Virtual Spaces for Intelligent Collaboration

http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1007/

The impact and influence of Web 2.0-based Services on e-Research

eSI Thematic Programme: The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on
e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

3rd and 4th November 2009

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Austin Tate & Ai Austin

AIAI, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
Appleton Tower, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE, UK

Second Life and other emerging massive on-line persistent 3-D virtual
world environments are set to follow the web and web 2.0 as an
essential element of future collaborative and social computing systems
and are becoming more widely used in education, science, government,
business, and a range of other applications. They will act as an
integrator of many services which today use separate tools, much like
the arrival of the web browser did for a range of facilities in the
early 1990s.

Our speaker, Austin Tate, Director of the Artificial Intelligent
Applications Institute in the School of Informatics at the University
of Edinburgh, and his virtual worlds counterpart 'Ai Austin', will
introduce work at the Virtual University of Edinburgh - Vue - and
describe what some University projects are doing in the Vue regions in
Second Life. He will open up a discussion on how virtual environments
are being used for research, collaboration and teamwork, especially in
his own area of interest in improved emergency response.

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http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~ai/

Biography:

Prof. Austin Tate holds the Chair in Knowledge-Based Systems at the
University of Edinburgh and is the Director of the Artificial
Intelligence Applications Institute within the School of Informatics at
the University.

His internationally sponsored research work is focused on the creation
of a "helpful environment", such as for improved emergency response,
and involves advanced knowledge and planning technologies, and
collaborative systems especially using virtual worlds. He initiated
the "Open Virtual Collaboration Environment" (OpenVCE.net) to create
open source tools in this area. He leads the Virtual University of
Edinburgh, Vue, a virtual educational and research institute bringing
together those interested in the use of virtual worlds for teaching,
research and outreach.

http://vue.ed.ac.uk
http://openvce.net

Image (c) 2009, Austin Tate - permission to use this is granted:
     http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~ai/img/Ai-and-Austin-2.jpg

Other resolution images available at:
     http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~ai/img/