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Foil 21 Distance Education and Science Collaboratory

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

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