Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking

Introduction

Kevin Jeffay,     University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

HongJiang Zhang,     Microsoft Research, China

READINGS in Multimedia Computing is a collection of seminal research papers culled from the literature of the last ten years. Although the origins of multimedia computing and networking can be traced back to the development of systems such as the AT&T Picturephone in the late 1960s, it wasn’t until the 1990s that the field came into its own. The development and mass marketing of the “cheap” personal computer with a CD-ROM drive and a processor powerful enough to process and display multimedia streams enabled the widespread development of multimedia applications for education and training, as well as entertainment and ...