NEWARK, Jan. 25 – The New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a seminar on two new developments in multimedia technology on Tuesday, January 30, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Room 1400, first floor, Guttenberg Information Technologies Center, Newark.

Jack Montealegre, an application developer at G. Triad, East Hanover, will speak on "Integrating Flash with Middleware Languages to Produce Cutting Edge Applications." A colleague, George Jagodzinski, also an application developer at G. Triad, will address "Generator and Flash Action Scripting."

The seminar series, which is held the last Tuesday of every month, features industry professionals discussing the latest technological developments in multimedia applications. The seminars are sponsored by the Multimedia Production and Internet Delivery Studio of the New Jersey Center for Multimedia Research, based at NJIT and Princeton, the NJIT department of industrial and manufacturing engineering, and the MacroMedia Users group, a multimedia industry group.

Admission to the seminar is free. Refreshments are provided. For more information, contact Golgen Bengu, associate director of the New Jersey Center for Multimedia Research, at 973-596-3656 or Richard Lobel, MacroMedia Users Group, at rlobel@mindspring.com. Visit the New Jersey Center for Multimedia Research Web site at, www.njcmr.org/tutorials/macromedia3.gif, for upcoming seminar information.

NJIT is a public research university enrolling over 8,200 bachelor's, master's and doctoral students in 80 degree programs through its five colleges: Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey School of Architecture, College of Science and Liberal Arts, the School of Management and the Albert Dorman Honors College. Research initiatives include manufacturing, microelectronics, multimedia, transportation, computer science, solar astrophysics, environmental engineering and science, and architecture and building science.

According to Yahoo! Internet Life magazine rankings, NJIT has been America's most wired public university for three consecutive years. U.S. News and World Report's 1999 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges ranked NJIT among the nation's top universities, and Money magazine's most recent issue of Best College Buys rated NJIT as the sixth best value among U.S. science and technology schools and among the top 100 overall. In September 1999, Mademoiselle ranked NJIT as the second most Internet-connected university in the nation.