Technologies for Education- I

Web technologies have potential for interactive rich environments which are clearly superior to existing video based conferencing and distance education
- will enable Collaboratories(distributed research) and the Virtual University
- see Institute for Collaborative Telecommunications at Cornell
- finally can realize promise of computer use in education!
Java Collaboration systems such as Habanero (NCSA), Shaking Hands(IBM) and Tango(NPAC) very important
- needs more experimentation with different approaches
CGI scripts and client side Javascript is straight forward today
Virtual Programming Laboratory -- MPI, HPF on the Web -- deployed in Syracuse course CPS615 and next Virtual Workshop