| "Describes ITU H H.323 and H.324, H.263, ITU-T video, and MPEG-4 standards, systems, and coding; IP and ATM networks; multimedia search and retrieval; image retrieval in digital laboratories; and the status and direction of MPEG-7."
We humans, being social creatures, have historically felt the need for increasingly sophisticated means to express ourselves through, for example, conversation, stories, pictures, entertainment, social interaction, and collaboration. Over time, our means of expression have included grunts of speech, storytelling, cave paintings, smoke signals, formal languages, stone tablets, printed newspapers and books, telegraphs, telephones, phonographs, radios, theaters and movies, television, personal computers (PCs), compact disc (CD) players, digital versatile disc (DVD) players, mobile phones and similar devices, and the Internet.
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