John Kucera

The ubiquitous presence of the Internet has enabled a new software deployment paradigm in which software applications are downloaded from the internet and run within a Web browser, rather than being installed on each end-user's computer. This new paradigm significantly reduces the total cost of ownership of desktop computers in a corporate IT environment by eliminating the need to manually deploy new versions of the software. It also makes applications more portable by allowing users to access their programs and data remotely from any computer with a network connection. However, despite these recent advances, several major technical hurdles remain. One of the most difficult problems is to develop a productive and highly interactive user interface that is widely compatible among various clients, and that can be developed and maintained at a reasonable cost. Today, mo... (more)