aim lab group / SCALE
University of Illinois

• "Web-Com" Capability
  • E-mail to html
  • Receive e-mail within Mosaic
  • Mosaic launch of Eudora, Pacer Forum, First Class
  • Collaborative, real-time web chat spaces with access to tools & links (NCSA "Collage" as model?)

• Customization of Mosaic menu bar for dedicated educational use

• Disk-based user preferences and hotlist files for use at public computer sites

• Enhanced hotlist support (including multiple hotlists and protected hotlists)

• PDA-based browser / Special html pages for wireless PDA Browser access

• Programmable "WWW agents" for personal use

• Further emulation of Hypercard / Toolbook / Director functionalities

GOAL #2 - Visualization of ALN / WWW

• "UIUCnet Fly Through" (inc. QT & MPEG versions)

• 3-D "Landscape Map" hotlists

• Navigational graphics showing dynamic positioning in Web space

Goal #3 - Advanced Instructional Features - The WWW Lecturer

• Utilize "Broadcast Mosaic" for experiment instructor use

Goal #4 - Grainger NSF Digital Library Initiative: Campus-wide Lessons

• Code HTML documents for easy searchability via protoype tags

• Run beta version of new NCSA http server ("Repository")

Goal #5 - WWW-based access to AI engines - Mosaic as HAL

• "Cyberspace Companion" - AI-based networking help system

Goal #6 - VRML & Hyper-G capabilties: Virtual Mosaic

• 3-D inline animations with link overlays (inc. alpha channel support and user progammable animation control)

• 3-D WWW moo environment with access to tools and links

Created by: Aaron Buckley of the The AIM Lab
Maintained by: George Stephen
Mail Comments and Suggestions to: jschmitz@uiuc.edu