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In this paper, the invisibility of today's technology is often a blessing. Should invisibility be the guiding design goal for ubiquitous computing? The author mentions that invisibility is a narrow design goal. It's not necessarily a bad one, but it doesn't capture the full range of technological or creative possibilities. If the computer scientists and engineers only strive to build invisible systems,...
The paper mentions that coupled with the expected growth in bandwidth through the next decade, cloud computing will change the face of TV. The Internet brought the potential to completely reinvent TV. First, it let users see what they wanted, when they wanted, while suppressing the need for additional hardware. Second, and more importantly, the Net removes the barrier that separates producers, distributors,...
The explosive growth of social multimedia content on the Internet is revolutionizing content distribution and social interaction. It has even led to a new research area, called social multimedia computing.
This first comprehensive empirical study of a search function that originated in China examines its tremendous growth in recent years and its uniquely rich online/offline interactions.
Media streams can be annotated with platform-independent scenario information to reflect frame-level decode complexity. This enables energy-efficient decoding, resource prediction, and quality-of-service management on single-core as well as multicore processors.
Researching and evaluating social media initiatives is essential to encourage usage, continually improve the tools and policies governing their use, and develop governance processes that incorporate social media participation in its many forms.
The paper mentions that social media technologies that began as discretionary and playful have the potential to transform national issues including healthcare, the environment, and media literacy. These loftier goals require a closer look at challenges such as privacy and the ethical use of technology.
An ambitious TMSP education program which recognizes that learners fall into multiple categories, will facilitate training people to participate in the complex interplay between social participation and technical systems.
Encryption and watermarking are the most common techniques used to protect copyrighted multimedia content, but both have many limitations. Mediaprinting offers a reproducible and reliable alternative for digital rights management and related applications on the Internet.
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