The Webware, Interfaces and Networking Experimental Laboratory

这个项目的目标是改变计算机网络，用户界面和Web件的主题被视为和教学的方式。 学生不仅需要理解每个领域中的重要概念，而且需要更好地理解领域之间相互作用的效果。 复杂的用户界面所提供的网络流量在类型、数量和服务质量需求方面更加多样化。 由于计算机网络可能将用户、界面和底层应用程序分离，用户界面的设计必须考虑网络延迟以及只能通过网络提供的专用设备的接口。 Web件技术的发展自然发生在用户界面与计算机网络的交互上。 在这个项目中采取的方法是开发一个单一的实验室，计算机网络，人机交互和网络课件课程。 这个实验室的工作名称是Web-Ware，Interfaces，and Networking Experimental Laboratory，简称WINE Lab。 它被三门课程中的每一门课程的学生和选择使用其设施进行高级项目的学生使用。 据估计，每年有200至250名学生可以使用这个实验室。 葡萄酒实验室改进了这三门课程，因为学生有机会完成项目，实验相关技术，并在通用计算环境中不可能实现的主题之间建立联系。 工业界的联系人表示，他们真实的需要学生的这种经验，而与此同时，在其他机构却几乎找不到有关的工作。 这些发现表明，这些是计算机科学课程中越来越重要的领域，学生没有做好充分的准备。

The objective of this project is to change the way in which the topics of computer networks, user interfaces, and Web-Ware are viewed and taught. Not only do students need to understand the important concepts in each domain, but students need to better understand the effects of the interaction between the domains. Sophisticated user interfaces are contributing network traffic that is more varied in its type, amount, and quality of service needs. With computer networks potentially separating the user, interface, and underlying application, the design of user interfaces must take into account network delays as well as interfaces to special-purpose devices available only over the network. The development of web-ware technology naturally occurs at the interaction between user interfaces and computer networks. The approach taken in this project is to develop a single laboratory for Computer Networks, Human Computer Interaction, and Web-Ware courses. The working name for this lab is the Web-Ware, Interfaces, and Networking Experimental Laboratory, or the WINE Lab for short. It is used by students enrolled in each of the three courses and by students choosing to use its facilities for their senior projects. It is estimated that 200 to 250 students each year can make use of this laboratory. The WINE Lab improves these three courses because students have the opportunity to complete projects, experiment with relevant techniques, and make connections between topics that would be impossible in a general-purpose computing environment. There is a real need expressed by industrial contacts for such experience by students while at the same time little related work was found at other institutions. These findings suggest that these are increasingly important areas of the computer science curriculum for which students are not being adequately prepared.