Aus dem Inhalt:
Vorwort
- Einleitung
- Medien und Datenströme
- Audiotechnik
- Bilder und Grafiken
- Videotechnik
- Computerbasierte Animation
- Datenkompression
- Rechnerarchitektur
- Optische Speichermedien
- Dienstgüte
- Betriebssysteme
- Medien-Server
- Datenbanksysteme
- Netze
- Kommunikation
- Programmierung
- Gruppenkommunikation
- Synchronisation
- Sicherheit
- Dokumente, Hypertext und Hypermedia
- Inhaltsanalyse
- Design
- Benutzungsoberflächen
- Multimediales Lernen
- Multimedia-Anwendungen
- Literaturverzeichnis
- Stichwortverzeichnis
- Abkürzungen

Prof. Ralf Steinmetz worked for over nine years in industrial research and development of distributed multimedia systems and applications. Since 1996 he is the head of the Multimedia Communications Lab at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. From 1997 to 2001 he directed the Fraunhofer (former GMD) Integrated Publishing Systems Institute IPSI in Darmstadt. In 1999 he founded the Hessian Telemedia Technology Competence Center (httc e.V.).§His thematic focus in research and teaching is on multimedia communications with his vision of real "seamless multimedia communications". With over 200 refereed publications he has become ICCC Governor in 1999; was awarded the ranking of Fellow of both, the IEEE in 1999 and the ACM in 2002.