A Lesson in Interactive Television Programming: The Home Book Club on QUBE

A System for the Delivery of Interactive Television Programming

Interactive television is a technology for delivering television programming on demand to households and busines ses . Rath er t han pa ss ive l y cho os ing f rom a predetermined set of programs at scheduled times, the viewer can request programming to be delivered to him individually on demand. This paper describes a system being developed by IBM that is in active use at customer trials. The ...

Children's Interactive Book in Iran A Review On Existing Situation And Production Challenges

Background and objective: Audience communication with digital media is bilateral and interactive. Book publishing in non-printed and digital formats has also created the feature of interactivity in books. This paper presents an attempt to identify the challenges of creating interactive childrenchr('39')s books in Iran by evaluating childrenchr('39')s interactive books published in Iran and the ...

QUBE - Array programming with dependent types

Array programming languages such as APL or MATLAB use multidimensional arrays as the primary data structures. Rank-generic operations apply transparently to vectors, matrices, and arrays with an even higher rank. Often, these operations require that the ranks, shapes, and the elements of their arguments satisfy certain constraints. For example, in MATLAB, the element-wise addition A + B dynamic...

The Left Book Club: An Historical Record

Interactive Television

Broadcast Multimedia, Arthur Lugmayr, Samuli Niiranen, and Seppo Kalli, Springer, 2004, $80, 254 pp., ISBN 0-38720843-7. In the 1930s, television gradually found its way into consumers’ homes. With the introduction of color TV in the 1960s, it became a widespread and highly accepted consumer product. It has taken another 40 years to bring a new innovation into the world of TV: the digitalizatio...