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