Subject: Learning Technologiea, Graduate Education and Roadmap Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:12:23 -0400 Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox Resent-To: p_gcf@boss.npac.syr.edu Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:51:50 -0400 From: Geoffrey Fox To: Scott Lathrop CC: roscoe@bu.edu So I see at the highest level, excellent synergy between submitted plans and roadmap as most work of both EOT (and my group in particular) is focussed on web and distributed object technologies This synergy was of course not emphasized in my draft and I can add it. In more detail 1) Internetics in Graduate case is precisely aimed at technologies emphasized in roadmap 2) We can and I think should aim at "portals" into education and this should be a feature of Graduate UG K-12. 3) Learning Technologies can help coordinate and integrate education portals 4) Current Gannon draft roadmap does not directly address EOT needs which are somewhere between Science Portal (in current roadmap) and some reworked "Intranet" ( not in current roadmap) which can and I gather will use Java+XML We need to either put development of EOT portal architecture as a "project" which we start this year or do it before or at May 12-13 meeting. I prefer making this a project for rest of year 5) We should also integrate Riverweb and similar projects into "portal" framework 6) In general our technologies and approach are quite compatible with "vision of roadmap" as we do use distributed objects web Java XML etc. We could increase this as part of EOT portal definition activity. 7) I copied you two on my email to Access Grid folks. I see current AG as being focussed at high end visualization -- important but not only issue in EOT AG I hope we can broaden AG roadmap to include a broader range of requirements Roscoe sent some comments in response to my email which I thought were just right and should help Thanks! Geoffrey Fox gcf@npac.syr.edu, http://www.npac.syr.edu Director of NPAC and Professor of Physics and Computer Science Phone 3154432163 (Npac central 3154431723) Fax 3154434741