COMPUTING

• Central processors and memory
• Peripherals and the User Interface
• Operating systems
• Business and professional trends
  -- Authoring workstations
• Home computing trends

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

• NTSC/PAL television
• Sound systems
• CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMS

DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA

• Digitization and its discontents
• Data compression
  --GIF: Graphic Interchange Format
  --JPG: Joint Phography Experts Group
  --MPEG: Motion Picture Experts Group
  --MP3: MPEG Level 3 for audio

BROADCASTING & CABLE

• NTSC/PAL terrestrial transmission infrastrutcure
• HDTV: High Definition TV

COMPUTER NETWORKING

• TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
• Packets and routers
• Ethernet: 10BaseT, 100BaseT, Gigabit nets
• Wireless IP
• Client/server computing
• Application Servers
• The Internet backbones

THE WORLD WIDE WEB

• http: HyperText Transmission Protocol
• URL: Uniform Resource Locator
• HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
  --XML: eXtensible Markup Language
  --DHTML: Dynamic Markup Language
  --CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  --WML: Wireless Markup Language
• Streaming media
• Server caching

HOME IP

• Cable modems and DSL lines
• Always-on connectivity
• Home networking
  --Phoneline, Radio Frequency, Powerline
• Multimedia servers
• The Home Entertainment Net

Next week: World Wide Web Entertainment Trends

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