Mcgraw-Hill Multimedia Handbook

Multimedia is a powerful technology that integrates text, imagery, animation, sound and video to convey information. Now any professional looking to exploit multimedia technology can rely on this handbook for current techniques and applications explained by innovators at IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Kodak, NYNEX, Intel and other leading corporations. Throughout, the experts provide insights into multimedia specifications; intermedia for executives; moving from multimedia to IBM's version; Ultimedia; interactive TV; authoring electronic documents; multimedia networking; and implementing virtual reality. The book looks at current advances, detailing: techniques for developing and networking multimedia operations; applications for MPEG digital video, optical publishing, multimedia audio, MIDI and voice recognition and response systems; tips on configuring a multimedia PC; product listing and directories, resources, available CD-ROM titles and a glossary of terms.