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Given by Marek Podgorny at WebWisdom.com on September 14 1998. Foils prepared September 20 1998
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This is a short summary of WebWisdom.com Corporate Status
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1 WebWisdom.com
2 WebWisdom.com
3 NPAC
4 Technology
5 Technology integration
6 TANGO Interactive
7 Application examples
8 WebWisdom NT
9 WebWisdom Interactive
10 WebWisdom Intelligent Eduserver
11 Multimedia technology
12 Lecture Publisher

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Foil 1 WebWisdom.com

From Overview of WebWisdom.com Products and Company WebWisdom.com -- September 14 1998. *
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A spin-off from Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University
Owned and managed by three officers of NPAC,
  • NPAC director, Geoffrey C. Fox,
  • NPAC R&D director, Marek Podgorny
  • NPAC CIO, Roman Markowski
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Owns exclusive license to commercialize all technologies created in NPAC
Has full access to NPAC intellectual and material resources via the Infomall technology transfer program
Enjoys support from Syracuse University which promotes commercialization of the research prototypes
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Foil 3 NPAC

From Overview of WebWisdom.com Products and Company WebWisdom.com -- September 14 1998. *
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Yearly budget of ~$3.5M
Funded by multiple DoD, DoE, and NSF agencies via research and software development contracts
Supported by NYS via InfoMall technology transfer and business incubation program
Nationally leading academic Internet research center
WebWisdom team: 14 people
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TANGO Interactive: Internet collaboration technology: runtime and development framework
WebWisdomNT: Multimedia asynchronous courseware management, storage, and delivery system
WebWisdom Interactive: synchronous, interactive courseware delivery system
WebWisdom Intelligent Server: XML-aware HTTP server extension
Lecture Recorder and Publisher - automated class publishing tool
Web Multimedia Technology: videoconferencing, video on demand, Java audio/video, synchronous RealMedia
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All technologies listed on the previous slide are compatible and integrated
  • TANGO Interactive supports all multimedia technologies
  • Synchronous and asynchronous modes of WebWisdom use the same database repository
  • XML server is used in implementation of WebWisdom database access
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Foil 6 TANGO Interactive

From Overview of WebWisdom.com Products and Company WebWisdom.com -- September 14 1998. *
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Collaboratory runtime and development framework
  • Fused with the Web, Java runtime
  • Multiuser, multisession, multimedia, muiltiplatform, light-weight collaboratory runtime
  • entirely open and extensible, serves as integration platform, supports applications written in arbitrary programming language
  • supports dozens of collaborative modules
  • applications fields: science, medicine, teaching and training, command&control, enginering
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Foil 7 Application examples

From Overview of WebWisdom.com Products and Company WebWisdom.com -- September 14 1998. *
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Chat rooms (1-3D), whiteboards, shared browser, shared editors and code debuggers
Videoconferencing and shared media players
Collaborative 3D virtual environment with complete GIS support including terrain rendering
Synchronous curricula delivery system
Synchronous scientific simulations
Arbitrary application sharing via shared display technology
Collaborative maaping toolkit with GPS support
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Foil 8 WebWisdom NT

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Complete courseware management, storage, and web delivery system
  • Implements relational DB backend for popular authoring packages
  • Integrated, in-database object editing
  • Supports media objects (audio/video)
  • Dynamic play list and presentation creation
  • Standard-compliant metadata
  • Multi-level security
  • Web access via XML HTTP server extension
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Foil 9 WebWisdom Interactive

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Synchronous courseware delivery system
  • TANGO Interactive runtime for communication
  • WebWisdom NT courseware database
  • XML implementation of the presentation layer
  • Multiple educational tools, including all multimedia players and embedded interactive simulation objects
  • Interactive whiteboard for dynamic presentation and for both teacher and student annotations
  • Integrated multiuser, multiplatform audio/video support
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Foil 10 WebWisdom Intelligent Eduserver

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Java extension to standard HTTP server
  • Supports XML templates
  • Predefined tag set for standard-compliant educational data elements enables rapid development of customized presentation layers
  • User-definable, extensible tag set for new application domains
  • Transparent database access
  • Comparable to ColdFusion but not proprietary
  • Follows cutting-edge Web technology development trends
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Foil 11 Multimedia technology

From Overview of WebWisdom.com Products and Company WebWisdom.com -- September 14 1998. *
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High-end, high performance collaborative Open Inventor web browser
  • complete GIS and database support
Java audio and video playback technology
  • supports standard codecs, exceeds Java Media Framework performance and robustness
Educational video-on-demand technology
  • indexed digital video library
Integration of RealMedia technology into all TANGO and WebWisdom
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From Overview of WebWisdom.com Products and Company WebWisdom.com -- September 14 1998. *
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Automated audio/video/contents capture, indexing, and publishing system
  • supports high-quality MPEG master copy
  • Internet-quality audio and video in few formats, including standard H.263 and popular RealMedia
  • automated capture, conversion, and publishing tools
  • includes Java playback modules
  • contents convertible to WebWisdom format
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