Tutorial 1: The Synchronized Multimedia Interaction Language (SMIL)

Instructors: Lloyd Rutledge & Linda Hardman

Time: Friday, June 2 PM

Description

SMIL is a W3C recommendation, approved in June 1998 and quickly gaining popularity, which provides a vendor-independent, declarative language for hypermedia presentations on the Web. With at least three players currently available, and with more and more presentations being posted on the Web, SMIL promises to do for interactive multimedia what HTML did for hypertext: bring it into every living room with an easy-to-author, readily implementable format and easily accessible players for it. Its official specification is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil.

Instructor information

Lloyd Rutledge researches the creation and processing of adaptive hypermedia using international standards and Web tools. He is active in the XML community and is a member of the XLink/XPointer working group. Lloyd Rutledge received his Doctor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1996. Lynda Hardman researches hypermedia document models, hypermedia authoring systems and more automated generation of hypermedia documents. She was involved in the development of the Guide hypertext system. She received her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam.