Creating Web-based Laboratories

Creating Web-based LaboratoriesC.C. Ko, Ben M. Chen and Jianping ChenSpringerLondon, Berlin2005ISBN 1-85233-837-7300 pp.US $89.95 (hardcover)

The first two authors are from the National University of Singapore and the last from the Nanyang Technological University Singapore. The book is in the series “Advanced information and Knowledge Processing”.

Creating a web-based laboratory is a novel idea although similar facilities have been produced using a much less sophisticated technology. This book tells us of one strategy for building such laboratories. The aim in this exercise is to create a laboratory that can be used by students to conduct experiments from a remote location. Thus it is suggested that, it can be achieved by setting up parameters and manipulating instruments through a web-based client interface.

Computing Reviews believe that “this book is unquestionably very useful for students of science who have extensive computer programming backgrounds and professors of science who wish to implement web-based laboratories from scratch”.

Further details about the book are available at: springeronline.com

C.J.H. MannBook reviews and reports editor