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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at DoD Modernization Users Group Meeting San Diego on 24 June 97. Foils prepared 27 June 97
Outside Index Summary of Material

This discusses architecture of proposed WebWisdom electronic education and training system which is designed for both distance and local applications
We describe experiences that were put into design of WebWisdom
We discuss particular features including core database, administration, collaboration, disabled interfaces, digital video , VRML and Geographical Information Systems

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1 Futures and Features of WebWisdom Electronic Education and Training
2 Abstract of WebWisdom Training and Education System
3 WebWisdom Architecture and Design
4 Architecture of WebWisdom Education Delivery System
5 WebWisdom Design Details - I
6 WebWisdom Design Details - II
7 WebWisdom Design Details - III
8 Sources of NPAC Experience in different education and training areas
9 NPAC Education Projects
10 K-12: Living SchoolBook http://lsb.syr.edu
11 Special Education http://www.pulsar.org
12 Undergraduate Education http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modsim.html
13 Graduate Education/Continuing Education http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/wisdom/help/ http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/cps615fall96/ http://www.npac.syr.edu/education/web/
14 Industry Outreach: Syracuse Language Systems http://www.syrlang.com/
15 Summary of Web Opportunities in Education and Training
16 Opportunities in Education - I
17 Opportunities in Education - II
18 Database Examples for WebWisdom
19 A Web Search Interface for NewsBank News Database
20 Search in NPAC Web site
21 AskNPAC Internet Service for a Searchable USENET Newsgroup and Mailing List Archive
22 A Web-based Document Management System for NPAC TEchnical Reports
23 Database Support in CareWeb
24 Carrier Catalog Database Search Home Page
25 Syracuse Language System Language Connect University - Web/Database Architecture
26 Syracuse Language System Administrative tools for faculties.
27 Why use a Database at Core of WebWisdom?
28 TANGO Collaboratory http://www.npac.syr.edu/tango/
29 TANGO Collaboration Model
30 Role of Collaboratory Systems
31 TANGO2 Guiding Principles
32 TANGO Applications with their participants
33 Tango Applications in Education
34 Tango Screen: Talking Heads and White Board
35 Tango Screen: Physics Applets -- Cross Product, Planets and Neural Network
36 Tango Application to Education
37 Distributed Tango WebWisdom
38 WebPersuasion -- Javabean Foilsets
39 RCIHalloween Presentation Foil on WebFoil in WebFoil!!
40 Features of a JavaBean Foilset
41 Graphics in the New Tango white Board
42 New Tango white Board in Collaborative Mode
43 Outreach to Disabled Community
44 The Neat Thing in Action I
45 Use of GIS/VRML on Demand in WebWisdom
46 NPAC 3D Visible Human Room in VRML2. II
47 NPAC 3D Visible Human Room in VRML2. I
48 Collection of Shared Applications (incl 3D Visible Human) in the New Tango
49 Connection with the database containing Census & Tiger/Line data.
50 The TANGOsim C2 Application
51 A demo of animated objects controlled by simulation engine of Tango collaborative system - III
52 A scene from a military scenario, controlled by Simulation Engine of the TANGO Collaborative System.
53 Use of Video on Demand in WebWisdom
54 Video on Demand: Features
55 Search interface for video material. An end user performs a category and keyword search on available video clips.
56 Search results: a list of video clips starting with matching keywords in the close caption.
57 Close caption text associated with each clips in a Web browser.
58 Video on Demand/TANGO Integration
59 Master video client integrated with the collaborative environment.
60 What is WebWisdom.org/com

Outside Index Summary of Material

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Foil 1 Futures and Features of WebWisdom Electronic Education and Training

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DoD Users Group Meeting San Diego June 24 97
Geoffrey Fox
Syracuse University NPAC
111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100
3154432163
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Foil 2 Abstract of WebWisdom Training and Education System

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This discusses architecture of proposed WebWisdom electronic education and training system which is designed for both distance and local applications
We describe experiences that were put into design of WebWisdom
We discuss particular features including core database, administration, collaboration, disabled interfaces, digital video , VRML and Geographical Information Systems
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Foil 3 WebWisdom Architecture and Design

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Foil 4 Architecture of WebWisdom Education Delivery System

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Foil 5 WebWisdom Design Details - I

