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» Chen Li » Sharad Mehrotra » Richard Taylor The World Wide Web has become the "killer" application for the Internet infrastructure that has been around for over 30 years.
The rapid adoption and application of the Web, and the search at a maddening pace for new ways to exploit the Internet, are driving an equally rapid development of the software and hardware technology infrastructure.
The software technology infrastructure includes:
» Internet/Web programming languages and tools
» Web application servers
» Electronic and communications protocols
» Multimedia data compression and routing techniques
» E-commerce and e-medicine software
» Customized information delivery
» Distributed transactions and distance learning
» Web log analysis of visitor access patternsThe hardware technology includes mobile devices, thin clients or Internet appliances, multimedia transmission devices, switches and routers.
Professor of informatics Crista Lopes (left) and professor of chemical engineering Stanley Grant are developing a web-based watershed information and management tool called the California Sustainable Wetland Information Manager, CalSWIM. 