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Distributed and Interactive Systems group news
CWI Researchers Improve Multimedia Language SMIL
On 1 December 2008 the multimedia language SMIL3.0 was announced as W3C Recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Best Paper Award for SMIL State research
At the ACM DocEngineering Symposium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Jack Jansen and Dick Bulterman received the Best Paper Award.
Best Paper Award for Interactive Television Research
The award was granted to CWI researchers.
Dick C.A. Bulterman appointed professor of Distributed Multimedia Languages and Infrastructures
On 1 March 2008, CWI researcher Dick Bulterman was appointed professor of Distributed Multimedia Languages and Infrastructures at the VU University Amsterdam (VU). At the VU Bulterman will work within the Business, …
CWI contributes to SMIL 2.1 W3C Recommendation
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released SMIL 2.1, the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, as a W3C Recommendation on December 13, 2005. With SMIL, authors can create interactive multimedia presentations and animations …
CWI contributes to next generation web forms
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released a new Recommendation for online forms called XForms 1.0. Surfers can use these forms to submit information on websites. CWI-researcher Steven Pemberton presided the …
W3C accepts New Multimedia Standard for Web Presentations
The W3C consortium has accepted a new standard for multimediapresentations on the Internet. This was announced by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium's director and inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW), in a …
