In multimedia, researchers develop enabling technologies such as computer animation, rendering and digital video telecommunications, that support a broad range of applications using interactive digital technology in the creation and consumption of messages. These applications are computationally demanding and complex. Further, that same price-performance curve simultaneously allows the content consumers to acquire similar functionality and thus to create and interact with multimedia content to a degree never before available and only recently anticipated. Innovations in multimedia technology are primarily driven by customer demands in the growing entertainment and education markets. As both an emerging technology and an integration of existing technologies, multimedia demands a synergistic combination of research and creation applications that appeal to a human desire for content in flexible, interactive, visually compelling and engaging forms.
Content is the catalyst that illuminates new ideas, inventions and processes.
While the nuts and bolts needed to create and deliver such applications are becoming increasingly available, significant work is still required to scale them for widespread use. Intel and The University of Texas at Austin have mutually compelling interests in developing and understanding the intersections of multimedia content and digital technologies for both content creators and content consumers. This proposal reflects a belief that the time is right to begin development and migration work in an Intel and Windows NT environment that focuses on the development and consumption of multimedia content. Advanced Simulation and Modeling Computer simulation is an indispensable and pervasive byproduct of the information age, used extensively in education and training, design, analysis, operations, decision-making, optimization, and automatic control. The University of Texas at Austin is a major player in the area of advanced simulation and modeling and is well-positioned to showcase the use of Intel technology in computationally demanding simulation tasks.