15-499C/15-820A: Media Technology

Course Information

• Class meets from 10:30 to 11:50, Tuesday and Thursday in HHB131
• Class announce bboard located at academic.cs.15-820a.announce

• Text : Multimedia: Computing, Communications, & Applications.

  Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt.

  Plus supplemental readings(TBA)-See secretary if miss these
• Personnel
• Course Syllabus
• Project Information
• Homework Assignments
• For Further Reading
• Running Authorware
• Student Homepages

Some good sources for images, video, audio

• Sample image sites
  • Wuarchive - images
  • Icons useful for webpages
  • Icons, balls, bars good for webpages
  • Planet Earth Images, Icons, Flags
• Image format specifications and other info
  • Graphics File Formats FAQ
  • LZW and GIF
  • JPEG image compression FAQ
  • Note: JPEG image compression was originally linked to http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/. Another suggestion is here.
• Sample audio sites
  • Planet Earth Home Page Music and Audio Info
  • Good collection of sites for audio
• Audio format specifications
  • RIFF(.wav) Audio format
  • AIFF-C Specification - Compressed postscript
• MPEG FAQ

Useful Web Links

• CMU Home Page
• CMU SCS Home Page
• Yahoo - Web Search
• Lycos - Web Search
• How to Write HTML Documents
• HTML 2.0 Spec