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NSF PA/M 97-2 - January 28, 1997
Problems and Promises: Multimedia's Future
A recent study predicts that multimedia and creative technologies will
represent a new market totalling $40 billion by the year 2000, with
wide ranging applications in manufacturing, education, vocational
training, defense, entertainment, publishing and communication.
This "Multimedia Revolution" faces major technological stumbling blocks.
In response, the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1996 designated
the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern
California an NSF Engineering Research Center. NSF committed $12 million
over five years to support research at the center to improve multimedia
technologies. The center has more than 30 industrial partners, including
Apple, Boss Film, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Hughes Aircraft, IBM, Philips
Multimedia and Segasoft.
This week IMSC officials are providing a progress report to NSF. They
will meet separately with journalists to explain the center's efforts
to develop technologies that will combine digital video, digital audio,
computer animation, text and graphics as multimedia displays for real-time
interactive access in mixed media.
- Who: Chrysostomos L. ("Max") Nikias, director of the Integrated
Media Systems Center at the University of Southern California
- What: A presentation on the future of multimedia technology
- Where: National Science Foundation Exhibit Center
4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Va.
Entrance: north elevator lobby, Ninth & North Stuart Streets
Metro: Ballston stop on the orange line
- When: 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 30, 1997
For more information contact:
George Chartier
(703) 306-1070/gchartie@nsf.gov
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