🚀 go-pugleaf

In addition to the CS department colloquium, Marc Brown will be giving a
small seminar at 2PM Thursday on the Visual Obliq system in room OT 8-6. 
The abstract follows.

Wayne

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    Building distributed applications by direct manipulation


    Marc H. Brown
    DEC Systems Research Center
    Palo Alto, CA

    mhb@src.dec.com


    Visual Obliq is a tool to make it (nearly) as easy to build a
    distributed, multi-user application as it is to build a single-user,
    non-distributed application using an environment such as Microsoft's
    Visual Basic. The heart of Visual Obliq is an interface builder
    for constructing GUIs by direct manipulation, with user-supplied
    callback-code written in Obliq.

    Our model of a distributed application is as follows. The program
    starts up at a "server" site and spreads to "client" sites via
    "Visual Obliq servers" running on those machines. Clients may
    join the session on their own, or by invitation. The unit of
    distribution is a "form", a top level window. A program may contain
    many forms, and several instances of each form may exist at various
    sites on the network. The programmer is provided transparent
    access to all forms within a session, thereby making it easy
    to write a distributed application.

    This is joint work with Krishna Bharat, Georgia Tech.
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Wayne Citrin
citrin@cs.colorado.edu
citrin@soglio.colorado.edu
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