You are invited to an breakfast. Topic: SMIL

Thought I'd pass this on to the list. Come hear fellow list members talk
about SMIL!

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A breakfast meeting sponsored by INTERSHOP Communications Inc. and DCI,
featuring SMIL: The future of Web Multimedia, will be presented on
Wednesday, September 2nd, 1998 in room 105 of the Hynes Convention Center
from 7a.m. - 8:30a.m. The New England Chapter of the National Association
of Webmasters will host the event. 

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language or SMIL, (pronounced smile),
has only recently become popular. “With endorsements from the World Wide
Web Consortium, (W3C), and companies like RealNetworks, Allaire, Veon and
other companies producing multimedia content using this new language,” says
NAW New England Program Director B.K. DeLong, “SMIL’s popularity will soar.”

SMIL enables authors to bring television-like content to the Web, avoiding
the limitations imposed on traditional television by lowering the bandwidth
requirements for transmitting multimedia content over the Internet. Using a
simple HTML like tags, you can now synchronize audio and video clips with
the text and images on your web pages. SMIL makes producing audio-visual
content easy since it does not require learning a programming language and
can be done using any text editor.

Speakers at the NAW’s New England Chapter breakfast include the “father” of
SMIL , Philipp Hoschka. Mr. Hoschka from the W3C Consortium at M.I.T.,will
give an overview of this new medium. Also speaking will be Dr. Lloyd
Rutledge, from the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam,
who will demo a SMIL player and editor developed by the Center. Geoff
Freed, from the WGBH/PBS National Center for Accessible Media, will
highlight the features in SMIL that make multimedia more accessible to
those with disabilities. 

The breakfast is free to all NAW/WOW members and $10 for all non-members.
After the breakfast, attendees may be interested in attending other
presentations featured in the XML track presented by DCI as part of the
e-business world conference.

Please RSVP to me before August 31st.

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B.K. DeLong                  360 Huntington Ave.
Director                         Suite 140SC-305
New England Chapter     Boston, MA 02115
National Association      (617) 247-3753
of Webmasters
 

http://www.naw.org
bkdelong@naw.org

NAW is the North American "chapter" 
of the World Organization of Webmasters

http://www.world-webmasters.org/

Received on Friday, 28 August 1998 14:45:05 UTC