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Foil 54 Collaboration using Tango-Interactive

From Integration of Web and Distributed Object Technologies in a New Generation of Grande Programming Environments PDPTA Las Vegas -- June 28 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Tango is a fully Web integrated
system that can share general client side applications, web pages and output from databases and other servers
As web-based naturally links Interactive (synchronous) and self-paced (asynchronous) collaborative models
Runs on Windows 95,98,NT UNIX (Irix, Solaris, Linux)
Supports multi-language shared server and client applications in Java, Javabeans, C++ and JavaScript (W3C DOM)
Supplement existing very general tools (audio-video conferencing, chats, whiteboard etc.) by specialized applications to support particular collaborative activities such as:
Distance Education and Training where we are teaching computational science at Jackson State and High School classes on Java
Collaborative Visualization and Computing
  • Tango collaboratively links visualization from CAVE to PC
  • NCSA Biology Workbench made collaborative using shared web forms -- example of shared databases and simulations
Shared Client Side Java applets for "Rapid Prototyping" Phase of Computation
Shared emacs and Telnet for collaborative programming



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