Principal Investigators:
Prof. Hal Abelson - Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Dave Mitchell, Microsoft Research

Additional Investigators:
Eric Carlson (Microsoft Research), Connie Cheng, Edmund Chou, Eric Ho, Jonathan Lau, Thomas Quealy, Alex Sedeno, Vishy Venugopalan, Ken Walker, Peter Weng

Project Overview:

The iCampus Framework project is implementing a collection of web services that illustrate the benefits of service architectures for university educational computing infrastructure. These benefits include the ability to modularize implementations of educational computing applications, to create reusable components, and to enable component and resource sharing within the university and across institutions.

These services are being implemented using Microsoft's .NET architecture, and they will interoperate with other Web service architectures that adhere to World Wide Web Consortium's service standards based on SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and WSDL (Web Service Definition Language).

Our initial focus is on creating Web service modules to support two other iCampus projects: iLab and Online essay evaluation. For iLab, we are building "lab controllers" that provide the basic authorization, resource allocation, event notification, and collaboration services required to deploy on-line laboratories in a way that can be scaled across multiple laboratories at multiple insitititions. For Essay, we are building the basic authorization and workflow services to support that project's vision of a worldwide service where universities collaborate in online evaluation.