At the MPEG Vancouver meeting in July 1999 it was realised that, while interest in MPEG-4 remained high and diffuse, apparently there was no industry or company that was willing...
A very general way of classifying information is based on its being structured or unstructured, i.e. on its appearing or being organised according to certain rules. Characters are a special...
If art is defined as something that people take pleasure in producing, that contains something that different people agree is intrinsically beautiful and, therefore, connoisseurs can admire and talk about,...
I have already mentioned that MPEG had to deal with the software aspects of its work from very early on. The first MPEG-1 Video Simulation Model, fully assembled at the...
After talking about one scourge of the hacker community – software licensing – it is now time to say more about another scourge – patent licensing. Instead of discussing the...
From the very beginning MPEG realised that too many companies had invested in digital media technologies for MPEG to realistically target the development of Optionunencumbered high-performance digital media standards. That...
At the beginning of December 1970, I returned home after spending 30 months in Japan as a Ph.D. student at the University of Tokyo. That had been both a great...
The form of communication enabled by the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet is very effective but in general leaves out a wealth of other information that is present in...
The World Wide Web (WWW) is a globally network of interconnected information elements represented in a standard form using a dialect of SGML called HyperText Markup Language (HTML), using the...
Before starting this page I must warn the reader that MPEG-7 has more elements of abstractness, compared to previous MPEG standards that may make reading it more difficult than other...