Student Media Interactive (SMI) is Marquette University's student-run World Wide Web development agency. SMI is responsible for the presence of all outlets of Marquette University Student Media on the web.
History Student Media Interactive began existing in its present form in 2003,Student Media Interactive - Marquette University College of Communication when the Diederich College of Communication had a problem: content from all of its Student Media outlets had been produced but had no way of being displayed within the college's main building, Robert A. Johnston Hall. Freshman Paul Hinze and sophomore Michael Schultz were asked to create such a system, using two 30-inch Apple Cinema displays, a Power Mac G5 and Adobe Flash. The project, dubbed WindowBox, was completed roughly a year later. It consisted of XML files of media data being fed to Flash, and jointly displayed on the twin screens. Schultz and Hinze remained employed by the college to work on other technological projects.
Staff SMI is typically staffed by five people: one director, two programmers, and two designers.
Directors The following table lists former and current directors of Student Media Interactive.
Academic years Director2006-2007Michael Shultz (Co-Director)Paul Hinze (Co-Director)2007-2008Paul Hinze2008-2009John Luetke
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