NMC Campus Observer

Metanomics This Week: David Levine and IBM Virtual Worlds

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Mar 3, 2008 09:06am

Today’s weekly Metanomics session available to view on NMC Campus features Robert Bloomfield’s interviewing of David Levine (no relation to my RL avatar), from IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center, and will cover some of the latest effort from IBM in the Virtual World’s space

David is a 23 year employee of IBM Research, with summer and university internships, extending back another five years. His interests in Social computing and online collaboration extends back to work in 1982-1985 in IBM’s online BBS style conferencing systems, and tools for sharing applications in the very early days of Personal Computing.

David has worked on a variety of projects in his IBM career, including network and systems management, Intelligent Agents, Reasoning engines, high distributed e-mail systems and reasoning systems for policy based systems.

David’s current work is focused on Virtual Worlds technology, and the long term implications of broadly deployed social collaboration tools. He works with Linden Lab’s Architecture Working Group, and IBM’s OpenSim team. David’s work includes both the technical work needed to permit inter-operation between virtual worlds, and how policy and social implications of this work.

David can be found in Second Life as Zha Ewry.

• When: Monday, March 3, at 11:00am PST (check local time)
• Where: Amphitheater on Outreach Outreach (87, 125, 34) (no group membership is required to teleport)

You will want to join the Metanomics group in SL so you can participate in the group IM that goes on during the live sessions.

For past events, see the Metanomics video archive from SLCN.tv.

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