------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B O S T O N U N I V E R S I T Y Computer Science Department C O L L O Q U I U M Wednesday December 7, 1994 3:00pm (Coffee served at 2:30pm) Seminar Room / MCS 135 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TV + Computer = Research? T.D.C. Little Multimedia Communications Lab Boston University There is a great deal of excitement associated with multimedia computer and communications technology. Recent developments in computer and communications hardware and software now facilitate access to multimedia data stored at thousands of sites around the world via the world wide web (WWW); the computer and the television are converging as a tool to both deliver entertainment and to permit personalized interaction and searching through databases of digital information; magazines and newspapers are becoming common sources for large amounts of digital multimedia content available to customers via electronic means. In the US, large telecommunications interests vie for control of information ``content'' to deliver on their networks. This rapid growth of on-line information dissemination and the interest in the delivery of digital video on demand to the home is driving the need for the capability of storing and managing massive amounts of digital information content. From a storage and database perspective the tasks to be addressed are those of multimedia data capture, classification, indexing, information modeling, supporting queries, access, storage and storage serving. In the Multimedia Communications Lab we have been developing an infrastructure for supporting these requirements. This framework has been designed to accommodate the special problems associated with the delivery and playout of time-dependent data. In this talk we will explore the components of our multimedia services infrastructure, our prototype on-demand video system, and plans for future work. The presentation will include visuals of our prototype applications. Host: Prof. Mark Crovella ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This will be the last colloquium in our Fall series; the Spring series will begin on January 25, 1995. For colloquium info, including directions, see http://cs-www.bu.edu/colloquium For more information contact Prof. Mark Crovella -------------------------------------------------------------------------------