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Basic foilset Overview of WebWisdom.com Capabilities and Plans

Given by Geoffrey C. Fox, Roman Markowski, Marek Podgorny at Informational Resource on March 7 99. Foils prepared March 7 99
Outside Index Summary of Material

Overview of WebWisdom.com
NPAC and its relationship to WebWisdom.com
Technologies of WebWisdom.com
Business Opportunities

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1 WebWisdom.com
2 WebWisdom.com
3 NPAC
4 Technology
5 Technology Integration
6 Business Opportunities I
7 Business Opportunities II
8 TANGO Interactive
9 TANGO Interactive Application Examples
10 WebWisdomDB
11 WebWisdomNT
12 WebWisdom XML Template Server
13 Multimedia Technology
14 LecCorder: Lecture Publisher

Outside Index Summary of Material

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Foil 1 WebWisdom.com

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A spin-off from Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University
Owned and managed by three current officers of NPAC
  • NPAC director, Geoffrey C. Fox,
  • NPAC R&D director, Marek Podgorny
  • NPAC CIO, Roman Markowski
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Foil 2 WebWisdom.com

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Owns exclusive license to commercialize multimedia and collaborative 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

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Yearly budget of ~$3.5M
Funded by multiple DoD, DoE, and NSF agencies via research and software development contracts
  • Over 50% of this activity corresponds to technologies licensed by WebWisdom.com
Recognized as leader nationally in area of Internet and Distributed Object technologies
  • NPAC leads activities at 3 large DoD centers in information technology (NCSA - originator of Mosaic and Netscape is a member of NPAC-led team)
WebWisdom team: 14 people
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Foil 4 Technology

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TANGO Interactive : Internet collaboration technology:
  • runtime and development framework with application in education, virtual meetings, crisis management, telemedicine...
WebWisdomNT: Interactive courseware delivery system
  • based on TANGO Interactive and used continuously for 18 months; supports all aspects of web based training and education
WebWisdomDB: Database back-end
  • Multimedia asynchronous courseware management, storage, and delivery system
LecCorder: Lecture Recorder and Publisher
  • automated class publishing tool
Web Multimedia Technology:
  • videoconferencing, video on demand, Java audio/video, synchronous RealMedia
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Foil 5 Technology Integration

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All technologies listed on the previous slide are compatible and integrated
  • TANGO Interactive supports all multimedia technologies including BuenaVista audio/video conferencing
  • Synchronous and asynchronous modes of WebWisdomNT use the same database repository
  • Very modern XML server is used in implementation of WebWisdomDB database access
  • WebWisdomNT has best design for "universal access" to all students independent of disabilities
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Foil 6 Business Opportunities I

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Education K-12, Undergraduate, Graduate, Life long Learning
Corporate Training
Government (20% DoD budget for training)
Distributed Communities
New models of Internet Commerce integrating people (the equivalent of today's shop assistants) and web material ....
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Foil 7 Business Opportunities II

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Market estimate from a few billion dollars to 20 billion dollars
WebWisdom has far better product than Symposium from Centra ($20M venture capital, $40M valuation June `98)
Need funds to develop management and marketing
Products available for sale today
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Foil 8 TANGO Interactive

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Collaboratory runtime and development framework
  • Fused with the Web, Java runtime
  • Multi-user, multi-session, multimedia, multi-platform, 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, engineering
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Foil 9 TANGO Interactive Application Examples

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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 mapping toolkit with GPS support
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Foil 10 WebWisdomDB

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Complete courseware management, storage, and web delivery system
  • Implements relational DB backend for popular authoring packages (Oracle recommended)
  • 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 11 WebWisdomNT

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Courseware delivery and access system integrating synchronous, interactive and self paced modes
  • TANGO Interactive runtime for communication
  • WebWisdomDB 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
    • Being currently used to deliver courses to multiple sites by teachers inside and outside NPAC
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Foil 12 WebWisdom XML Template Server

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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 13 Multimedia Technology

From Overview of WebWisdom.com Capabilities and Plans Informational Resource -- March 7 99. *
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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 Interactive and WebWisdomNT
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Foil 14 LecCorder: Lecture Publisher

From Overview of WebWisdom.com Capabilities and Plans Informational Resource -- March 7 99. *
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Automated audio/video/contents capture, indexing, and publishing system
  • supports high-quality MPEG-1 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 WebWisdomNT format and storable in the database
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