An introduction to Multimedia Technologies & Applications on the web

Dr. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, SITE, University of Ottawa

Wednesday 30 April 2003, 6:30 p.m. - networking - 7:00 p.m. seminar

Boardroom STE 5084, 5th Floor, 800 King Edward Ave, Ottawa

More and more people are coming into contact with internet-based systems and websites that are rich in multimedia (graphics, animation, sound and video). This talk is for beginners as well as intermediate in multimedia and Internet technologies. Its objective is to present the state-of-the-art in multimedia enabling technologies, services and applications, over a variety of networks and protocols, with emphasis on giving practical insight on some new standardization trends to use for developing e-learning/commerce systems. Here a new breed of application frameworks and approaches seek to enable true interoperability of separated systems. We will look at open standards for making true interoperability a reality.

Dr. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik is with the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) at the University of Ottawa. He received his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) and M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Dr. El Saddik is the author or co-author of four books and more than 30 research papers in the area of software engineering development of distributed multimedia applications and shared environments. He is an Associate Editor of the ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC) and Co-editor of the IEEE-Distributed Systems Online, in the areas of Collaborative Computing and Distributed Multimedia. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of ACM, and co-founder of ACS. 

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