Rosalie Steier
Pages 777-778
Bryan Kocher
Page 779
Diane Crawford
Pages 780-782
Rosalie Steier
Pages 784-788
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 789-792
Edward A. Fox
Pages 794-801
Drawing examples from four interrelated sets of multimedia tools and applications under development at MIT, the authors examine the role of digitized video in the areas of entertainment, learning, research, and communication. …
Wendy E. Mackay, Glorianna Davenport
Pages 802-810
Advances in computers, such as DVI technology, are driven by new hardware functionality—more magic in the silicon. But before the chips came the ideas, and years of visual and interactive technical simulations to evaluate product …
Douglas Dixon
Pages 824-831
The need for technological solutions to learning, in the software engineering field is increasing. The Advanced Learning Technologies Project (ALT) has developed a highly interactive, high-fidelity simulation of group process …
Scott M. Stevens
Pages 832-843
At the heart of DVI is an image compression and expansion technology that uses proprietary chips to expand an image in real time from a bit stream that has been compressed on a large computer at non-real time rates. This article …
Michael Tinker
Pages 844-851
An image coding technique for digital storage of motion picture information is presented that is optimated for use in interactive systems where high quality still frames, random access, and database linkages are required.
Andrew Lippman, William Butera
Pages 852-860
Optical disks are among the most promising secondary storage devices for data-intensive applications and database management systems. A means of optimizing the storage capacity of optical disks is presented here.
Clement Yu, Wei Sun, Dina Bitton, Qi Yang, Richard Bruno, John Tullis
Pages 862-871
From home entertainment to cultural exhibits to educational methodologies to personal computing, interactive technologies could change observers in to participants.
Karen A. Frenkel
Pages 872-881
A digital presentation technology that manages anything from text to full-motion video has the potential of expanding the usefulness of personal computers, while rendering them less intimidating.
G. David Ripley
Pages 811-822
