A216
Digital Multimedia
Concepts and Technologies.

Instructor: Jeff Whitmer

• Office: Lindley Hall 201G.
  
• Phone: 855-3974.
  
• E-mail: jwhitmer@cs.indiana.edu.

Lecture Times:

Fall 2006: MW: 11:15am - 12:05pm in Lindley Hall 115 (LH 115)

Lab Times:

• Tue/Thu: 9:30 - 10:45am in LH023
• Tue/Thu: 1:00 - 2:15pm in LH023
• Tue/Thu: 2:30 - 3:45pm in LH023
• Tue/The: 4:00 - 5:15pm in LH023

Prospective Fall 2006 Students: Please note the following:
[Updated: 4/3/06]

• The "Important Course Guidelines" and "General Course Information" links should provide most or all of the basic information you may want. If you have more specific questions, please be sure to contact me, preferably via email. The course content changes every term in an attempt to stay up-to-date. You may note the guidelines for this course seem very strict, especially for a 200-level course. They are. This course satisfies the COAS Natural and Mathematical Science requirement and I take that very seriously.
  
  

• Here is a bit more detailed description the gives some idea of various topics we will cover:
  
  In-depth introduction to the use of mixed-media digital hardware and software tools for effective communication with focus on computational foundations, underlying concepts and technologies, and the notion of "digital convergence." Lecture topics will include: Digital capture techniques and technologies (CCD, CMOS, GIF, JPEG, MP3), fundamentals of compression (lossy/lossless), audio and video codecs and their underlying concepts as well as the import of sensory experience and human physiology to such codecs, simple spatial and temporal algorithms, networking fundamentals as related to streaming digital audio and video, and fundamentals of digital display and digital storage. Laboratory will provide direct experience with lecture topics using the latest available tools to create multimedia for both direct and web-based communications. Strong emphasis on problem solving techniques.

  Our two primary texts will be:
  
  Chapman, Nigel and Jenny Chapman, Digital Multimedia, 2nd ed. John Wiley and Son. ISBN: 0-470-85890-7
  
  Chapman, Nigel and Jenny Chapman, Digital Media Tools, 2nd ed. John Wiley and Son. ISBN: 0-470-85748-X
  
  




• A216 has two major Projects. If you really, really want to take this course but don't want to complete the projects, that is not an option.
  
  
• As always, there are a few other important things to remember. Taking the course P/F or Auditing the course is not allowed without my explicit advance permission. "Just sitting" is not allowed. This is my policy, not the department's or the University's, but it is one I am permitted to set.
  
  

Laboratory Instructors Fall 2006: TBA