World Wide Web Issues

FSL Manager's retreat, 25-Nov-96

Hardware and Software Trends:

CPU Developments over the past several years show a very good fit to an exponential model.
So, one can make a pretty confident forecast of what a little money will buy in December, 1999
Software is changing rapidly too. Software is rapidly becoming seamlessly accessible, and automatically upgradable: Software anecdotes
Corby Bacco's Graphical Forecast Viewer is a good example of software that is downloaded as it is needed. Users always use the latest available software, without necessarily even knowing it.

Scientific Publication Trends

The web is rapidly becoming the primary vehicle for distribution of scientific and technical knowledge, both formal and informal:

NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Lab uses the web to display their Outstanding Publications

Rapidly-changing gray literature is made available by the American Physical Society, who allow anybody to post electronic documents on their E-print Server.

Prepared by Bill Moninger ( moninger@fsl.noaa.gov, 303-497-6435)

Last modified: Sat Nov 23 15:35:50 1996