From the I-WAY to the National Technology Grid

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 50-60

  Stevens, Rick ^a   Woodward, Paul ^b   DeFanti, Tom ^c   Catlett, Charlie ^d  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SECURITY OF DATA; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY MACHINES; JAVA PROGRAMMING; METACOMPUTER;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 0031269037     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/265684.265692     Document Type: Article

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