What and Why is in the Course? Portals

• So we will start with Portals. These are essentially the name for the whole system where it is designed to address a particular application

• Portal to Syracuse University is by definition http://www.syr.edu

• Portal to NPAC is http://www.npac.syr.edu

• Portal to the world is http://www.yahoo.com/ or http://my.netscape.com/

• Portal to latest news is http://www.cnn.com

• Portal to computational chemistry is http://www.osc.edu/~kenf/theGateway/PSEactivities/CCM.html

• Portal to stock trading is http://quote.yahoo.com/

Previous slide

Next slide

Back to first slide

View graphic version