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Basic foilset Distance Learning panel at DoD Users Group: Summary of NPAC Work

Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at DoD HPC Modernization Users Group Meeting Monterey California on June 8 99. Foils prepared June 11 99
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Tango is a fully Web integrated
system that can share general client side applications, web pages and output from databases, computers (e.g. visualization and other servers
What it is
What we have done
Features of Current and Future Tango
How can we deploy and support system

Table of Contents for full HTML of Distance Learning panel at DoD Users Group: Summary of NPAC Work

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1 DoD Modernization PET Distance Learning Panel
2 Abstract of Tango-Interactive Summary
3 Collaboration and Training with Tango-Interactive
4 Architecture of Tango Distance Education
5 Example of Distance Learning with Tango
6 TangoInteractive Features and Strategy
7 Near Term Activities for Tango-Interactive
8 TangoInteractive System Futures

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Foil 1 DoD Modernization PET Distance Learning Panel

From Distance Learning panel at DoD Users Group: Summary of NPAC Work DoD HPC Modernization Users Group Meeting Monterey California -- June 8 99. *
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A mix of outside perspective and PET activities
  • PET work must participate in and take advantage of best practice world wide
  • Last year we had talks from Microsoft and DoD ADL Initiative
Geoffrey Fox, NPAC at Syracuse University -- TangoInteractive for PET Distance Education and Training
Professor Willie Brown, Jackson State University, Asst. VP for Information Technology -- Experiences and Potential for distance Learning
Dr. Doug Gordin SRI International -- Projections for Collaborative Tools from the NSF Education Community
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Foil 2 Abstract of Tango-Interactive Summary

From Distance Learning panel at DoD Users Group: Summary of NPAC Work DoD HPC Modernization Users Group Meeting Monterey California -- June 8 99. *
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Tango is a fully Web integrated
system that can share general client side applications, web pages and output from databases, computers (e.g. visualization and other servers
What it is
What we have done
Features of Current and Future Tango
How can we deploy and support system
HTML version of Basic Foils prepared June 11 99

Foil 3 Collaboration and Training with Tango-Interactive

From Distance Learning panel at DoD Users Group: Summary of NPAC Work DoD HPC Modernization Users Group Meeting Monterey California -- June 8 99. *
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TangoInteractive enables computers (and their users) to be linked over the Internet with
  • Basic Tools: Audio Video Conferencing, Chat Rooms, White Boards
  • Shared Web Pages, Shared Java Applets, GIS, Visualization
  • and states of these applications synchronized in real time
Tango supports Real time Sharing of "Distributed Objects"
Uses DREN to deliver training and education
Distance Education and Training Activities
  • PET training with OSC showing the way
  • Teaching computational science and Internet technologies at Jackson State where we have completed 4th semester of classes given twice a week from Syracuse to Jackson State
  • Just finished Middle and High School Java Academy with sites in Syracuse Boston Houston and Mississippi
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Foil 4 Architecture of Tango Distance Education

From Distance Learning panel at DoD Users Group: Summary of NPAC Work DoD HPC Modernization Users Group Meeting Monterey California -- June 8 99. *
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Architecture of Tango Distance Education
NPAC Web Server
JSU Web (Proxy or Mirror)Server
Java Tango Server
.......
Share URL's
Audio Video
Conferencing Chat Rooms
White Boards etc.
Address at JSU of Curriculum Page
Teacher's View of Curriculum Page
Student's View of Curriculum Page
Participants at JSU
Teacher/Lecturer at NPAC
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Java Control Clients
All Curricula placed on the Web
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Foil 5 Example of Distance Learning with Tango

From Distance Learning panel at DoD Users Group: Summary of NPAC Work DoD HPC Modernization Users Group Meeting Monterey California -- June 8 99. *
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Shared Web Page
"Raise Hands"
Educational Simulations
Chat Rooms
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Foil 6 TangoInteractive Features and Strategy

From Distance Learning panel at DoD Users Group: Summary of NPAC Work DoD HPC Modernization Users Group Meeting Monterey California -- June 8 99. *
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Links Interactive (synchronous) and self-paced (asynchronous) collaborative models
  • While lecturing, teacher selects curriculum on the web
  • After class, students accesses this and other web resources in their own time
Runs on Windows 95,98,NT UNIX (Irix, Solaris, Linux)
Supports multi-language shared server and client applications in Java, Javabeans, C++ and JavaScript (W3C DOM)
Develop applications to support particular collaborative activities
  • Education and Training: identify and support particular course development models
  • Management: Distance Briefings
  • Collaborative Computing: Custom link to particular Computing Resources (Visualization, Telnet etc.)
  • Command and Control: Original Tango funding from Rome/Darpa
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Foil 7 Near Term Activities for Tango-Interactive

From Distance Learning panel at DoD Users Group: Summary of NPAC Work DoD HPC Modernization Users Group Meeting Monterey California -- June 8 99. *
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Tango can be downloaded freely from http://www.npac.syr.edu/tango
  • 50 downloads a week; 20% of these servers
Upgrade core technology in areas such as browser independence, security, multiple community support, archiving
Enable broader deployment of Tango-Interactive
  • Improve User Support and documentation .....
So what is the problem?
  • We are "just" a University research group supporting software built on top of wonderful web technology (e.g. browsers) which have bugs and change rapidly
  • e.g. it appears that Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 will win browser war
  • Many PC's/workstations have mis-installed or mediocre multimedia subsystems
Focus Tango? e.g.Tango2 will only support fully Internet Explorer?
Package Tango with hardware (multimedia PC) as complete collaborative stations?
  • Recommended hardware lists .......
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Foil 8 TangoInteractive System Futures

From Distance Learning panel at DoD Users Group: Summary of NPAC Work DoD HPC Modernization Users Group Meeting Monterey California -- June 8 99. *
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New Application Areas
  • Need feedback from users on what is useful -- we have this in education and training but not say in collaborative computing
Working on universal access with Wisconsin Trace Center -- shared event model allows customized interfaces with given curriculum rendered simultaneously in different ways on different clients
  • MicroTango client on your palm pilot
  • sonification of images on one client
  • low resolution on another
  • CAVE on a third
Developing research version built around XML and Jini with shared components in web pages supporting general model from
  • "clumsy current Tango model" to
  • "collaborative editing" of web documents sharing Web Consortium document fragments
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