How the Internet helps build collaborative multimedia applications

Communications of the ACMPublished 1 January 1999Open access

John R. Nicol, Yechezkal Shimon Gutfreund, Jim Paschetto, Kimberly S. Rush, Christopher Martin

DOI10.1145/291469.291474

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The recent Internet revolution has greatly affected construction of networked multimedia applications, and new approaches to distributing application logic and coordinating distributed processing have claimed the attention of application developers.

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article Free Access Share on How the Internet helps build collaborative multimedia applications Authors: John R. Nicol GTE Labs Inc., Waltham, MA GTE Labs Inc., Waltham, MAView Profile , Yechezkal S. Gutfreund View Profile , Jim Paschetto GTE Labs Inc., Waltham, MA GTE Labs Inc., Waltham, MAView Profile , Kimberly S. Rush GTE Labs Inc., Waltham, MA GTE Labs Inc., Waltham, MAView Profile , Christopher Martin GTE Labs Inc., Waltham, MA GTE Labs Inc., Waltham, MAView Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 42Issue 1Jan. 1999 pp 79–85https://doi.org/10.1145/291469.291474Published:01 January 1999Publication History 15citation1,113DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations15Total Downloads1,113Last 12 Months70Last 6 weeks1 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteView all FormatsPDF

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