Do software engineers like multimedia?

Author

Hirakawa, Masahito

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Hiroshima Univ., Japan

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

85

Abstract

Multimedia is not a dream anymore. Nowadays we use images (e.g., GIF, JPEG, and BMP), videos (e.g., MPEG, AVI, and QuickTime), and sounds (e.g., MIDI and WAV) as well as alphanumerical information even on a personal computer. People whose research topics relate to computer network, operating system, real-time computing, user interface/HCI, or consumer products have been very active in developing multimedia tools/systems/products, including high speed network, ATM, video servers, streaming video, push technology, computer games, CD-ROM titles, and so on. But how about software engineers? It seems that they are not interested in multimedia. Why? Is software engineering independent from multimedia? I should say no. In this paper, we present a personal view about this point and related topics which includes multimedia software engineering

Keywords

computer games; multimedia systems; software engineering; video servers; ATM; AVI; BMP; CD-ROM titles; GIF; HCI; JPEG; MIDI; MPEG,; QuickTime; WAV; alphanumerical information; computer games; computer network; high speed network; images; multimedia; operating system; push technology; real-time computing; software engineers; sounds; streaming video; user interface; video servers; videos; Acoustical engineering; Computer interfaces; Computer networks; Microcomputers; Operating systems; Real time systems; Software engineering; Streaming media; User interfaces; Videos;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0253-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1999.779125

Filename

779125