Tech-X Corporation Receives Small Business Innovation Research Award to Develop a Collaborative Tool for Working On the Web.BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 1999-- Tech-X Corporation, developer of high-performance software solutions for science, engineering and education, has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR SBIR Small Business Innovation Research (program/grant) SBIR Space Based Infra-Red SBIR Speaker-Boundary Interference SBIR Site Backsurface-referenced Ideal Plane/Range (silicon wafers) ) award from the U.S. Department of Energy. The project, "CoWorker co·work·er or co-work·er n. One who works with another; a fellow worker. : an Application Server for Collaborative Work," will develop an object-oriented client-server framework for distributed collaborative work via the web. The C++ server will allow for joint invocation of arbitrary applications, while multiple instances of the Java client will allow collaborators to visualize the results, exchange and analyze images, and also create and jointly edit documents. CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global middleware will be used for communication between the server and the multiple clients. The resulting framework will be appropriate for use over low-band-width phone lines, making it more broadly applicable than many existing collaboration tools. "Many users will be able to simultaneously interact with applications located on a single powerful workstation, requiring nothing more than a standard web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. ," says principal investigator Svetlana Shasharina. "CoWorker can be used for distance learning, scientific research, online marketing, and telemedicine." About Tech-X Corporation Tech-X Corporation is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. Formed in 1994 to develop modern software for science, engineering and education, Tech-X has government contracts in the areas of distributed computing for technical collaborations, object-oriented applications for designing radar tubes and particle accelerators, development of cross-platform software components, and development of software tools for interactive, web-based physics education. Tech-X Corporation can be found on the web at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. http://www.techxhome.com. |
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