NCSA announces the alpha release of Science for the Millennium, a video-intensive, prototype Web exposition highlighting NCSA's contributions to advancing scientific knowledge via HPCC. To create the Web exhibits, substantial amounts of videotape footage and interviews from NCSA video programming were digitized and seamlessly embedded into a rich web of scientific content. Designed for diverse audiences with varying technical backgrounds, the exposition provides for interactive, in-depth exploration of a wealth of scientific information by adopting the metaphor of a world science fair. Here's a taste.
The "Pavilion of Science and Industry" houses three exhibits on astronomy and astrophysics, focusing on cosmology, relativity, and radio astronomy. A click of the mouse will take you to the "Pavilion of Computation." If you are interested in distributed computing, this is the place for you. Or check out the listings in the "Science Theater." An exhibit on virtual environments and scientific movies galore awaits your attention.
Also featured is an "Information Center" where you can pick up maps of the main exhibits. Linked to each and every page, these maps will help you navigate and avoid getting lost in cyberspace! Featured also are technical advisory pages, reference materials, feedback forms, a search engine, and download statistics.
The exposition represents a collective effort by numerous people within and beyond NCSA. All those who have contributed time, talent, images, and videos are acknowledged within the exposition's Web pages.
Aside from installing a few documents and links that are still "under construction," future development of the exposition may include one or more of the following: enhancing interactivity via new Web capabilities (for example, HotJava, VRML, real-time video, and video stream hyper- linking); extending the content coverage to other areas (for example, life sciences, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, engineering, and manufacturing and design); and integration of the exhibits with science curricula into high schools and universities.
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