Funders and Sponsors of the CoVis Project

Sponsors

• National Science Foundation program in Networking Infrastructures for Education
• Illinois State Board of Education/Eisenhower Program

Research Partners

• The Exploratorium (science museum)
• Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Bellcore

Industry Partners

• Aldus Software
• Ameritech
• Apple Computer
• Bellcore
• Farallon Computing
• ScienceKit/Boreal Labs
• Sony
• Spyglass, Inc.
• Sun Microsystems

Research Emphases

• Remote Collaboration
  • Student-to-student
  • Student-to-mentor
• Scientific Visualization for learning
• Networking Infrastructures
• Desktop audio/video teleconferencing
• Play/Record Video Servers
• Documenting concepts and skills acquired through Project-Enhanced Science Learning, and how teaching-learning processes are transformed

Software Systems

• Collaboratory Notebook
  • Multimedia shared database
  • Collaborative inquiry environment
  • Structured support for group and individual projects
• Internetworking Tools
  • Audio/Video teleconferencing
  • Electronic Mail
  • Usenet News Groups
  • Internet file-transfer
  • Gopher/World Wide Web
  • Screen Sharing
• Scientific Visualization Tools
  • Climate Visualizer
  • Weather Visualizer
  • Greenhouse Effect Visualizer