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iTV Handbook: Technologies and Standards, By Edward Schwalb

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Quality of Service for Intenet Multimedia, By Jitae Shin, Daniel C. Lee, C.C. Jay Kuo

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Text to Speech Synthesis: New Paradigms and Advances, By Shrikanth Narayanan, Abeer Alwan

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Emerging Topics in Computer Vision, By Gerard Medioni, Sing Kang

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Touch in Virtual Environments: Haptics and the Design of Interactive Systems, By Margaret L. McLaughlin, Joao P. Hespanha and Gaurav S. Sukhatme

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Multimedia Fundamentals, Volume I: Media Coding and Content Analysis, By Rolf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt

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Desktop Digital Video Production, By Frederic H. Jones, PhD

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The MPEG-4 Book, By Fernando Pereira and Touradj Ebrahimi

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Intelligent Systems for Video Analysis and Access Over the Internet, By Wensheng Zhou and C.-C. (Jay) Kuo

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Streaming Media Server Design, By Ali Dashti, Seon Ho Kim, Cyrus Shahabi, and Roger Zimmermann

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Looking For Contributors

IMSC Press invites contributions from leading technologists and researchers. Potential topics include many categories of multimedia technologies, such as:

  • Multimedia systems
  • Relevance of standards
  • The role of multimedia in education
  • Convergence of computing and broadcast
  • Hardware implementation
  • Impact of multimedia on social issues
  • Multimedia and entertainment

Potential contributors are welcome for consideration. Contact Dr. Tescher at (408) 904-5633 or andytescher@attbi.com.

Mail submissions to:
IMSC Press
Integrated Media Systems Center
University of Southern California
Attn: Dr. Andrew Tescher
3740 McClintock Ave., Ste. 131
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2561

IMSC Press Editorial Advisory Board