Recommended Course Books

The following book is the core text for this module:

• Multimedia Communications: Applications, Networks, Protocols and Standards, Fred Halsall, Addison Wesley, 2000 (ISBN 0-201-39818-4)

  OR

• Networked Multimedia Systems, Raghavan and Tripathi, Prentice Hall, (ISBN 0-13-210642)

The following books are highly recommended reading:

• Hypermedia and the Web: An Engineering Approach, D. Lowe and W. Hall, J. Wiley and Sons, 1999 (ISBN 0-471-98312-8).
• Multimedia Systems, J.F.K, Buford, ACM Press, 1994 (ISBN 0-201-53258-1).
• Understanding Networked Multimedia, Fluckiger, Prentice Hall, (ISBN 0-13-190992-4)
• Design for Multimedia Learning, Boyle, Prentice Hall, (ISBN 0-13-242215-8)
• Distributed Multimedia:Technologies, Applications, and Opportunities in the Digital Information Industry (1st Edition) P.W. Agnew and A.S. Kellerman , Addison Wesley, 1996 (ISBN 0-201-76536-5)
• Multimedia Communication, Sloane, McGraw Hill, (ISBN 0-077092228)
• Virtual Reality Systems, J. Vince, Addison Wesley, 1995 (ISBN 0-201-87687-6)
• Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats, Second Edition by James D. Murray and William vanRyper, O'Reilly & Associates, 1996 (ISBN: 1-56592-161-5)

The following provide good reference material for parts of the module:

Multimedia Systems

• Hyperwave:The Next Generation Web Solution, H. Maurer, Addison Wesley, 1996 (ISBn 0-201-40346).

Digital Audio

• A programmer's Guide to Sound, T. Kientzle, Addison Wesley, 1997 (ISBN 0-201-41972-6)
• Audio on the Web -- The official IUMA Guide, Patterson and Melcher, Peachpit Press.
• The Art of Digital Audio, Watkinson, Focal/Butterworth-Heinmann.
• Synthesiser Basics, GPI Publications.
• Signal Processing: Principles and Applications, Brook and Wynne, Hodder and Stoughton.
• Digital Signal Processing, Oppenheim and Schafer, Prentice Hall.

Digital Imaging/Graphics/Video

• Digital video processing, A.M. Tekalp, Prentice Hall PTR, 1995.
• Intro. to Computer Pictures, http://ac.dal.ca:80/ dong/image.htm from Allison Zhang at the School of Library and Information Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
• http://www.cica.indiana.edu/graphics/image.formats.html contains a comprehensive list of various graphics/image file formats.
• Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats, Second Edition by James D. Murray and William vanRyper, 1996, O'Reilly & Associates.

Data Compression

• The Data Compression Book, Mark Nelson,M&T Books, 1995.
• Introduction to Data Compression, Khalid Sayood, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996.
• G.K. Wallace, The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard

• CCITT, Recommendation H.261

• D. Le Gall, MPEG: A Video Compression Standard for Multimedia Applications

• K. Patel, et. al., Performance of a Software MPEG Video Decoder

• P. Cosman, et. al., Using Vector Quantization for Image Processing

Animation

• Animation on the Web, S. Wagstaff, Peachpit Press, 1999 (ISBN 0-201-69687)

Multimedia Authoring

• Creating and Designing Multimedia with Director, P. Petrik and B. Dubrovsky, Prentice Hall, 1997 (ISBN 0-13-528985-8)

User Interface Design Issues

• Human Computer Interaction, A. Dix et al, Printice Hall, 1998 (ISBN 0-13-239864)
• Designing the User Interface , B. Schneiderman, Addison Wesley, 1998 (ISBN 0-201-694497)
• Human Computer Interaction, Preece et al, Addison Wesley, 1994, 0-201-62769-8)

Multimedia Databases

• Multimedia Database Management Systems, B Prbhakaran, Kluwer, 1997, (ISBN 0-7923-9784-3).

Internet/WWW related Books

Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 3.2 in 14 Days, Laura Lemay, Sams.Net Publishing.

The Internet Unleashed, J. Ellsworth, B. Baron, et al., Sams.Net Publishing

WWW, Internet in General

• The Internet Complete Reference(2nd Ed.), H. Hahn, McGraw-Hill
• Webmaster in a Nutshell, S. Spainhour and V. Quercia, O'Reilly and Associates Inc.
• Every Student's Guide to the World Wide Web, K. Pitter and R. Minato, McGraw Hill
• Every Student's Guide to the World Wide Web (Macintosh Version), K. Pitter and R. Minato, McGraw Hill

Internet -- Theory and Practice

• Demystifying TCP/IP, E. Taylor, Wordware Publishing Inc.

HTML BOOKS:

• HTML Sourcebook, I.S. Graham, Wiley and Sons
• HTML: The Definitive Guide, C. Musciano and B. Kennedy, O'Reilly and Associates Inc.

CGI Scripts / Perl Programming BOOKS:

• Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl 5 in a Week, E. Herrmann, Sams.Net
• CGI Developer's Guide, E.E. Kim, Sams.Net
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web, S. Gundavaram, O'Reilly and Associates Inc.
• Learning Perl, R.L. Schwartz, O'Reilly and Associates Inc.
• Programming Perl, L. Wall, T. Christiansen and R.L. Schwartz, O'Reilly and Associates Inc.
• Perl 5 Desktop Reference, J. Vromans, O'Reilly and Associates Inc.

WWW Design Issues BOOKS:

• Designing with Style Sheets, Tables, and Frames, M.E. Holzschlag, Sams.Net
• HTML Style Sheets Quick Reference, R. Falla, Que
• 10 Minute Guide to HTML Style Sheets, C. Zacker, Que
• Teach Yourself Great Web Design in a Week, A. Vasquez-Peterson and P. Chow, Sams.Net
• Designing for the Web, Jennifer Niederst, O'Reilly and Associates
• GIF Animation Studio: Animating Your Web Site, R. Koman, O'Reilly and Associates

A comprehensive guide to all Internet related books is available at

the Unofficial Internet Book List WWW site (URL: http://www.savetz.com/booklist/)

Unofficial Internet Book List