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 Jabber/GTalk: andrewgodwin(a)gmail.com MSN: andrew_godwin(a)hotmail.com Web: http://www.ox.compsoc.net