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Foil 5 What's the Point III

From Distributed Objects and Portals for Earthquake Science GEM Meeting NPAC -- June 24-25 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Java Grande at http://www.javagrande.org is a community activity to encourage use of Java in "real computing" and the necessary changes in Java infrastructure
2 Distance Education and Object web curricula may be found at http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/admijune99/
3 Tango Interactive at http://www.npac.syr.edu/tango supports "synchronous" sharing of objects designed otherwise for asynchronous use
  • digital Audio -video conferencing, chat rooms, whiteboards, shared multimedia strems
  • web pages including forms and pointers
  • emacs, telnet, visualization have not been used in production
4 SV2 (Scientific Visualization -- the 2nd effort) is a Java3D visualization system supported by Tango 2
5 There are two versions of Tango: Tango 1.4 (production and supporting Netscape on UNIX and Windows) and Tango 2 (in alpha testing)
6 Internet Explorer will be supported on Tango 2 (September 1 99?)
7 Macintosh may be supported on Tango 2

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