Riding the Media Bits  chiariglione.org
Riding the Media Bits
Digital Media Project
Digital Media Manifesto
Leonardo
Acronyms
Site Map
Home

Table of contents


e-mail

 Last update: 2008/06/10

 
The table of contents of this practical guide to convergence.
 

  1. Introduction
  2. The roadmap
  3. Communication Before Digital
  4. Communication and public authorities
  5. Digital communication is good
  6. Compressed digital is better
  7. The first digital wailings
  8. Digital technologies come of age
  9. Electronic computers
  10. Carrying the bits
  11. Telecom bits and computer bits
  12. The faultline
  13. MPEG's first steps
  14. The development of MPEG-1 - Part A
  15. The development of MPEG-1 - Part B
  16. Inside MPEG-1
  17. The achievements of MPEG-1
  18. Conformance
  19. The highs and lows of television
  20. The digital television maze
  21. The development of MPEG-2 - Part A
  22. The development of MPEG-2 - Part B
  23. Inside MPEG-2
  24. The impact of MPEG-2
  25. Beyond MPEG-2 digital audio and video
  26. Protecting content
  27. The need for standards
  28. Patents and standards
  29. The MPEG way of standards making
  30. An MPEG meeting
  31. Life in ISO
  32. Craft, intellect and art
  33. Fixating works
  34. Rights
  35. Computer programming
  36. OS abstraction
  1. Humans interact with machines
  2. Computers create pictures and sound
  3. Internet and World Wide Web
  4. The mermaid of convergence
  5. MPEG's third steps
  6. Inside MPEG-4 - Part A
  7. Inside MPEG-4 - Part B
  8. The impact of MPEG-4
  9. Open Source Software
  10. MPEG and Open Source Software
  11. The communication workflow
  12. A fuller form of communication
  13. Tagging information
  14. MPEG's fourth steps
  15. Inside MPEG-7
  16. The impact of MPEG-7
  17. Bits and bytes
  18. A world of peers
  19. Technology challenging rights
  20. Opening content protection
  21. The world after MP3
  22. Technology, society and law
  23. MPEG's fifth steps
  24. Inside MPEG-21
  25. The Digital Media Project
  26. MPEG's sixth step
  27. Shaping MPEG for the new phase
  28. Doing something for my country
  29. The solution to the digital media riddle
  30. End of the MPEG ride?
  31. The future of research
  32. Was it worth doing?
  33. Conclusions
  34. Acknowledgements
  35. References
  36. Acronyms
 

 
Send an e-mail to comment — See the communication policy
 

Copyright © 2003 chiariglione.org