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Foil 12 Web Technologies at NPAC: Terms and Concepts

From Problem Solving Environments from Simulation, Medicine and Defense using the Web CRPC Annual Meeting -- May 14-17 1996. by Geoffrey Fox, Wojtek Furmanski


1 WebTools -- PDA-like Web based environment using CGI (to be improved)-extended personal Web servers to handle file management, e-mail etc.
2 WebWisdom -- JavaScript prototype for managing information hierarchies in the electronic presentation space for Virtual University
3 WebWork -- a mesh of WebTools-like servers, coordinated to perform a common (potentially world-wide) distributed computational task
4 WebVM -- an abstract VM implemented in terms of / on top of computationally extended evolving Web technologies
5 WebFlow -- a dataflow paradigm for visual programming on top of WebVM in terms of interactive browser tools (Java based visual flow editor)
6 WebHPL -- a high level object-oriented interpreted language on top of WebVM to support Web based HPCC
7 WebSpace -- pervasive collaboration support, based on Web/Oracle and Java collaboratory servers
8 WebWindows -- a Web(VM) based operating/windowing environment under collaborative development by the Web community
9 WebTop Systems -- an ensemble of toolkits and integration framework for WebWindows application development

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