New Media Research Institute

After 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.

On 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:

September 10, 2004

March 2004
For this project to create interactive Java-based software products, the Institute will be working on a new effort to automate the pedagogical evaluation of learning software through the development of "evaluation layers" that can be programmed by education experts to test the users on their knowledge before and after the use of the software. The Institute is working on a subcontract with the University of Wisconsin, and will be subcontracting educational content development in the area of marine ecology to UCSB's Marine Science Institute and PISCO project.

March 2004
The Studio will be creating a new IDL interfaces for the OPENdap project. These will connect the entire OPENdap community to resources and other information about this distributed data access effort. The work is through a subcontract with OPENdap and the University of Rhode Island.

June 17, 2001
NSDL Data Discovery

May 2, 2003
The New Media Research Institute partners with Stormcenter Communications, Inc. to develop the software for Stormcenter’s Envirocast™TV system.

May 22, 2003
With a subcontract from UCAR (a non-profit corporation in Boulder, Colorado), The New Media Studio will be creating novel technologies that can help students study real-time weather data or decades of archived ocean, solid earth, cryospheric, or atmospheric data in the classroom.