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Foil 21 Future Components of WebWindows

From NASA/MADIC NII Requirements for ASOP Langley Review NASA/MADIC Langley Review on NII Requirements for ASOP -- July 26-27 1995 NASA Langley Virginia. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

Project Management and Decision Support
  • Calendar, calculator etc.
Personal Digital Assistant -- Merging of Web and Telescript(Magic Cap)
Collaboration -- multiple video streams of participants, whiteboards, forums, MOO etc.
  • Distributed Software development
Computation -- harness the world wide web as a distributed computer -- WebWork project at NPAC, Boston University, Cooperating Systems Corp.
  • Will apply to find prime factors of 512 binary bit integer and so break security of Bank of England.
  • This will take 10,000 Pentiums for 300 hours each or equivalent.
  • Computation can make use of Web clients as well as servers. Servers "publish" their problems. Clients negotiate part of problem -- take away solve and return. Can use new Java technology
  • VRML important technology (open WWW 3D data structures)


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