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Overview of Goals and Approaches

• The vision
  • Many users
  • Shared world
  • Geographically separated
  • Communicate / interact

• Distributed programming

• Collaborative tools

• Distributed hypermedia environments

• Distributed virtual environments
  • Scientific
  • Medical
  • Art
  • Entertainment
  • Commercial

• Tasks
  • Content
  • Graphics
  • Database
  • Networks
  • Heterogeneous computing
  • Distributed computing

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