Computers And Internet

Computers And Internet	This chapter is outside of the MPEG streambed. Readers who are comfortable with history of Information Technologies and its use may well skip it.
Computer Programming	This section describes the role of software, and particularly of operating systems.
Operating System Abstraction	The television world was in need of a solution to a know problem: applications that could run on any set top box. I led a European project that was close to a solution when the Digital Video Broacasting (DVB) made the wrong choice.
Humans Interact With Machines	Computers can do wonders when they know what to do. Telling them how to do it in a user-friendly way is the problem. This section tells a brief history of how we came to the current Graphical User Interface to facilitate interaction with computers.
Computers Create Pictures And Sound	Ears and eyes are two important sensors and MPEG was designed to provide solutions to convey sound and vision information captured from the real world to humans. But sound and vision information can also be created by computers. This section tells a brief history of this capability.
Internet and the World Wide Web	A short fascinating story of a technology on which a sizeable part of MPEG data now travel.