The vuSystem: A programming system for compute-intensive multimedia

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1298-1313

  Lindblad, Christopher J ^a,b,c,d,e   Tennenhouse, David L ^a,b,f,g,h  

^a IEEE

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Infoseek Corporation   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h Sloan School of Management ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTE INTENSIVE MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030246467     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.536481     Document Type: Article

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