Mr. Jianyu Chen, a Computer Science graduate student, has joined the Implementation Team as a half-time programmer, and been charged with evaluating the ESRI MapObjects technology. He has completed a MapObjects-based re-implementation of the ADL Web Prototype's map browser, which was demonstrated at the December 1996 DLI meeting. He is helping to refine our specification for a generic map browser and will continue to work on evaluating other Web-oriented technologies from ESRI.
Robert Steinke, a Computer Science graduate student, joined the Implementation Team and was seconded to Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center as an intern for the last four months of 1996, where he worked on user interface and Web issues in the Microsoft Windows NT environment. Mr. Steinke has returned to Santa Barbara and continues to work for the Implementation Team on user interface issues.