The technology framework: lack of standards and the huge bandwidth appetite of full-motion multimedia are very present obstacles but won't be for long
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The entire computer industry will benefit from the use of full-motion, video-based multimedia computing once the roadblocks to its implementation are removed, such as the excess of data required to represent a voice or video signal. The gap between multimedia developers and users is already narrowing with a new generation of multimedia authoring tools, including DOS- and Windows-based professional and business applications for use on X86-based microcomputers, Macintosh-based entertainment and education applications, and Unix workstation tools for engineering and professional applications. The applications will rely heavily on hypertext, which provides a common object-oriented methodology of associative linking. However, the majority of multimedia computing solutions largely remain makeshift solutions.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1993
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Untangling a new breast cancer screening technology
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Fermiscan Holdings plans to commercialize a breast-cancer-screening technology that would replace X-ray mammography by testing a hair sample with the use of a synchrotron. The technique is based on technology licensed from physics professor Veronica James who found a difference in the diffraction pattern from hair samples of women with breast cancer. James' technique, however, has not been reproduced by at least seven research groups.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2008
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