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Foil 4 New Directions for Tango

From Overview of Tango Alliance 98 NCSA Illinois -- April 27-29 98. by Geoffrey Fox


1 Several more courses and tutorials including K-12
2 Most recent effort devoted to making system more robust so can be deployed generally
3 Will be used in Crisis Management demonstration in May
4 Education applications include "classic guided tour" and more interestingly shared simulations
  • mechanics of springs, planets
5 Major new enhancements in next 4 months
  • "Active" Presentations by displaying PowerPoint (etc.) on full featured shared Java whiteboard
  • Linkage to Lotus Notes to join synchronous and asynchronous collaboration
  • Linkage to JDBC database backend for logging of sessions and more powerful curriculum management tools
  • More sophisticated multi-room customizable Tango (2.0) version
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