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Foil 77 Distance Education and Science Collaboratory

From General Collection of Foils for CRPC Annual Meeting CRPC Annual Meeting -- 14-17 May 1996 Argonne. by Geoffrey C. Fox
A group of Web based education projects at NPAC, including:
  • Virtual University -- scalable CPS certificate to be offered over the Internet
  • WebWisdom -- experiments with Web based electronic presentation technologies (includes instrumented HotJava and Netscape2 + JavaScript prototypes)
  • Living Schoolbook -- broadband multimedia content for K-12 distance education over NYNET
  • NPAC WebSpace -- Web based plug-in for schools and small business into the advanced science laboratory LabSpace developed by ANL
Associated Web technologies include Java, HotJava, JavaScript, VRML, Web/Oracle, and a set of prototype collaboratory spaces such as:
  • AskNPAC Chat -- Oracle Server and client pull for realtime e-mail -- apply to chemists for NHSE (Software Exchange)
  • Java Chat --- Java collaboratory server and applet chat client
  • CareWebCast --- remotely guided collaboratory database navigator

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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