MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING

science and engineering prospectuses, exclusively now that multimedia

touches most facets of these fields. Multimedia was originally seen as an

upright application area; that is, a niche application with approaches that

belong only to itself. However, like pervasive computing, multimedia is now

principally a parallel application area and forms an imperative component of

the study of computer graphics, image processing, databases, real-time

systems, operating systems, information retrieval, computer networks,

computer vision, and so on.

Multimedia is no longer just a toy but forms part of the technological

environment in which we work and think. This book fills the need for a

College & university-level text that examines a good deal of the central

outline computer science sees as belonging to this subject area.

Multimedia has become allied with a certain set of issues in computer

science and engineering, and we address those here. The book is not an

introduction to simple design issues—it serves a more progressive audience

than that. On the other hand, it is not a reference work — it is more a

traditional textbook. While we inevitably discuss multimedia tools, we

would like to give a sense of the underlying ideologies in the tasks those

tools carry out. Students who undertake and succeed in a course based on

this text can be said to really understand fundamental matters in regard to

this material; hence the title of the text. In conjunction with this text, a fullfledged

course should also allow students to make use of this knowledge to

carry out interesting or even wonderful practical projects in multimedia,

interactive projects that engage and sometimes amuse and, perhaps, even

teach these same concepts.

The book Multimedia & Computing comprehends five chapters for

skill development course of B.A/B.Sc/ BCA Semester 5th according to the

syllabus of University of Jammu, which inculcates theoretical & practical

portions."