[compsoc-announce] Week 2: 'Second Life and IBM' Talk

[Andrew Godwin]

Hello, people of CompSoc.

It's Week 2, and we have our first talk of the term on Wednesday, at 8:30:


Second Life and IBM
===================

Speaker: Ian Hughes

 Wednesday 2nd May, 20:30
 Sainsbury Common Room, Worcester College

Ian Hughes talks on Second Life and IBM, and how virtual worlds are
impacting
the company and others:

  Ian Hughes, a.k.a. 'epredator potato' in Second Life, is an IBM
Consulting
  IT Specialist who has worked on leading edge emerging technologies for
the
  past 17 years, a programmer since he was 14. He is now officially an IBM
  Metaverse Evangelist having led in bands of colleagues into Second
Life for
  the past year with a view to understanding what the social, business and
  technical implications are of virtual world technology used with a web
2.0
  mentality and user generated content. What makes this work now? What has
  caused the massive increase in usage from 70,000 to 4.2 million
registrations
  in less than a year? How can business become involved without killing the
  spirit? Who are we online?

Head for the Porter's Lodge at Worcester; there will be someone there to
guide
you to the Sainsbury Common Room.

Second Life is a great subject for a talk, and now the university has
bought an
island[0] it's even more relevant, so come and listen!

[0]: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/secondlife/


Next week, we'll have Ian Hardingham talking about game development; if you
want more information the full termcard is now up on the website, for your
planning pleasure.

See you at the talk.

Andrew

-- 
Andrew Godwin, President, Oxford University Computer Society
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