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Network advisory committee tackles multimedia

Network advisory committee tackles multimedia NETWORK ADVISORY COMMITTEE TACKLES pirical basis for deciding what kinds of compression losses MULTIMEDIA are acceptable to users and pointed out that JPEG com- pression, based on subjective redundancy, won't work for The Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee some types of uses. (NAC) meeting, December 7-9, 1992, addressed the topic of the networking implications of multimedia computing. At the National Demonstration Laboratory in the after- noon, Bill Harness of Time Associates (the corporate The first morning session was designed to establish a shared sense of the social and technical issues. It was fol- name derives from a project entitled "Technological In- lowed by a session at the Library of Congress National novations in Medical Education") presented several Demonstration Laboratory in which speakers discussed videodisc programs developed by his firm. The systems applications of multimedia computing in the medical, use a voice interface to enable the "doctor" to interview a museum, humanities, and K-12 education communities. patient and order medical procedures. The videodisc con- The second day was devoted to discussing appropriate ac- tains sequences in which the patient answers a wide array tions for NAC. of possible questions and video sequences of many poten- tial outcomes. A probability http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives and Museum Informatics Springer Journals

Network advisory committee tackles multimedia

Archives and Museum Informatics , Volume 6 (4): 2 – Dec 1, 1992
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Springer Journals
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1992 Archives & Museum Informatics
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1042-1467
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1573-7500
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10.1007/BF02770653
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NETWORK ADVISORY COMMITTEE TACKLES pirical basis for deciding what kinds of compression losses MULTIMEDIA are acceptable to users and pointed out that JPEG com- pression, based on subjective redundancy, won't work for The Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee some types of uses. (NAC) meeting, December 7-9, 1992, addressed the topic of the networking implications of multimedia computing. At the National Demonstration Laboratory in the after- noon, Bill Harness of Time Associates (the corporate The first morning session was designed to establish a shared sense of the social and technical issues. It was fol- name derives from a project entitled "Technological In- lowed by a session at the Library of Congress National novations in Medical Education") presented several Demonstration Laboratory in which speakers discussed videodisc programs developed by his firm. The systems applications of multimedia computing in the medical, use a voice interface to enable the "doctor" to interview a museum, humanities, and K-12 education communities. patient and order medical procedures. The videodisc con- The second day was devoted to discussing appropriate ac- tains sequences in which the patient answers a wide array tions for NAC. of possible questions and video sequences of many poten- tial outcomes. A probability

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