This course introduces the concepts, issues, design, implementation, standards and applications of multimedia technologies. The media to be considered include text, digital audio, digital image, digital video, and their integration. The course covers basics and applications of analog and digital media. It discusses the characteristics, mathematical foundation, compression and processing of digital multimedia data including: audio, image (JPEG) and video (MPEG). It also covers standards in digital multimedia data such as MP3, JPEG, MPEG as well as the environment in which digital multimedia data are used, including multimedia architecture, indexing and retrieval, hypermedia and WWW.