Chapter 1: Introduction to Multimedia

The complete Vannvar Bush article on the Memex system conception

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.

Definitions on hypertext and hypermedia

Hypertext is text which is not constrained to be linear...

Ted Nelson and the Xanadu project

Theodor Holm Nelson, born 1937, obtained his BA in philosophy from Swarthmore College. In 1960, he was a masters student in sociology at Harvard. Shortly after enroling...

Nicholas Negroponte's work at the MIT Media Lab

Nicholas Negroponte is the co-founder (with Jerome B. Wiesner) of the MIT Media Lab (1985), which he directed for its first 15 years...

Douglas Engelbart, and the history of the "On-Line System"

In the late 1940s, Douglas Engelbart was stationed in the Philippines when he read Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" in a Red Cross library...

An introduction to the history and essential workings of television

Did you know there are more television sets in the world than there are telephones? Even the television professionals find it hard to believe. However the statistics prove it to be true...

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

The prototype for an electronic house call that could make health care as accessible as cable television has been developed and tested in a collaborative effort between two Georgia universities, the U.S. Army and a private cable company...

Negroponte and Wiesner

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.

Information about Web Standards

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

IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)

The IETF is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.

Music Sequencing and Notation

Cakewalk Products

Cakewalk is the leading developer of powerful and thoughtfully designed products for the modern musician. These products include award-winning digital audio workstations and innovative virtual instruments.

Cubase Score Information

Cubase is one of the most powerful music creation software packages in the world. With its unrivaled range of flexible tools, you can create any kind of music quickly and intuitively.

Digital Audio

Digital Audio Information for the Sound Forge Tool

SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 14 offers comprehensive tools and functions for all digital audio editing requirements.

Avid

Avid is one firm reshaping the entire media value chain with powerful technology for creating, managing, storing, distributing and monetizing film, television and music.

Adobe Audition

Adobe Audition is a comprehensive toolset that includes multitrack, waveform, and spectral display for creating, mixing, editing, and restoring audio content. This powerful audio workstation is designed to accelerate video production workflows and audio finishing and deliver a polished mix with pristine sound.

Graphics and Image Editing

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is used by millions of designers and artists to create everything from gorgeous web and mobile graphics to logos, icons, book illustrations, product packaging, and billboards.

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop offers photo editing and compositing to digital painting, animation, and graphic design.

Video Editing

Adobe Premiere

Adobe Premiere is a video editing software for film, TV, and the web. Creative tools, integration with other apps and services.

Animation

Adobe Animate

You can use Adobe Animate to design interactive animations for games, TV shows, and the web.

Complete Introduction to 3D Studio Max

A very complete introduction to 3D Studio Max.

Official Site for Java3D

The Java 3D API enables the creation of three-dimensional graphics applications and Internet-based 3D applets. It provides high-level constructs for creating and manipulation 3D geometry and building the structures used in rendering that geometry. With this software, you can efficiently define and render very large virtual worlds.

Multimedia Authoring

Adobe Captivate

Adobe Captivate is an authoring tool that is used for creating eLearning content such as software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and randomized quizzes in Shockwave Flash and HTML5 formats.