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Foil 41 Collaboration I

From Use of Java in Computational Science DoD Modernization Users Group Conference Monterey -- June 7 99. by Tom Haupt,Geoffrey C. Fox


1 This is often termed groupware support and Lotus Notes is best known corporate product
2 Collaboration implies sharing of electronic objects and is needed in asynchronous and synchronous modes
3 AOL Yahoo etc. have Internet games which illustrate one sophisticated form of collaboration
4 Chat rooms are perhaps most popular and are simplest synchronous tool. White boards next most popular
5 Asynchronous mode is
  • shared web pages and documents (these are be shared synchronously or asynchronously)
  • electronic mail, event calendars, bulletin boards
6 http://www.npac.syr.edu/tango/ is a collaboration system supporting synchronous sharing of events where events signify changes in objects

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