BANGALORE, March 3: Intel has set up a multimedia facility at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Inaugurating the facility here on Tuesday its South Asia director Atul Vijaykar said this facility will focus on multimedia research related activities to develop software and multimedia computer aided instruction material.The purpose of this facility is to make the latest technology available to the academic community and Intel in turn will benefit from some of the research conducted in the laboratory, he said. The research undertaken by the institute in digital audio and video compression techniques will be for expanding the industry standard specification called MPEG. The research will also include MPEG encoding and decoding, MPEG editing, content based video retrieval and MPEG II and IV. According to Intel India Technology Centre director K Sivakumar, this facility will consist of over a dozen Pentium II processor 300 MHz desktop systems and two Pentium II dual processor servers.
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