ET Accomplishments
Technology: We completed the design of a new XML-based message service
that spans several uses -- we see this as a candidate for a Grid Event
and Message Service. It supports functionality of JMS (Java Message
Service), shared event collaboration and events needed in computing
portals. We have built a prototype collaboration system using this. This is
designed to support either desktop or handheld clients and we have
developed use of PDA's to control visualization on large screens. One
innovative feature of our approach is support of shared SVG (Scalable
Vector Graphics). We have continued to enhance our computing portal
Gateway to enable a wizard that will "wrap" general applications.

Outreach: The collaboration technology is core to work with Indian Nation
on building collaborative environments. We attended two multi-day
meetings organized by the American Indian Higher Education Consortium
AIHEC or rather their High technology Committee led by Tom Davis and Jack
Briggs. We developed the concept of a "Digital Indigenous Homeland"
designed to allow members of tribes participate in the modern economy
from their homelands. We are preparing follow-on proposals
We are working with structural mechanics group at NCSA with Gateway.
We are working with the Earthquake forecasting community (GEM
for General Earthquake Model and the NSF STC Center SCEC) on many
computing and collaboration technologies.

Publications:
Fox, G.C., Ken Hurst, Andrea Donnellan, and Jay Parker, 
"Introducing a New Paradigm for Computational Earth Science - 
A web-object-based approach to Earthquake Simulations",
A chapter in AGU monograph on "GeoComplexity and the Physics of Earthquakes" 
edited by John Rundle, Donald Turcotte and William Klein 
and published by AGU in 2000, pp 219-245. 

Several Presentations and Internal Memos can be found at:
http://aspen.csit.fsu.edu/collabtools/