Basic HTML version of Foils prepared Nov 5 1996

Foil 10 Technologies for Education- I

From Master Set of Foils for Overview of Education component of Cornell PACI Site Review Maryland -- Nov 5-6,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox
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

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