Many people are familiar with audio and video codecs, but who knows how many other technologies are required to enable audio or video streaming? One such technology, largely unknown but nonetheless indispensable, is the Common Media Application Format (CMAF), developed by the leading standardization organization in the media world: MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group). MPEG was honored with the Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for the CMAF standardization in early December and...
Computer Science meets Musicology
Where else could the disciplines of computer science and musicology meet than in digital humanities – the intersection of digital technologies and humanities? This is precisely where Meinard Müller and Christof Weiß of the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen search for computational answers to musicological questions within the works of Richard Wagner and Ludwig van Beethoven.
