Eleanor and Walter,

As you know, Geoffrey Fox is moving to Florida State University.  Some
members of NPAC, mostly graduate students, will move to FSU as well.
Geoffrey's research program at FSU will focus on web-based portals for
scientific computing and education (the evolution of the current
"Gateway" project) and on distance education (Geoffrey will be Chief
Scientist for the University's large distance education deployment
project, as well as continuing and expanding research in this area in
his own group).  Others in NPAC have chosen other paths.  The "Tango
Group" will stay in Syracuse and try to build the NPAC spoin-off
company WebWisdom.com, which has commercial rights to Tango, LecCorder
and related technologies.  At this point in time, it also looks like
Wojtek Furmanski will stay at Syracuse and continue his research
program.

As mentioned above, we expect activity at FSU in distance education to
be quite vigorous and interesting, taking an approach which
generalizes the Syracuse work and adds new developments such as those
in commercial education/training systems and new Internet
technologies.  We will continue to work with Jackson State and other
(HBCU) PET partners but so far the interest originally expressed by
NAVO's partner institutions in our distance education work has not
extended to actual participation. Given this situation we have decided
not to submit a Year 5 proposal in this area at the present time.  Of
course if you are particularly interested in continuing to support
work in distance education/training, we would be happy to discuss it
with you and develop a proposal.  Also, if you are interested in
continued technical support for Tango Interactive at NAVO, I will ask
WebWisdom.com to supply a quote for such services.

The other work we're doing for you at the moment is in the area of
metacomputing/distributed simulation, which is lead by Wojtek
Furmanski.  Though his plans are not yet firm, he has expressed an
interest in staying at Syracuse and continuing his work with NAVO.
Because of the delays in the progress of the current project, it is
difficult to make a detailed follow-on proposal at this time, but I
enclose our best attempt.  I hope you will consider it open for
discussion and revision as the current project proceeds, and as
Wojtek's plans for the future firm up.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
David