Protocols, Servers and Projects for Multimedia Realtime Systems

Dimitris N. Chorafas served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as Visiting Professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, as well as the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America. Chorafas is the author of 160 books, translated into several languages world-wide.

• Foreword; Professor Jessen - What's the Sense of the Information Superhighway - Telecommunications Protocols - Applying New and Old Protocols to Systems Solutions - The Business Perspectives of Interactive Multimedia - Multimedia Servers and Their Software - Practical Applications of Multimedia and Virtual Reality - Disk Forms for Multimedia Applications - Is Optical Storage Complementing or Competing with Magnetic Disk Forms? - Challenges and Benefits from Realtime Visualization - Developing and Using Advanced Human Interfaces - Desk Area Networks, Local Area Networks and Metropolitan Area Networks - Parallelism goes Mainstream