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The layered design includes a secure database at its core on top of which are built a set of services including
  • audio and video servers; basic Web servers and a
  • collaboration subsystem which is heart of both asynchronous and synchronous delivery.
  • This has a set of basic collaboration capabilities including chat, audio-videoconferencing, whiteboard and shared applications.
The communication system supports the worldwide delivery and includes support for distributed databases to get high performance with for instance core courseware replicated on delivery machines with CD-ROM's or other such mechanisms.
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Foil 6 WebWisdom Design Details - II

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The top layer of WebWisdom consists of education and training specific capabilities, which customize and extend the generic middle-layer services.
  • Note assessment relies on database at heart of WebWisdom, which logs synchronous delivery of curricula and records interaction of students with courseware and tools.
  • Authoring and Editing includes audio, video, and Java applet based animations as well as basic text (HTML) material.
    • The latter includes a web presentation system with capabilities similar to PowerPoint and Persuasion but generating directly HTML in a form suitable for presentation.
  • Conversion of Legacy systems includes putting Persuasion Framemaker PowerPoint etc. on the Web.
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Foil 7 WebWisdom Design Details - III

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The delivery system is based on customized shared browser windows for curricula together with more generic collaboration capabilities e.g. audio-videoconferencing is used by students and teachers for traditional voice interactions.
  • The collaboration subsystem must support multiple rooms and many groups of users.
We believe that impressive demonstrations of all the above capabilities have already been prototyped and one can now build such a system.
  • Note that as always in the rapidly changing web field it is critical to build systems in as modular fashion as possible and with the loosest (not tightest) relevant coupling.
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Foil 8 Sources of NPAC Experience in different education and training areas

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Foil 9 NPAC Education Projects

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K-12: Living SchoolBook
Special Education: Interfaces and Edutainment
Undergraduate: Physics and Computer Science
Graduate: Computer Science (Syracuse/China)
Industry: Syracuse Language Systems/WebWisdom
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Foil 10 K-12: Living SchoolBook http://lsb.syr.edu

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Syracuse University School of Education, NYNEX, Rome Laboratory
ATM Connection to 3 schools in CNY
Web-linked Database Access to CD-Rom's (Newsbank)
Video on Demand for commercial and student/teacher material
  • Search text index from programming/closed captions
3D Interactive Journey through New York State (20 meter data with Census and hyperlinks)
  • High performance VRML view of compressed data stored in Illustra database
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Foil 11 Special Education http://www.pulsar.org

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Led by Warner (Medical Doctor and Computational Science Fellow) and Ed Lipson (moving from Biophysics to computational medicine)
Neattools: Interfaces from diverse sensors to PC to Java to allow affordable computer access for disabled -- Quadriplegic Eyal Sherman
SmartDesk: Java/Shockwave games/assessment tools (logged in database) for mentally retarded
Telemedicine and Home Health care applications
Commercial Spin-off: MindTel
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Foil 12 Undergraduate Education http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modsim.html

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Phy105/106 teaches science to non scientists using standard Web resources and a growing number of Java Applets
  • Kinematics, Gravity, Cross Product, Membranes -- several "collaboratized" with Tango
  • Very Popular course -- 250 students each semester
Phy 307/308 modern computational physics course and also using Java
Some resources developed by MRA with Cornell
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Foil 13 Graduate Education/Continuing Education http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/wisdom/help/ http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/cps615fall96/ http://www.npac.syr.edu/education/web/

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All Computational Science, Compiler and Web courses offered through Web
WebWisdom prototype used to deliver courses built from Perl + Java + JavaScript and linked to Tango
VPL Virtual Programming Lab: HPF MPI Perl Java JavaScript Web Laboratory
Offered to China, Continuing Education and regular University
Will offer to DoD and HBCU next year
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Foil 14 Industry Outreach: Syracuse Language Systems http://www.syrlang.com/

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Language Connect University: uses sophisticated database core/administration module built by NPAC spin-off Translet
  • undercuts traditional Universities and aimed at corporate training
SLS leading PC foreign language teaching company (Triple Play Spanish etc.)
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Foil 15 Summary of Web Opportunities in Education and Training

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Foil 16 Opportunities in Education - I

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HTML Java etc will give higher quality basic Curricula with glossaries, database search, hyperlinking etc.
Virtual Laboratories for Science, Programming etc.
  • Use VRML2 for game like science exploratory learning
  • We have JavaScript Perl Java VRML SQL HPF and MPI with Web Interfaces
Voice (RealAudio) and video capture of teacher as augmentation of lecture curricula material
  • record when teacher is delivering to capture adrenalin enhancements!
Searchable video archives for finding critical few minutes clips to use in class
  • More useful than searching 10,000 movies for "Web BlockBuster" which really makes poor use of digital video
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Foil 17 Opportunities in Education - II

