Computers And Internet

Electronic computers have been a great invention indeed and the progress of the hardware that has enabled the building of machines that get smaller and smaller year after year while, at the same time, they get more powerful in processing data, has been and continues to be astonishing. In 70…

My encounter with IT as a (business) tool for the AV world happened towards the end of the MPEG-2 development and was greatly enhanced by my participation in the DAVIC work. Of course until the time I was doing research myself, I had been a good IT user, but only…

Devising methods to interact with machines and the very act of interacting with them are often endeavours with varying degrees of challenge. Playing a musical instrument may require years of practice, while setting the time on a mechanical wristwatch is rather straightforward. Doing the same on a digital wristwatch may…

Most of what has been said so far concerns audio and visual information generated in the real world and reaching human senses either directly or through a more or less transparent communication system. However, an increasing proportion of what we perceive today through communication devices is no longer generated in…

Today the word “Internet” have become part of everyone’s everyday vocabulary. So it is understandable that many people, with grounds or without, claim to have had a role in their development. I firmly claim to have had no role in the development of either. At the time I started MPEG,…