Interactive Multimedia Systems

Multimedia technology has the potential to evolve the paradigm of end user computing, from the interactive text and graphics model that has developed since the 1950s, into one more compatible with the digital electronic world of the next century. Decreasing hardware costs, a relatively inexpensive storage capacity and a rapid increasing computing power and network bandwidth, all major requirements of multimedia applications, have contributed to the recent tremendous growth in production and use of multimedia contents. Interactive Multimedia Systems addresses these innovative technologies and how they can positively impact a variety of areas.

Syed Mahbubur Rahman is a professor at Minnesota State University. He is the coeditor-in-chief of the Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering, an international journal, and the author of Design and Management of Multimedia Information Systems. He lives in Mankato, Minnesota.