OUR MISSION

The goal of our research group is to make multimedia data first class data types in our computing environment. To this end, we are building technologies supporting the storage, communication, and processing of multimedia data. In contrast to other commercial and research approaches, which require specialized hardware, operating systems, or networks to be usable, the technologies we are designing fit into the current research environment. Our premise is that the current hardware, software, and communication infrastructure is sufficient to support research into continuous media systems and applications. We are verifying this hypothesis by building working systems.

Our Approach to Research

Our group uses an systems approach to building applications. We find "killer applications" that can almost be built using the current technology, and try to build them. In doing so, we inevitably find components of the application that require new algorithms, we optimize interactions between the components, and we build frameworks for combining the components. The value in such research is in the study of the interaction between components, the occasional creation of component technologies, and the spin-off technologies that result. Examples of such spin-offs are Tcl-DP and the Berkeley MPEG player (both of which were developed while building CMT).

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