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Foil 10 Web Tech Development: Commerce vs Academia

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


We correctly predicted the "revolution" and the current "expansion phase" in our WebWindows presentation at the CRPC annual meeting 1 year ago in Houston.
What was a prophecy 1 year ago, becomes everyone's idea today. What is still non-trivial is the proper strategy for academic computer science, given the unprecedented speed of the Web expansion and rapidly melting boundaries between Windows and UNIX.
We view the area of distributed Web based computing for PSE as a promising niche, given that industry will continue their focus on client-server aspects of the Web where the near term profit can be made.
We expect Web based PSE to evolve starting from the top-down Web interfaces to previous generation legacy systems (current state-of-the-art) and moving towards genuine bottom-up Web infrastructure (WebWindows).



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