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Take Web electronic society technology which link people together and use to join teachers mentors and students
  • Whereas HPCC needs "upscale" collaboration technology, education should be designed so that one can link to peoples' homes and so use democratic technology
Meanwhile can look at VRML2 for Immersive virtual learning environments
All of these technologies can be used either synchronously (organized sessions) or asynchronously (students learn in their own time and interact with teacher/mentor in batch mode)
Log educational sessions (including multimedia material) in databases and use for assesment
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Foil 18 Database Examples for WebWisdom

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NewsBank (CD-ROM originally) for K-12
Search a specific Domain -- e.g. NPAC Web Site
Parallel Oracle host for Usenet News Groups
Secure Database for Document System
CareWeb Patient Record Database
Carrier's Home Page has NPAC built Oracle core for product information
Language Connect University has NPAC Startup Translet Oracle core for administration
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Foil 19 A Web Search Interface for NewsBank News Database

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See (http://osprey7.npac.syr.edu:8080/newsbank)
From Full-Text Web Search Systems for Education part of NPAC Overview May 1997
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Foil 20 Search in NPAC Web site

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See (http://osprey8.npac.syr.edu:1963/search)
From Full-Text Web Search Systems for Education part of NPAC Overview May 1997
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Foil 21 AskNPAC Internet Service for a Searchable USENET Newsgroup and Mailing List Archive

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From Integration of Relational Databases with World Wide Web and Internet part of NPAC Overview May 1997
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Foil 22 A Web-based Document Management System for NPAC TEchnical Reports

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From Integration of Relational Databases with World Wide Web and Internet part of NPAC Overview May 1997
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Foil 23 Database Support in CareWeb

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Foil 24 Carrier Catalog Database Search Home Page

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From Integration of Relational Databases with World Wide Web and Internet part of NPAC Overview May 1997
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Foil 25 Syracuse Language System Language Connect University - Web/Database Architecture

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Designed and built by Translet (Wojtek Furmanski)
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Foil 26 Syracuse Language System Administrative tools for faculties.

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Designed and built by Translet (Wojtek Furmanski)
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Foil 27 Why use a Database at Core of WebWisdom?

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Information can be presented in formats that best fit current state of display technology from Netscape 1.1 HTML to JavaBean White Board
Can track such changes in Web technology!
Can use database to support search of material
Makes support of "play-lists" particularly easy as these are just selected out of separate tables in database (if one table is one foilset say)
Same database can be used in other functions such as administration
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Foil 28 TANGO Collaboratory http://www.npac.syr.edu/tango/

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Java collaboration system built for command and control but being customized for education
Videoconferencing, Whiteboard, Chat system, Video-on-demand, shared browser
supports C++, Java, JavaScript applications
3D GIS (C++), Phy105 simulations (Java), WebWisdom (JavaScript) foil delivery linked
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Foil 29 TANGO Collaboration Model

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TANGO supports client side electronic societies of people, instruments and their applications.
TANGO links these to a network of Java Servers which manage TANGO sessions and interfaces them to the world wide Server Infrastructure that underlies our model of Web applications
  • TANGO does not directly manage world wide servers
Electronic societies or groups are managed by core database in TANGO
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Foil 30 Role of Collaboratory Systems

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Systems like Tango or Habanero built around Java Servers integrate a group of multiple clients as a "Service" at the middle Java Server level
Group of collaborating clients
and client applications
Database
Object Broker
MPP
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Foil 31 TANGO2 Guiding Principles

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"Buy a place at the table" with a core system that is competitive with other commercial and academic systems
Then focus on specific TANGO features to support selected applications
  • Education and Training
  • Medicine (through New York State Industry Outreach)
  • Manufacturing/Multidisciplinary applications (discussed here but no funded activity)
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Foil 32 TANGO Applications with their participants

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Command and Control or more generally distributed (tactical) real-time decision support -- decision makers and gatherers of information
Forums and Chattering on the Web -- the world!
Education -- teachers and students (and administrators)
(Tele)medicine -- Doctors (primary and specialist referrals), Nurses, Patients and administrators
Business Enterprise (strategic) Support as in Lotus Notes -- Employees of Business including especially managers
Multidisciplinary Applications including Collaborative design -- teams of up to 10,000 engineers
Computational Steering -- one or more computational scientist and visualization device
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Foil 33 Tango Applications in Education

