0CISC 3630 EW6 Fall 2025

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Note: This course is considered to be a senior level elective. It is expected that the student will devote a significant amount of time outside of class on research, programming and project activities.

This course is a survey of the interrelationship of state-of-the-art communication and computer technology. Hardware, software, and system design issues in the multimedia presentation of information. Multimedia standards. Audio and video compression techniques. Hypermedia database systems. Programming and the use of multimedia authoring systems. Survey of representative hypermedia applications.

Textbooks

• Please visit the library proxy to gain access to Fundamentals of Multimedia for free. We will only use select parts from this text. Don't be scared away from the math, we will skip most of the formulas.

TOPICS

1. Fundamentals of Multimedia Information
2. Multimedia Hardware
3. Multimedia Software
4. Multimedia Platforms
5. Multimedia Programming
6. The creative process: hardware, software, development team and methodology
7. Media Types Media Objects (Implementations and methods)
8. Multimedia and the Internet
9. Multimedia Systems survey (science, entertainment, gaming, etc.)
10. Design Issues
11. Compression & Encoding Techniques

PREREQUISITE CISC 3130 ("Data Structures" formally CIS 22)

GRADING

• 10% Participation
• 5% HWs
• 25% Midterm
• 30% Projects: PowerPoint Kiosk, Adobe Animate, HTML5 Mobile, Editing Media Files, etc
• 30% Final Exam

Academic Integrity

The faculty and administration of Brooklyn College support an environment free from cheating and plagiarism. Each student is responsible for being aware of what constitutes cheating and plagiarism and for avoiding both. The complete text of the CUNY Academic Integrity Policy and the Brooklyn College procedure for policy implementation can be found at www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/policies . If a faculty member suspects a violation of academic integrity and, upon investigation, confirms that violation, or if the student admits the violation, the faculty member MUST report the violation.

Center for Student Disability Services

In order to receive disability-related academic accommodations students must first be registered with the Center for Student Disability Services. Students who have a documented disability or suspect they may have a disability are invited to set up an appointment with the Director of the Center for Student Disability Services, Ms. Valerie Stewart-Lovell at 718-951-5538. If you have already registered with the Center for Student Disability Services, please provide your professor with the course accommodation form and discuss your specific accommodation with him/her.

Student Bereavement Policy:   Click here

Bring up topics to discuss in class. I would like to have discussions about various Multimedia topics. Please look at computer news sites to bring up timely news.

Updated withdrawal deadline: The withdrawal deadline for Fall 2025 is Thursday, November 6.

Useful HTML5 Links 

• Bootstrap
• Using jQuery Mobile
• jQuery Tutorial
• Example from HTML5 The Missing Manual
• Mobilizing websites with responsive design and HTML5 tutorial
• "Mobifying" Your HTML5 Site
• HTML5 Tutorial
• HTML5 Hype
• HTML5 Media
• HTML5 Images

You will need a Dropbox account for the class. Create a folder titled Last,First and CISC 3630. So if your name is John Doe make a folder called: Doe, John CISC 3630. Once the folder has been created, please Invite me (right click the folder and select Share (Share with Dropbox)) to the folder with my Dropbox email address of dropbox@lawrencegoetz.com

Class	Topics	Readings	Assignments
8/27	Multimedia History Slides 1 Data Types Slides 2	Read from the following: Read chapter 1 of Fundamentals of Multimedia Read this writeup about the Dynabook prior to the next class meeting. Read this article from 1945 about The Memex skim through the various sections before next class. Ask Gemini about the various parts if you were curious how it worked. He was talking about real world devices imagining how they could work together and used in an unusual way.	First login to the: EZ Proxy Now you can download: book for the class. Please prepare some notes about the Dynabook and Memex for next class
9/3	Authoring Slides 10 Sample Kiosk we did in class a previous term. Notes	Read chapter 2 of Fundamentals of Multimedia, look at the simple multiplication formulas, ignore all the others. We will go algorithms into later on in the term for compression. Read Before Class: Overview of Multimedia Authoring We will discuss the Dynabook and The Memex  today in class.	projects-powerpoint Due Sept 24th
9/10	Multimedia Development Slides 11 Powerpoint	Read Unit 3,4 Pages 39-55 in this Book
9/18	Text Slides 5 Notes Text in Multimedia Web Design Intro	1.5 Text in Multimedia Pages 31-38 in this Book Read before class: HTML Introduction Read after class: More detailed version of the slides from class, also it's more detail that required for class. But if you are curious, it's very thorough	"QUIZ" on Brightspace. It's like a HW of multiple choice questions.
9/24 & 10/01 No Classes
10/08 & 10/15 NOT IN PERSON! Please view the slides and watch the videos on your own time.	Media on the Web Slides BootStrap videos Please watch videos 1 through 9 Tutorials for your curiosity: BootStrap BootStrap Tutorial WebPage Basics	Read Chapters 5 & 7 from this Book BootStrap Quick Tips  Tips: Responsive Web Design Viewport Grid View
10/22	Graphics Notes	1.2 Graphics and Image Data Representations Pages 15-30 in this Book Glace at these. JPG: 1,2 Image Types	Watch these videos (Before 11/05): Digital Images Color Spaces Video Watch these JPEG Videos: Part 1 Part 2 How are Images Compressed Review Topics/Questions
10/29 Midterm	Review Topics/Questions The exam will be short answer questions in class
11/5	Graphics Continued How Cameras Work Animation	From this Book - Read from Chapter 1 pages in the book 1-9, you can gloss over the rest ignoring all the math equations that you cannot read or understand. But try to look to get the gist of things. Interesting video explaining how GPUs work. For your general interest, we are not covering these details in the course. But it's very interesting to see what goes on inside a GPU. From this Book - Read from Chapter 8 pages in the book 153 (8.2)-158 From this Book - Read from Chapter 2 pages in the book 31-41 Do not be concerned with the complex math equations or even if you cannot read the equation. Focus on the general concepts.	HW: Graphics Questions Watch this video explaining JPEG. We will go over how video compression works at a later point in the semester.

Sept 24th & Oct 1st no classes at the college

Oct 8th & Oct 15th I have slides & videos in lieu of class meetings which I will be unavailable.

Midterm on Oct 29th, Review Topics/Questions

 

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