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An introduction to second life and
how it is already being used by the University of Edinburgh to
aid collaboration and improve research. Second life is an
online 3-D universe that allows individuals to live out
-
virtually - dreams, hopes, ambitions and sometimes fall
in love. Professor Austin Tate will add yet another
dimension to this universe: it's use in education, research
and collaboration.
Second Life and other emerging massive on-line
persistent 3-D virtual world environments are set to follow
the 2-D web as an essential element of future computing
systems and are becoming more widely used
in education,
scientific collaboration and a range of other
applications.
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.
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~ai/
Please
spread the word about the talk, and feel free to print out the
poster
and hang it around your institute. Also note
that the talk will start at 9,
not 8.30. This is due
to the Fringe Festival making the Filmhouse bar a
bit
busier than usual. |
