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The Infinity Project curriculum focuses on the fundamentals of
the communications and information age. To grab students' attention,
examples are drawn from multimedia technology popular in today's
culture. In addition to the detailed content, the curriculum demonstrates
how modern engineers use math, science, and ingenuity to design
and build new technologies.
The complete curriculum is composed of both a textbook and a
set of computer-based designs and experiments using the Infinity
Technology Kit.
 Textbook:
The Textbook entitled Multimedia and Information Engineering
is composed of twenty chapters covering a wide variety of topics
relevant to Internet technologies, entertainment, medicine, and
communications. As one overarching theme of the book, students
are exposed to fundamental issues describing how modern computer-based
systems collect, enhance, store, and move information and data
in the digital era. Applications are drawn from a wide array of
modern devices and systems seen today.
The chapter titles are given in the attached Table
of Contents.
Computer-Based Designs and Experiments: We have attempted
to utilize many hands-on experiments to demonstrate the basic
concepts described in the textbook. Each experiment is based on
VAB™ is graphical software interface and utilizes the DSP
hardware in the Infinity Technology Kit. Nearly all of the experiments
and designs include video, audio, or graphics so they are fun
for students and teachers to learn from and play with.
Students have the opportunity to work on designs of computer
systems which count money, track moving objects, and move digital
data through the airwaves.
Acquiring the Curriculum Textbook: Our curriculum has
been published as a textbook by Prentice Hall. The current book
title is Preliminary Version: Multimedia and Information Engineering.
ISBN: 013035483X. You can acquire the book for your class by contacting
Prentice Hall at 1-800-374-1200, or 1-800-929-0579. Additonal
questions regarding the textbook should be addressed to tom_robbins@prenhall.com
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