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Foil 34 Tango Screen: Talking Heads and White Board

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From Tango - A Java/WWW-Based Internet Collaborative Software System part of NPAC Overview May 1997
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Foil 35 Tango Screen: Physics Applets -- Cross Product, Planets and Neural Network

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From Tango - A Java/WWW-Based Internet Collaborative Software System part of NPAC Overview May 1997
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Foil 36 Tango Application to Education

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Uses linkage of TANGO to JavaScript WebWisdom which supports Persuasion, Powerpoint, HTML and Screendump mixed Presentations with audio (tagged to specific foils) and notes
Full Webwisdom used by Teacher allows access to full curricula and options
Client (Slave) WebWisdom displays pages chosen by teacher (with same audio and notes) and generates automatic HTML index
  • should integrate with HTML editor to allow student annotation
Currently WebWisdom used in non TANGO mode with classic large screen display
TANGO WebWisdom allows one to use same approach to distributed PC's which is surely more attractive (Web font sizes designed for monitors -- not classroom displays)
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Foil 37 Distributed Tango WebWisdom

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To allow use on low speed lines (28.8 kbaud modems), distribute CD ROM of material to students
Client WebWisdom will map URL sent from Teacher WebWisdom to link on PC (if exists) and so ONLY control information is sent on Web
Standard low bit rate codecs support audio and video conferencing over phone lines
For asynchronous learning, ship HTML Index with lesson audio to clients and students use offline with TANGO used to support synchronous audio and video conferencing
Will use in China (already succesfully used material Spring 96 Semester between Syracuse and Harbin) and for Syracuse University "Limited Residency" continuing programs where students visit University once to three times per semester (see Computing for the Future Certificates)
  • Corporate Programs where we substitute limited residency at Syracuse by University team visiting site where many students can congregate
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Foil 38 WebPersuasion -- Javabean Foilsets

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Although we have 384 foilsets imported to the Web -- this is not the correct way of doing it!
  • Microsoft's Word/Powerpoint Internet assistants are just temporary fixes as is my analogous Persuasion system!
Originally we thought a "Web Foil" is an enhanced HTML and we built a prototype using HotJava
However now believe this is not powerful and correct Web implementation of "foils" is a JavaBean stored as a serialized Java Object
  • Base on a powerful WhiteBoard built for next release of Tango
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Foil 39 RCIHalloween Presentation Foil on WebFoil in WebFoil!!

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Initial webfoil 0.1 release Halloween 1995
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Foil 40 Features of a JavaBean Foilset

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Start with a full drawing program supporting "art" and importing of images where basic entities are Java objects
Start with system integrated with Tango
Basic Unit is a "foil" -- typically NOT scrolled (but supporting this)
Foils are arranged into foilsets dynamically as in current WebWisdom and allow notes(addons) etc.
Import existing PowerPoint/Persuasion from "outline" text with automatic font size scaling
  • Note current WebWisdom records whether image has significant information not carried in text
Allow user to add highlighting and images "cut" from original screendump of PC foil
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Foil 41 Graphics in the New Tango white Board

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Latest Tango Capabilities June 97
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Foil 42 New Tango white Board in Collaborative Mode

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Foil 43 Outreach to Disabled Community

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Set of innovative interfaces (pressure, optical, muscle movement) linked to Java applets
Link to web disseminated education
http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/pulsar
  • 4 undergraduates chose this as summer 96 REU (NSF Research experience for Undergraduates)
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Foil 44 The Neat Thing in Action I

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Foil 45 Use of GIS/VRML on Demand in WebWisdom

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VRML has been motivated by virtual environments which may be very important
  • e.g. Build a realistic school in VRML
However one focussed application is to "virtual field-trip" in our K-12 Living SchoolBook where we have a VRML front end to 3D GIS (Geographical Information System).
  • Preset map, image and USGS (TIGER) data and additional material from teachers
Can also use VRML to display results of 3D simulations such as weather predictions
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Foil 46 NPAC 3D Visible Human Room in VRML2. II

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http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/3Dvisiblehuman/VRML/VRML2.0/
From 3D Visualization of Visible Human part of NPAC Overview May 1997
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Foil 47 NPAC 3D Visible Human Room in VRML2. I

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http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/3Dvisiblehuman/VRML/VRML2.0/
From 3D Visualization of Visible Human part of NPAC Overview May 1997
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Foil 48 Collection of Shared Applications (incl 3D Visible Human) in the New Tango

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Foil 49 Connection with the database containing Census & Tiger/Line data.

