Encyclopedia of Multimedia
Editors: Furht, Borko (Ed.)
- Hundreds of leading researchers and world experts contributed to this comprehensive collection of nearly 350 entries
- Second edition includes 80 new entries, 10 new Editorial Board members, plus new contributors
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- About this book
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Encyclopedia of Multimedia, Second Edition provides easy access to important concepts, issues and technology trends in the field of multimedia technologies, systems, techniques, and applications. Hundreds of leading researchers and world experts have contributed to this comprehensive collection of nearly 350 entries.
Over 1,100 heavily-illustrated pages — including 80 new entries — present concise overviews of all aspects of software, systems, web tools and hardware that enable video, audio and developing media to be shared and delivered electronically.
Borko Furht, Editor-in-Chief, in collaboration with the Editorial Board, surveyed and divided the field of multimedia into specific topics that collectively encompass foundations, technologies, applications, and emerging elements behind web technologies, wireless information transfer, and audio-visual formatting and storage. Borko Furht is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, Multimedia Tools and Applications.
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From the reviews of the second edition: “The Encyclopedia of Multimedia, second edition, has, as its aim, an in-depth coverage of the important concepts, issues, and technology trends in the field of multimedia technologies, systems, techniques, and applications. The work … is well illustrated with 565 figures and 51 tables. … This work is recommended for graduate and post-graduate students of multimedia for whom it will provide useful source and references, and for any organization specialising in the study or design of advanced multimedia devices.” (Eric Jukes, Reference Reviews, Vol. 24 (1), 2010)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Encyclopedia of Multimedia
- Editors
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- Borko Furht
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag US
- Distribution Rights
- Distribution rights for India: Atlantic Pub. & Distr. (P) Ltd., New Delhi, India
- Print ISBN
- 978-0-387-74724-8
- eReference ISBN
- 978-0-387-78414-4
- Print + eBook ISBN
- 978-0-387-78415-1
- Edition Number
- 2
- Number of Pages
- XXX, 1001
- Number of Illustrations
- 565 b/w illustrations
- Topics
