Computer Science 1033A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Lossless Compression, Joint Photographic Experts Group, Tim Berners-Lee

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1033A/B
• Professor: Vivi Tryphonopolous

Document Summary

Multimedia connects with as many sense as possible: sight, hearing, and touch. Sight is provided for by images, animations, and videos, hearing is, obviously, sound, and touch is ease of usability. Thus, multimedia is anything you can hear or see. 1914 - silent movies use film and text captions. 1928 - walt disney debuts steamboat willie, the first cartoon to use synchronized sound. 1928 - 1931 - movies with sound replace silent movies. 1937 bell laboratories invented dual sound tracks on film; fantasia was the first commercial movie with a complete soundtrack. About making an impression; 7-15 seconds to make judgements, 4 minutes on deciding whether to continue past that time period irl. Contrast: make 2 elements either similar or dissimilar. Jazz singer was the first movie with synced vocals. Wizard of oz 1939 was the first colour movie. Arpanet (1969) was the predecessor to the internet.