a many definitions these include:

Multimedia means that computer information can be represented through audio, video, and
animation in addition to traditional media (i.e., text, graphics drawings, images).

A good general definition is:

Multimedia is the field concerned with the computer-controlled integration of text, graphics,
drawings, still and moving images (Video), animation, audio, and any other media where every
type of information can be represented, stored, transmitted and processed digitally.

A Multimedia Application is an Application which uses a collection of multiple media sources


e.g. text, graphics, images, sound/audio, animation and/or video.

Hypermedia can be considered as one of the multimedia applications.

What is HyperText and HyperMedia?

Hypertext is a text which contains links to other texts. The term was invented by Ted Nelson
around 1965.

Hypertext is therefore usually non-linear (as indicated below).


Definition of Hypertext

HyperMedia is not constrained to be text-based. It can include other media, e.g., graphics,
images, and especially the continuous media - sound and video. Apparently, Ted Nelson was
also the first to use this term.

Definition of HyperMedia

The World Wide Web (WWW) is the best example of hypermedia applications

History of Multimedia Systems

Newspapers were perhaps the first mass communication medium to employ Multimedia -- they
used mostly text, graphics, and images.

In 1895, Gugliemo Marconi sent his first wireless radio transmission at Pontecchio, Italy. A few
years later (in 1901) he detected radio waves beamed across the Atlantic. Initially invented for
telegraph, radio is now a major medium for audio broadcasting.

Television was the new media for the 20th century. It brings the video and has since changed the
world of mass communications.

Some of the important events in relation to Multimedia in Computing include:

1945 - Bush wrote about Memex

1967 - Negroponte formed the Architecture Machine Group at MIT

1969 - Nelson & Van Dam hypertext editor at Brown

Birth of The Internet

1971 - Email

1976 - Architecture Machine Group proposal to DARPA: Multiple Media


1980 - Lippman & Mohl: Aspen Movie Map

1983 - Backer: Electronic Book

1985 - Negroponte, Wiesner: opened MIT Media Lab

1989 - Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web to CERN (European Council for
Nuclear Research)

1990 - K. Hooper Woolsey, Apple Multimedia Lab, 100 people, educ.

1991 - Apple Multimedia Lab: Visual Almanac, Classroom MM Kiosk

1992 - the first M-bone audio multicast on the Net

1993 - U. Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications: NCSA Mosaic

1994 - Jim Clark and Marc Andreesen: Netscape

1995 - JAVA for platform-independent application development. Duke is the first applet.

1996 - Microsoft, Internet Explorer.

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