Nutrition Analysis Tool. NAT was the first fully functional nutrient analysis program on the web (as far as I know) using the entire USDA database (Handbook #8). NAT is capable of analyzing any food or combination of foods and giving you information on the amount of 21 common nutrients. And it is totally free!
Java programming was Chris Hewes' primary responsibility. There are a number of examples on the above page. Most of his recent projects are not up as they are much larger in scope than those listed and most are still in development.
One of the key areas of the Hospitality Management program is its catering operation. A new course had been developed to instruct the students in catering management skills. To aid in that goal, Hewes created a set of Catering Event Forms. These forms gather all essential information about a particular catering such as Menu or Billing information into one convenient database. There are also "calculator" like forms that allow students to calculate an accurate price to be charged for each catering.
The hospitality management students run a cafeteria serving approximately 120-150 people per day. From the link above, go to our online menus and choose a day for which you would like to analyze your lunch. It's a relatively simple form which returns a table telling you about the various amounts of eleven nutrients in our food.
This is a list of some 1.0 VRML Interfaces which are attempts at visualizing the proverbial "hotlist" in a new and hopefully more intuitive way. The overall goal is to develop a new way of seeing data and information so as not to merely mimic the 2D page of newspapers and magazines (which is the web's primary mode of information visualization currently.)
Last modified: 04/10/98 Edited and Archived 9.10.00 JGS AIM Lab