We discuss the application of multimedia in scienti c design, and describe a multi-user distributed and collaborative scienti c manipulation environment, Shastra, implemented on the multimedia desktop. We highlight salient features of the underlying collaboration infrastructure { an application conferencing substrate that enables user level cooperation. We demonstrate that, in conjunction with ...

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in multimedia computer systems and applications. We will explore the important challenges that multimedia systems pose to system and application developers, and describe the main issues involved. An overview of the current systems and research in the area and how they have addressed some of these challenges will be provided, with emphasis on th...

Integrating multimedia into real-time control applications requires careful consideration. The impact of the system support needed to meet the soft real-time constraints of multimedia on meeting the hard deadlines of the control application is of paramount concern. We propose that integrated resource models and reeective real-time kernels can provide the basis for the needed solutions. Features...

The application/smil and application/smil+xml Media Types Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document specifies the media type for versions 1.0, 2.0, and 2.1 of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 1.0, SMIL 2.0, SMIL 2.1). SMI...