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Ralf Steinmetz

Ralf Steinmetz (born 31 July 1956 in Santiago de Chile, Chile) is a German computer scientist and electrical engineer. He is professor of multimedia communication at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.

In the eighties Steinmetz coined and sharpened the term multimedia. He did fundamental work in the field of the perception of synchronicity in multimedia flows. At TU Darmstadt Steinmetz is working on realizing truly seamless multimedia communication. His research interests include communication services, IT architectures, knowledge media, mobile networking, networked gaming, network mechanisms & quality of service, peer-to-peer networking, network security & trust and ubiquitous computing. Provided by Wikipedia