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ITT Visual Information Solutions Story on the IDL License Donation
Posted June 23rd, 2007 by Bruce CaronThe New Media Research Institute is proud to collaborate with ITT Visual Information Solutions to build the tools that educators nationwide can use to develop data literacy in the United States. With key funding by NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and NASA Earth System Science, NMRI uses it's IDL-based authoring tools to develop software for education in a wide variety of settings outside the usual research laboratory setting where IDL is found.
You can read about this effort on the ITT Visual Information Solutions website:
IDL Donations Help Foster Early Interest in Scientific Data Exploration
Central Africa Forest Integrity Viewer Help Page
Currently, the CAFI Instruction and Help/FAQ page is located here: CAFI HELP PAGE
This page will be the permanent URL link to the CAFI package. This means that if the Help page is moved, we can change that link here, and the user will still find it.
DIAL NASA abstract
Posted June 5th, 2007 by Bruce Caron in
Award No.: ACCESS-05-0003, Primary Program Area: Tech Infusion, Secondary Program Area: , PI: Caron, Bruce, Org: New Media Studio
Title: Data and Information Application Layer (DIAL): Enabling Rapid NASA Data-Rich User Software Application Development
DIAL OSX Director IDL Plugin (Xtra) under test
Posted May 10th, 2007 by Bruce CaronAfter six months of coding and refactoring, the OSX version of the IDL plugin to Director is undergoing testing at the Institute. The Plugin currently has Carbon and Mach 0 versions (Director is a Carbon application, and IDL is Mach 0). The Institute (like all Director users) is waiting for Adobe to announce the upgrade to Director, which should make this a Mach 0 application too. Until that time, the OS X plugin will remain in beta mode.
DIAL Presentation at Goddard Space Flight Center
Posted April 26th, 2007 by Bruce CaronOn April 11, 2007, Bruce Caron gave a presentation on the DIAL technology at the Education and Outreach Colloquium of the Earth Sciences Division at GSFC. Simultaneously webcast, the presentation walked the audience through the advantages of using DIAL for data-rich application development.
The talk presentation is now on the GSFC website:
Education and Outreach Colloquium, Bruce Caron
You can link directly to the presentation (as a PDF file) here:
DIAL Basecamp Site
Posted April 24th, 2007 by Bruce CaronFor our DIAL Developer partners, we have code sharing and project building capabilities at our DIALNASA Basecamp site. You can send a message to Bruce (bruce AT nmri.org) or Marty (marty AT nmri.org) to get set up on this site!
Check out the Basecamp:
DIAL NASA BASECAMP
GUI central
Posted April 24th, 2007 by Bruce CaronStarting with the idea that the best GUI is one that is invisible, intuitive, and elegant, DIAL works to assemble code and GUI objects (behaviors and graphics) that can be used by all DIAL developers to create new applications. The idea is that the overlap between the GUIs of any two applications will be great enough (and the acceptance of common GUI guidelines broad enough) so that any user that has experienced one DIAL application can pick up another and use it without any additional interface learning curve.
The Future of Adobe Director
Posted April 24th, 2007 by Bruce CaronWill Adobe kill Director, or bring it to a new level of capability?
