Digital Convergence: The Information Revolution
By: edited by John Vince, Rae Earnshaw
Contributors: Earnshaw, Rae
Publisher: Springer London
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781447112204; 9781447108634
Subjects: Multimedia systems; Computer science
Description: Although the computer's life has been relatively short, it has brought about an information revolution that is transforming our world on a scale that is still difficult to comprehend. This digital convergence is shaping society, technology and the media for the next millennium. Areas as diverse as home banking and shopping over the Internet; WWW access over mobile phone networks; and television systems such as Web TV which combine on-line services with television. But convergence is not just about technology. It is also about services and new ways of doing business and of interacting with society. Digital convergence heralds the 'Information Revolution'. Edited by John Vince and Rae Earnshaw this important new book on Digital Convergence: The Information Revolution is an edited volume of papers, bringing together state-of-the-art developments in the Internet and World Wide Web and should be compulsory reading for all those interested in and working in those areas.
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Table of contents: title: Broadband Internet: Future Applications and Challenges - S. Molyneux; title: The Future of Content: Towards a 5th Framework Programme in Multimedia Content and Tools - K. O'Hea; title: Cultural Objects in Digital Convergence - M. Cavazza; title: The Role of 3D Shared Worlds in Support of Chance Encounters in CSCW - A. Huxor; title: Agent-Based Facial Animation - A. Al-Qayedi, A. Clark; title: The Use of Dynamic Behaviours in a Network-Based Animation System - W. Tang, A. Osman, I. Palmer; title: Virtual Rehearsal over Networks - C. Reeve and I. Palmer; title: WWW Television news in Context - S. Yates and J. Perrone; title: Live Internet Broadcasting - D. Lawrence, A. Sloane, D. Price, G. Constable; title: Jogging the Memory: Dynamic Visualisation over the Web - J. Walton; title: THIN vs FAT Visualisation Clients - M. Jern; title: How to build a Pan-European Multilingual Information Distribution System - J. Malcolm, J. Hewitt; title: Remote Rendering on the WWW - M. McNeill; title: Multi-User Visualization: A CORBA / Web Based Approach - B. Schonhage, A. Eliens; title: Merging Synthetic Animation Sequences with Camera Captured Video for Broadcasts over the Internet - A. Thomas; title: Segmenting, Describing and Compositing Video Sequences Containing Multiple Moving Elements - P. Giaccone, D. Greenhill and G. Jones; title: Video Search and Retrieval - M. Re, M. Zallocco, M. Monaldi, G. Barsanti; title: Video Compression in MPEG-4 - J. Jiang; title: Implications of TV over the Internet - N. Kotsis, R. Lambert, D. McGregor; title: The Implementation of PANIVE: A PC based Architecture for Networked Interactive Virtual Environments - K. Coninx, F. van Reeth, M. Flerackers, E. Flerackers; title: Applications for 3-, 4- and 5-sided CAVES - J. Encarnacao, C. Knöpfle, S. Müller and M. Unbescheiden.