September 22, 2000
New Protocol Helps Researchers Share Large Sets of Data
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago say they have moved a step closer to creating an Internet protocol that will help scientists share data over super-fast research networks.
Documents of all kinds are now easily shared over the World Wide Web through hypertext-transfer protocol, or HTTP. But scientists using even the fastest research networks have no easy way to exchange rows and columns of raw data with other researchers in real time, says
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