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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 …