Emerging Multimedia Technologies

Provides a broad-based overview of current trends and issues in multimedia development and related industries. The class format will include lectures, readings, demos, discussion, research, projects, and a final student presentation. Course content changes each semester. May include topics such as voice/data/video integration, virtual environments, broadband, streaming media architectures, telco/CATV/satellite technologies, network-based applications, using technology for building community, wireless technology, current thinking in human factors and usability, XML and the semantic web, groupware and collaborative tools, pervasive computing, and others.