Collaboration using Tango-Interactive
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