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Foil 7 Examples of the Use of Java in Education

From Web Technology and Applications for Education CRPC Annual Meeting -- May 14-17 1996. by Geoffrey Fox


I expect Java to be the the dominant implementation language for everything on the Web from Servers, Clients, MOO's, filters, Animations, Simulations etc.
Can build neat clickable images including Visible Human (biology education!) and our 2D "Interactive Journey" clickable GIS for New York State
This has several obvious near term applications including some examples of education in HPCC arena:
  • Downloading software for demonstrations or general client side computing
  • Use of Java to animate the display of performance visualization data
  • Use of Java to produce visualizations of data movement in algorithms such as matrix and particle dynamics -- Brown University initially demonstrated in sorting
The above examples are quite interesting reasons for introduction of electronic journals as you should be able to explain complex ideas better this way
Note Web was initially book/libraries done digitally.
Now we are the second wave of opportunities exploiting the specific advantages of distributed computing backbone



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