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Chapter 1

The complete Vannvar Bush article on the Memex system conception is online at

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CC/365/mark/material/notes/Chap1/VBushArticle/

This article was and still is considered seminal. Although written over 50 years ago, it adumbrates many current developments, including fax machines and the associative memory model that underlies the development of the web.

See

http://www.w3.org/WhatIs.html

for an excellent set of definitions on hypertext and hypermedia.

Ted Nelson and the Xanadu project are outlined starting from the URL

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0155.html

Nicholas Negroponte's work at the MIT Media Lab can be accessed at

http://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/

Douglas Engelbart, and the history of the "On-Line System" is detailed at this link

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0035.html

An introduction to the history and essential workings of television can be found at this link

http://www.dvb.org/news/pdf/history-tv.pdf

Georgia Tech's Electronic Housecall system, and an explanation of ``Telemedical patient consultative encounters" can be found

here
and

here.

Negroponte and Wiesner co-founded the MIT Media Lab, and that lab is still going strong -- it is arguably the most influential ideas factory in the world.

http://www.media.mit.edu/

The World Wide Web is of course very important. You can find all sorts of information regarding web standards, including XML, at this link

http://www.w3.org/

As well, the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) website is

http://www.ietf.org/

Java and client-side execution started in 1995: to see ``Duke", the first JAVA Applet go to Link to Duke.

Music Sequencing and Notation

Cakewalk Express is available for download from the link

http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/XP/XP8.html

Cubase Score information is available from the URL

http://www.steinberg.net/

See URL

http://www.macromedia.com/support/soundedit/

for information on Macromedia Soundedit.

Digital Audio

A link to Digital Audio information for the Sound Forge tool may be accessed here. This web page includes a link to the Sonic Foundry company and also a sample Sound Forge file and the resulting output WAV file. The example combines left and right channel information in a complex fashion. Very little effort is required to produce extremely sophisticated sounding special effects using this tool.

Digidesign is one firm offering high-end Macintosh software, which can even involve purchasing extra boards for specialized processing. Their Pro Tools Audio software description is linked from

http://www.digidesign.com/

Syntrillium offers the powerful software package Cool Edit, which emulates a professional sound studio on your computer. The website is

http://www.syntrillium.com

Graphics and Image Editing

The URL

http://www.macromedia.com/software/freehand/

links to Macromedia Freehand information. For Macromedia Fireworks, for graphics specifically aimed at the web, take a look at

http://www.macromedia.com/software/fireworks/

Adobe Photoshop information can ve viewed at the URL

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/

A free product tryout is available there.

Video Editing