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Everything about Active Platform

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The Active Platform was the name of a development platform released by Microsoft in the 90s for creating web applications and delivering them to a PC desktop environment. The platform consisted of three parts: ActiveDesktop, which would use push technology to deliver the web applications to the desktop; ActiveServer, which would provide server side scripting; and ActiveX, a set of technologies created to allow software components on different machines to communicate with each other using COM and OLE. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Active PlatformA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: A Multi-Objective Active Learning Platform and Web App for Reaction OptimizationInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: ha-LikudThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Genetically Engineered Liposome‐like Nanovesicles as Active Targeted Transport PlatformCited 162 times
  5. Go sideways: Internet OSA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Blackbird (online platform)A closely related topic

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🆕 Influential since 2022

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