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Foil 2 '95 Collaboratory Experiments in Alpha Java

From Exploration of Available Collaboratory Technologies for RL CIV Rome Lab Quarterly Review for CIV -- June 28 96. by Wojtek Furmanski *
Developer: Vishal Mehra, NPAC GRA
Started in Fall'95 using alpha Java environment
Included collaboratory Java server and a set of HotJava browsers and clients
Supported functionalities:
  • Text Chat
  • Simple Games (tic-tac-toe)
  • Simple shared interactive 3D space navigation
Presented at Supercomputing'95 during NPAC Web Tutorial
Not continued afterwards due to: major differences between alpha and beta Java, Vishal leaving for IBM Watson
Project continued by Vishal at IBM -- to become part of collaboratory extension of IBM Web server products
Planned continuation at NPAC related to Vishal's PhD:
  • starts from summer project '96
  • continues as PhD topic on "Scalable Televirtuality Servers"

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