eCommerce Course Description for 20-791
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Date |
Topic and Associated Links |
Lecturer(s) |
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October 24 |
Mike Christel | |
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October 29 |
Color Perception, Images, Multimedia Interface Design; Intro to Animation Homework |
Mike Christel |
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October 31 |
Alex Hauptmann | |
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November 5 |
Mike Christel | |
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November 7 |
Alex Hauptmann | |
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November 12 |
Alex Hauptmann | |
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November 14 |
Web Specifications and Multimedia Synchronization: W3C, XML, SMIL, XSLT, etc. See also additional SMIL Info and Examples. |
Mike Christel |
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November 19 |
Alex Hauptmann | |
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November 21 |
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November 26 |
Project LISTEN: A Reading Tutor that Listens; Informedia: Content Analysis of Digital Audio and Video |
Alex Hauptmann |
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December 3 |
The TREC Interactive Video Track and Content-based Retrieval from Digital Video (Slides) |
Rong Yan |
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December 5 |
Multimedia and CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) (Slides) |
Don Marinelli, ETC Co-Director |
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December 10 |
Experience-on-Demand/Digital Human Memory; Informedia Interface Evaluation and Information Visualization |
Alex Hauptmann and Mike Christel |
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December 12 |
Multimedia Companies (Experiences from the Field) |
Alan Black and Kevin Lenzo, co-founders of Cepstral LLC, Matt Siegler, formerly at MediaSite which was acquired by Sonic Foundry, Ginny Pribanic, CEO of MedRespond.com LLC and officer in MIT Enterprise Forum |
As a prerequisite for this course, you MUST be able to post all of your homework assignments to a web site, where you have permission to load and store tens of Megabytes of files, and where you have permission to run scripts.
Students in the Master of Science in Electronic Commerce Program can post their web pages and supporting files to peso.ecom.cmu.edu by following these instructions.
Homework #1: Multimedia Look-up via the Web, due Oct. 28
Homework #2: Digitizing and Searching Images, images due Oct. 30, search due Nov. 4
Homework #3: Animation via Macromedia Flash, due Nov. 24 or Nov. 25
Homework #4: Sound Editing, due Nov. 27
Homework #5: Speech Recognition and VXML, due Dec. 3
Homework #6: Digitizing Video and Synchronizing Text to Video, due Dec. 5
Homework #7: Synthetic Interview Text Preparation and Integration, due Dec. 10
Homework #8: Multimedia Web Site with Images, Sound, Animation and Video, due Dec. 15