Introduction to Multimedia The Internet The Web Driart

Introduction to Multimedia: The Internet & The Web Driart Elshani Msc, Ph. D Candidate

General Information Course Title: Introduction to Multimedia: The Internet & the Web Course Number: 4002 -320 Course Location: 104 Course Schedule: ◦ M/W 19: 00 – 20: 50 ◦ T/TH 19: 00 – 20: 50

Course Description • • This class provides an introduction to key Internet, web, and multimedia technologies, as well as familiarity with the Macintosh computer platform. Topics covered include social communication, basic Internet applications such as SSH, SFTP, and the World Wide Web, basic digital image techniques, and web page development and publishing.

Course Objective • • • The main objective of the course is to introduce you to Multimedia technologies and applications such as Photoshop. Likewise, the aim of the course is to introduce you to the Internet technologies and World Wide Web. After completion of this course, you will be able to use and create multimedia applications.

Content • • • • Overview Social Communication Internet Applications Digital Image Techniques Introduction to Photoshop Editing Web Page Development & HTML Web Page Publishing, Blogs & Wikis Introduction to Dreamweaver Editing Introduction to Content Management Systems Semantic Web GIF Animations Flash Animations MAC OS-X Basics Unix Basics

Overview • What is Multimedia? – An entity or a source of information – Uses a combination of different content forms – Text, pictures, sounds, videos • • Interactive Multimedia Linear vs. Non-Linear – Linear: no navigational control from the user » Cinema Presentations – Non-Linear: user interactivity (navigation control) » Computer Games, IP TV, VOD, …

Usage of Multimedia • Multimedia Applications – Education » Computer Based Training Courses – Entertainment » Video Games – Fine Arts » Digital Imaging – Engineering » Computer Simulations – Industry » Presentations to Shareholders – Medicine » Virtual Surgeries

The Internet & The Web What is the difference between: ◦ The Internet A Collection of Computers and Cables FTP, TELNET, E-Mail, WWW, Chat, P 2 P, IM, … ◦ The World Wide Web A Collection of HTML Pages Web Browsers: IE, Mozilla, Opera, Safari WWW E-Mail Internet Chat FTP

The Internet • • Interconnection of Computer Networks Started in the ‘ 60 s under the name “ARPAnet” Originally an experiment by US military With time, ARPAnet became civilian Free and open broadcast medium of hardware networking No single person owns it No single government has authority over its operations A Brief History of the Internet » http: //www. isoc. org/internet/history/brief. shtml » http: //www. zakon. org/robert/internet/timeline/

The Internet cont’d Based on protocols: TCP/IP (Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) Uses DNS (Domain Name Servers) Addressing space using IPv 4 and IPv 6 Comprised of: computers, handheld devices, phones, … Next Generation Networks and Next Generation Internet

The Web An entity of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via Internet A collection of Web Pages that may contain text, pictures, sounds, videos (multimedia) Navigation on Web Pages using hyperlinks Firstly introduced at CERN in ‘ 90 s

The Web cont’d Based on HTTP (Hyper. Text Transfer Protocol) Communication between the Client and the Server Using URL (Uniform Resource Locator) To uniquely identify and access a Web Page stored on a Web Server Using HTML (Hyper. Text Markup Language) To create a Web Page

The Web cont’d Web Web Web Pages Browsers Applications Mail Design Services

Multimedia Devices Computers Handheld devices Phones Combining text, pictures, sound, videos TV Sets A/V Streamers And others!

Interoperability of Multimedia Devices Connectivity of Multimedia Devices Discovery of nearby Multimedia Devices Integration of Multimedia Devices Interoperability of Multimedia Devices Using Web Services HTTP, SSDP, UPn. P

Quiz • • • What is Multimedia? What are the different types of Multimedia? What is the Internet? What is the Web? What is the difference between the Internet and the Web? What are the Internet applications? What is TCP/IP, IPv 4, IPv 6? What is DNS? What are Web applications? What is URL, HTTP, HTML?