Parallel platforms are becoming predominant in the embedded systems space due to a variety of factors. These platforms can deliver high peak performance if they can be programmed effectively. However, current sequential software design techniques as well as the Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD) programming models often used in the High Performance Computing (HPC) domain are insufficient. In t...

Technologies and applications that enable multi-party, multimedia communications are becoming more and more pervasive in every facet of daily lives: from distance learning to remote job training, from peer-to-peer conferencing to distributed virtual meetings. To effectively use the evolving Internet infrastructure as ubiquitously accessible platform for the delivery of multi-faceted multimedia ...

INTRODUCTION This study evaluated the impact of a waiting room-administered, low-literacy, computer multimedia diabetes education program on patient self-management and provider intensification of therapy. METHODS In this randomized, controlled trial, 129 participants either viewed a computer multimedia education program (intervention group) or read an educational brochure (control group) whi...

With this text, we attempt to articulate, organize and, to some extent, inspire how multimedia scholarship – specifically, undergraduate multimedia scholarship – is practiced here at the University of Southern California. We wish to emphasize, however, that your MDA 140 practicum will be only an introduction to what is an emerging, and therefore exciting and innovative, field. Because we are li...

A software birthmark is a unique characteristic of a program that can be used as a software theft detection. In this paper we suggest and empirically evaluate a static birthmark of binary executables based on API call structure. The program properties employed in this birthmark are functions and standard API calls when the functions are executed. The API calls from a function includes the API c...

development are increasingly driven by social, artistic, and local cultural concepts and needs. Instead of discussing generic tools and models, we can analyze the relationship between multimedia content, location, and culture, as well as how we interact with multimedia under the auspices of critical interaction design. The implications go beyond creative development (software as art and softwar...

Production of multimedia artifacts demands guidance for both engineers developing software and designers generating content. This paper distinguishes conceptually between media, multiple media and multimedia and defines the multimedia document as both communicative object and system, thus identifying integration as a fundamental of production; it proposes media transformations as a means of des...

Introduction Interactive multimedia can facilitate diverse learning styles. A sensory-rich participatory design goes beyond the more abstract style typical of lectures or textbooks, helping students who learn by seeing, hearing or doing. Recently, PI Blank authored a textbook, The Universal Machine with an accompanying multimedia CD-ROM, for a first semester course on computer science (CS1). In...

An integrated Multimedia CAI system of Engineering Drawing is working in Guangdong University of Technology. It includes a set of multimedia software of a teaching system, exercise system, test system, management system of Engineering Drawing and a Computer Graphics instruction system that was developed by the research group of the Department of Engineering and Computer Graphics. More than ten ...