Computing and Education Portals
 The success of Enterprise Information and Community Portals have inspired
great interest in portals in other areas. Java and XML are important parts of
portal technology. Building  specialized portals such as those for computing
and education, requires identifying special requirements and seeing how they 
fit into the more general academic and commerecial infrastructure which is 
just emerging. We describe standards activities such as the Grid Forum
http://www.gridforum.org and the less well established http://www.computingportals.org
Computational Science portals promise much more productive programming environments
and we give several examples including mesh generation and Earth Science.
We describe collaborative portals based on federated event services and the
linkage of event based learning and collaboration.