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
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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
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Andrew Godwin, President, Oxford University Computer Society
Jabber/GTalk: andrewgodwin(a)gmail.com
MSN: andrew_godwin(a)hotmail.com
Web:
http://www.ox.compsoc.net