Technological perspective on multimedia computing

Abstract The perceived benefits of computing applications involving the use of media types such as voice and video, in addition to the more traditional text medium, have generated considerable research interest in recent years. This paper examines the state-of-the-art in multimedia computing from a mainly technological viewpoint. Following a brief review of progress to date in multimedia computing and a discussion of the overheads associated with handling various media types, the authors claim that before significant further progress in multimedia applications development is possible, a number of substantial advances in supporting hardware and systems software technologies is required. Consideration is then given to major storage and communications developments presently taking place, the fruition of which are likely to provide the support necessary to advance multimedia computing in a significant way.

[1]  Robert E. Kraut,et al.  Patterns of contact and communication in scientific research collaboration , 1990, CSCW '88.

[2]  Gordon S. Blair,et al.  Group presentation of multimedia applications in IXION , 1991, Comput. Commun..

[3]  Robert E. Kraut,et al.  Quilt: a collaborative tool for cooperative writing , 1988 .

[4]  Stavros Christodoulakis,et al.  Multimedia document presentation, information extraction, and document formation in MINOS: a model and a system , 1986, TOIS.

[5]  Sudhir R. Ahuja,et al.  The rapport multimedia conferencing system , 1988 .

[6]  Andy Hopper,et al.  The Cambridge Fast Ring Networking System , 1988, IEEE Trans. Computers.

[7]  U. Rothlisberger,et al.  A multimedia network interface , 1992, SIGCOMM 1992.

[8]  Barry Fox.  Optical storage systems , 1987 .

[9]  A.C. Luther.  You are there ... and in control (digital interactive video) , 1988, IEEE Spectrum.

[10]  Daniel G. Bobrow,et al.  WYSIWIS revised: early experiences with multiuser interfaces , 1987, TOIS.

[11]  L. Swain.  Message Handling Systems (X.400) , 1991 .

[12]  Gordon S. Blair,et al.  Extensions to ANSA for Multimedia Computing , 1992, Comput. Networks ISDN Syst..

[13]  Douglas B. Terry,et al.  Managing stored voice in the Etherphone system , 1988, TOCS.

[14]  Christian Huitema.  The Challenge of Multimedia Mail , 1989, Comput. Networks.

[15]  John Kunze,et al.  A trace-driven analysis of the unix 4 , 1985, SOSP 1985.

[16]  Jeff Conklin,et al.  Hypertext: An Introduction and Survey , 1987, Computer.

[17]  H. K. Pfyffer.  Overview of ISDN , 1986, ICC.

[18]  Rod Rivers,et al.  Knowledge-based engineering training , 1987 .

[19]  Gregory G. Finn,et al.  An experimental multimedia mail system , 1988, TOIS.

[20]  Fred Douglis,et al.  Beating the I/O bottleneck: a case for log-structured file systems , 1989, OPSR.

[21]  David L. Black.  Scheduling support for concurrency and parallelism in the Mach operating system , 1990, Computer.

[22]  J.C. Kohli,et al.  Emerging broadband packet-switch technology in integrated information networks , 1988, IEEE Network.

[23]  Gordon S. Blair,et al.  INCORPORATING MULTIMEDIA IN DISTRIBUTED OPEN SYSTEMS , 1991 .

[24]  Mark S. Ackerman,et al.  A construction set for multimedia applications , 1989, IEEE Software.

[25]  Vadim Abrossimov,et al.  CHORUS, a New Technology for Building UNIX Systems , 1988 .

[26]  Heather Brown.  Standards for Structured Documents , 1989, Comput. J..

[27]  R. Beckwith,et al.  Distance learning and LiveNet , 1990 .

[28]  Stewart Brand,et al.  The media lab: inventing the future at MIT , 1988 .

[29]  Mark Stefik,et al.  Cognoter: theory and practice of a colab-orative tool , 1986, CSCW '86.

[30]  Daniel E. Geer,et al.  Project Athena as a distributed computer system , 1990, Computer.

[31]  Jason Gait,et al.  The Optical File Cabinet: a random-access file system for write-once optical disks , 1988, Computer.