The Christian religion explains the mess of the world we live in with the Original Sin that has destroyed the good nature that would otherwise be in us. The Original Sin cannot be undone but Baptism and adherence to the Religion's precepts promise to make us reborn people. How can this help sorting out the European mess experienced of these days? Here, too, we have an original sin: greedy Greek politicians bent on lighting new debts from greedier bankers bent…
It is hard to legislate when the matter at hand is constantly changing. This is the case of the recent recommendation of the European Parliament (EP) to introduce regulation of internet search and break up Google. It is not the first time public authorities break up companies: they did it in 1911 with Standard Oil Co. Inc. But that decision was more than a century ago and was about a company that was controlling too many “atoms” (actually molecules) that…
Leonardo has been invited to give a speech at Chengkung University with the title Multimedia technologies for improved 3D user experience.
The 39th DMP meeting reviewed the Web TVOS Framework API and produced v1.1 of the specification. For GA40 the following contributions are expected A drawing explaining operation of the specification in a client-server mode A rationale and a list of changes/extensions effected to the TVAnytime specification to produce this specification A study on what makes this specification different from other specifications. In case the differences are small metadata schema identification will be supported, if they are large a revised version…
The 38th DMP meeting reviewed submissions and created a workplan for its 3rd series of DMP specifications that aims to define a comprehensive system view of media services that are based on a main broadcasting service supplemented by interactive and personalised services delivered via the internet. The specification will include a general model of Hybrid-Delivery Media Services (HDMS) and their stakeholders, HDMS requirements, system-wide interfaces and user application interfaces.
Leonardo gave the keynote speech on the opening day at 3DSA with the title The Long March to 3D Video.