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Statistical and demographical information for a particular location is displayed on the right.
From Geographic Information System part of NPAC Overview May 1997
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Foil 50 The TANGOsim C2 Application

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TANGO Java
Collaboratory
Server
HTTP
Server
MultiMedia Mail
C2 Commander
Chat
VTC
Event Driven
Simulation
Engine
C2 Radar Officer
3D GIS
Scripting
Language
C2 Weather Officer
Message Routing
SW/Data Distrib.
Other
Collaborators
MultiMedia Mail
Chat
Simulation
Engine Controller
All Clients
Typical Clients
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Foil 51 A demo of animated objects controlled by simulation engine of Tango collaborative system - III

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From Tango Project for CEWES Collaborative Tool Meeting
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Foil 52 A scene from a military scenario, controlled by Simulation Engine of the TANGO Collaborative System.

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The green plane, possibly carrying chemical weapon, is being intercepted over Long Island.
From Geographic Information System part of NPAC Overview May 1997
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Foil 53 Use of Video on Demand in WebWisdom

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Video as used in teaching is typically not complete 90 minute movies but short focussed segments of a few minutes
So text indexed NPAC technology very appropriate in education
  • Note H263(ISDN performance) or MPEG(LAN (Ethernet) performance) data stored in flat files
  • All metadata including closed caption or text indices stored in Web linked Oracle database
  • closed captions read automatically at same time as decoding
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Foil 54 Video on Demand: Features

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A complete, end-to-end system for
  • video delivery over local area networks
  • video contents marketing over Internet
Modular system supporting following functionality:
  • video digitization and compression to high (MPEG1) and low (H.263/GSM) rate formats
  • contents indexing and asset management via relational database backend
  • video server, codec independent and distributed
  • software and hardware supported intelligent multi-codec video clients
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Foil 55 Search interface for video material. An end user performs a category and keyword search on available video clips.

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From Video-on-Demand in NPAC Overview May 1997
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Foil 56 Search results: a list of video clips starting with matching keywords in the close caption.

From Futures and Features of Webwisdom Electronic Education and Training DoD Modernization Users Group Meeting San Diego -- 24 June 97. *
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The end user can choose a movie and request to start playback from any position in the movie related to the keyword.
From Video-on-Demand in NPAC Overview May 1997
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Foil 57 Close caption text associated with each clips in a Web browser.

From Futures and Features of Webwisdom Electronic Education and Training DoD Modernization Users Group Meeting San Diego -- 24 June 97. *
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Links on the HTML page initiate seeking to a particular position in the movie.
The Video Client displays ActiveMovie OLE control with a video window (right lower corner).
ActiveMovie Control Properties window provides an extended interface to the Video Client (right upper corner).
From Video-on-Demand in NPAC Overview May 1997
HTML version of Scripted Foils prepared 27 June 97

Foil 58 Video on Demand/TANGO Integration

From Futures and Features of Webwisdom Electronic Education and Training DoD Modernization Users Group Meeting San Diego -- 24 June 97. *
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Master-slave video client architecture
  • Master client for the teacher
    • has all capabilities of the stand-alone video client, including random access capability
    • uses unicast for server access
    • forwards video streams to a multicast address
  • Slave client for students/general audience
    • start/stop capability only
    • session control via TANGO session manager (more secure than standard MBONE)
No need for separate on-demand and broadcast video servers
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Foil 59 Master video client integrated with the collaborative environment.

From Futures and Features of Webwisdom Electronic Education and Training DoD Modernization Users Group Meeting San Diego -- 24 June 97. *
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Session control for slave clients is provided by TANGO.
From Video-on-Demand in NPAC Overview May 1997
HTML version of Scripted Foils prepared 27 June 97

Foil 60 What is WebWisdom.org/com

From Futures and Features of Webwisdom Electronic Education and Training DoD Modernization Users Group Meeting San Diego -- 24 June 97. *
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WebWisdom.org domain will be an electronic virtual University starting with current NPAC curricula but not restricted to this
  • It will offer internationally continuing education certificates and K-12 education (including Java courses) outside the University but with substantial material at equivalent level
WebWisdom.com is a spin-off from NPAC to develop production versions of our collaboration, video-on-demand, education and GIS technology
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