What does hypermedia mean and why is it important for the general user?
The terms hypertext and hypermedia were coined by Ted Nelson in the 1960s to describe the idea of using computers to link, or cross-reference, documents (hypertext). If you allow the documents to include multimedia material (images, video, etc), then we talk about hypermedia. This concept formed the basis of Tim Berners-Lee’s ideas that evolved into the web in the 1990s. We are all used to clicking on items in web documents to follow links to other documents. This is hypermedia. What is the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) research group? I founded the Multimedia Research Group (MMRG) in 1992. At that time, we were working on several different types of hypermedia and multimedia systems. The research vision of the group included the development of personalised information systems implemented using agent-based computing techniques. In 1999, two new professors joined the group: an AI specialist and a pioneer of agent-based computing. The group was renamed the IAM. It is now well ove
