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A change currently unfolding is the move from desktop computing as we know it, where applications run on a person’s computer, to network computing. The idea is to distribute an application across a network of computers, primarily the Internet. Whereas people in 2005 might have used Microsoft Word for their word-processing needs, people today might use Google Docs.
This paper details a project, started in 2007, to enable scientific programming through an environment based in an Internet browser. Scientific programming is an integral part of math, science and engineering.
This paper shows how the Calq system can be used for scientific programming, and evaluates how well it works. Testing revealed something unexpected. Google Chrome outperformed other browsers, taking only a fraction of the time to perform a complex task in Calq.
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Weeks, M. (2011). An Internet-Based Scientific Programming Environment. In: Cherifi, H., Zain, J.M., El-Qawasmeh, E. (eds) Digital Information and Communication Technology and Its Applications. DICTAP 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 166. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21984-9_1
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