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2008 prototype made of transparent silicon

Zoomable User Interfaces 

Zoomable FileSystem Viewer

Codename: FILEMAGE. New prototype of a zoomable file-system viewer, really faster! The successor of ZDESKTOP.

    Explorer & Picture Manager                 FileMage view

Codename: ZDESKTOP. Prototype of a zoomable user interface (ZUI) developed at the University of Bergamo (Engineering faculty) . It is written in Java and it is based on Piccolo Toolkit. The project is owned and sponsored by STMicroelectronics. All rights reserved.

Classical Explorer View                 Zoomable View (ZDesktop)

Distributed Systems

Peer2Peer Next 

Codename: P2PNEXT. Prototype of a new peer2peer system for live streaming, streaming on demand and download. The project is done by STMicroelectronics and several other partners. It has been approved and it is sponsored by the European Community (FP7 research program).

This new system will include:

• • Latest generation Scalable Video coding (SVC)

  • LDPC digital fountains for application-layer recovery

  • Standard-compatible Multiple Description coding (MDC)

  • Audio Adaptive Playout

  • Zoomable User Interface (ZUI)