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Multimedia electronic mail: will the dream become a reality?

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 34 , Issue 4 (April 1991) table of contents
Special issue on digital multimedia systems

Pages: 117 - 119

Year of Publication: 1991

ISSN:0001-0782

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Nathaniel S. Borenstein

Bellcore, Morristown, NJ

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Borenstein, N.S. Report of multimedia mail workshop. IFIP WG 6.5 International Symposium on Message Handling Systems (Zurich, Oct. 1990).
	2	Borenstein, N.S., Everhart, C.F., Rosenberg, J, and Stoller, A. Architectural issues in the Andrew message system, in Message Handling Systems and Distributed Applications, E. Stefferud, O-J. Jacobsen, and P. Schicker, E ds., North-Holland, 1989, 471- 487,
	3	Nathaniel S. Borenstein , Chris A. Thyberg, Power, ease of use and cooperative work in a practical multimedia message system, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, v.34 n.2, p.229-259, Feb. 1991 [doi>10.1016/0020-7373(91)90043-7]
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	6	"Microsoft Mail User's Guide. Microsoft Corporation, Apple MacintOSh Series, Redmond, Washington, 1989.
	7	::Mail- Multimedia Communications. NeXT Users Reference Manual, Part Five, NeXT, Inc., 1989, 279-312.
	8	Robinson, D, and Ulimann, R. Encoding header field for internet messages. RFC 1154, Network information Center, Apr. 1990.
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CITED BY 8

	James L. Green, The evolution of DVI system software, Communications of the ACM, v.35 n.1, p.52-67, Jan. 1992
	K. Lenssen, Enabling hypermedia messaging: BPRM—a body part relationship module, Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Multimedia, p.157-163, October 15-20, 1994, San Francisco, California, United States
	Nathanial S. Borenstein, Computational mail as network infrastructure for computer-supported cooperative work, Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work, p.67-74, November 01-04, 1992, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	Edward A. Fox, Standards and the emergence of digital multimedia systems, Communications of the ACM, v.34 n.4, p.26-29, April 1991
	Edward A. Fox, Advances in Interactive Digital Multimedia Systems, Computer, v.24 n.10, p.9-21, October 1991
	Walt Donovan , Paolo Sabella , Ihtisham Kabir , Michael M. Hsieh, Pixel Processing in a Memory Controller, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, v.15 n.1, p.51-61, January 1995
	Murugappan Palaniappan , George Fitzmaurice, InternetExpress: An Inter-Desktop Multimedia Data-Transfer Service, Computer, v.24 n.10, p.58-67, October 1991
	Maria C. Yuang , J. G. Liu , Y. G. Chen , J. C. Liu, DMTS: A Distributed Multimedia Teleworking System, Multimedia Tools and Applications, v.7 n.3, p.227-240, November 1998

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
H.4.3 Communications Applications
Subjects: Electronic mail

Additional Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
H.2.5 Heterogeneous Databases
Subjects: Data translation**
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)

General Terms:
Design, Management, Standardization

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The author notes that electronic mail can include the capability to “mail” not only conventional text messages within single systems, but also formatted text, pictures, animation, audio, video, and more. Widespread use of electroni more...

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