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Fortino, Giancarlo; Russo, Wilma; Palau, Carlos E. – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2006
In this paper we present a CDN-based system, namely the COMODIN system, which is a media on-demand platform for synchronous cooperative work which supports an explicitly-formed cooperative group of distributed users with the following integrated functionalities: request of an archived multimedia session, sharing of its playback, and collaboration…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Synchronous Communication, Video Technology, Information Technology
Sauer, Jeff – NewMedia, 1997
Removable hard drives and Ethernet are common ways to move data around the media studio, but new protocols allow multiple computers to share an array on one bus. Examines shared storage configurations using fibre channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL) and serial storage architecture (SSA), both serial storage solutions, as well as on small computer…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Database Management Systems, Information Needs, Information Networks
LaRoe, R. John – 1995
The World Wide Web (WWW) acts as a multimedia Internet, navigable via Web browsers. Web browsers (Mosaic, Netscape, Cello, WinWeb, etc.) read files treated in HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML) and display interactive pages to users. Teachers with computer-mediated classrooms or labs can use HTML and Web browsers to create multimedia presentations…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Media, Electronic Text
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Clayman, Stuart; And Others – Information Services & Use, 1995
Examines the interworking between Internet- and ISDN-based conferences, and shows how Internet and ISDN multimedia conferencing environments can be connected. Describes the components of the Conference Management and Multiplexing Center, which act as a gateway between the two environments, and ISDN multimedia conferencing equipment. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Centers, Computer Interfaces, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks
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Horn, G.; Kroselberg, D.; Muller, K. – Internet Research, 2003
Presents an overview of the security architecture of the IP multimedia core network subsystem (IMS) of the third generation mobile system, known in Europe as UMTS. Discusses IMS security requirements; IMS security architecture; authentication between IMS user and home network; integrity and confidentiality for IMS signalling; and future aspects of…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Computer Security, Computer System Design
Barbera, Jose – 1996
The World Wide Web model has evolved within companies from a repository for notice boards to a new tool that can improve work productivity. Intranets, the internal or corporate internets, are likely to be the key information technology revolution for the remainder of this century. The intranet concept is derived from the present Internet as a…
Descriptors: Business, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Databases
Galbreath, Jeremy, Ed. – Educational Technology, 1997
Examines the "reality behind the hype" surrounding the Internet. Discusses its early development; growth and present state; and key applications, including e-mail, voice/video telephony, integrated messaging, electronic commerce, the World Wide Web, and Web commerce, Intranet, Extranet; education and training; security; ownership; and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Security
Chen, Ching-chih – Microcomputers for Information Management, 1994
Discusses the concept of a global library made possible by recent technological, social, and economic changes. Topics addressed include universal information access, the information superhighway, the shift toward a learning-oriented society, the contemporary role of libraries, the need to form a global coalition, and barriers to a global library.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Economic Change, Electronic Libraries
Wedemeyer, Dan J. Ed.; Nickelson, Richard, Ed. – 1996
The Pacific Telecommunications Council's 18th annual conference is presented in two volumes. The PTC'96 gathering focused on seven streams: socio-economic issues; regulatory, legal and political issues; business and finance solutions; country studies; education, training, and human resources; convergence and networks; and technologies and…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Computer Networks, Developing Nations, Electronic Libraries
Wedemeyer, Dan J., Ed.; Nickelson, Richard, Ed. – 1997
This PTC'97 volume contains papers presented at the 19th annual conference of the Pacific Telecommunications Council, "Pacific Connections: Policy and Technology in the Information Economy" (1997). Three super-session groupings--industry, policy, and technology--provide attendees with a conceptual foundation from which subsequent…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Developing Nations
Cole, Timothy W. – Computers in Libraries, 1995
Describes installation and configuration of Mosaic and a World Wide Web (WWW) site at Grainger Library. Challenges include choosing a WINSOCK; customizing Mosaic for public-access computers; reducing security risks; maximizing Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME); designing a home page; producing Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Computer Security, Computer Software Development
Wedemeyer, Dan J., Ed.; Nickelson, Richard, Ed. – 1998
This volume comprises the papers presented at the 1998 conference of the Pacific Telecommunications Council. This PTC'98 gathering focused on "Coping with Convergence." These 20th anniversary conference proceedings present at least one contribution on 59 countries and territories. The 120 papers in this volume are arranged…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Developing Nations
Reggiori, Alberto; Best, Clive; Loekkemyhr, Per; van Gulik, Dirk-Willem – 1999
The ParlEuNet (European Parliament Network) under development at the Joint Research Center of the European Communities is a Web-based information system that will provide a multimedia educational platform for 10 secondary schools across Europe. Schools, teachers and pupils will use the system to teach, learn about, and prepare collaborative…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Cooperative Learning, Distance Education
Truelson, Judith A. – 1997
Evidence suggests that use of multimedia or new media can enhance selected areas of the curriculum. Library planners at the University of Southern California (USC) believe that use of multimedia to transform the World Wide Web into a research forum for scholars in the humanities facilitates and even ensures the eventual use of this material in the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Centers, Computer Networks
Smith, Peter, Ed. – 1998
Topics addressed by the papers including in this proceedings include: multimedia in the classroom; World Wide Web site development; the evolution of academic library services; a Web-based literature course; development of a real-time intelligent network environment; serving grades over the Internet; e-mail over a Web browser; using technology to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education