The Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in the University of Southern California’s School of Engineering, is a preeminent multimedia and Internet research center. IMSC seeks to develop integrated media systems that dramatically transform the way we work, communicate, learn, teach, and entertain. In an integrated media system, advanced media technologies combine, deliver, and transform information in the form of images, video, audio, animation, graphics, text, and haptics (touch-related technologies). IMSC Press, in partnership with Prentice Hall, publishes cutting-edge research on multimedia and Internet topics. IMSC Press is part of IMSC’s educational outreach program.