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Course description

To enable students to understand the Art of Multimedia, Document architecture and content management, Multimedia over the network, To enable students to be able to Design and develop multimedia applications according to different themes using multimedia application tools.

Course Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Understand and define multimedia and explain the elements of multimedia

  • Enumerate the different applications of multimedia
  •  Describe the different stages of multimedia software development
  •  Understand and be able to list the features of different font editing and designing tools
  • Understand and the specifications of different optical storage devices.
  • Enumerate the architecture of MHEG.

Course Content

  • Introduction to Multimedia and it’s Elements
  • Multimedia Hardware
  • Documents, Hypertext, Hypermedia
  •  Multimedia Communication Systems
  • Multimedia operating system
  •  Multimedia databases

Course Materials

  •  Multimedia: Computing, Communications, and Applications by Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt, Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1st edition (1995) ISBN: 0133244350
  • Perspectives on Multimedia - Communication, Media, and Information Technology, Robert Burnett, Anna Brunstrom, Anders Nilson, Publisher: Wiley, Hardcover, Published May 2004, ISBN 0470868635
  • Multimedia Technologies and Applications for the 21st Century: Visions of World Experts (The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science), by Borko Furht (Editor) Publisher: Springer; ( 1997) ISBN: 0792380746

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