I laughed at this so hard I cried. Or maybe I cried because it’s so to the point! Thanks to Universa Vanalten (SL name) for this link.

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When I was a Linguistics undergrad at University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of my favorite courses was a doctoral-level seminar on artificial intelligence. (The prof let me in because he needed three people to sign up to make the course, and I was very keen on it.) One of the books we read was [...]

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According to an anonymous blogger on Sun Microsystems’ website (quoting an InfoWorld article), Sun plans to create a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for the iPhone using Apple’s new iPhone SDK, to be ready in June 2008. Way cool! If that happens, the next step would be a Project Wonderland client for the iPhone….

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An interesting online-only conference starts in a few days: While their claim to be the only online conference is a bit inaccurate, it still seems like a worthwhile way to spend some time for those of us interested in the development of the metaverse.

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Troy McConaghy just posted a message to the Qwaq MICA group about a brand new Virtual World, Tomorrow Space from a company called Transmutable Networks. I naturally immediately signed up for an account (katlemieux) and briefly explored this Web-based world, which only opened to the public this Monday. So far, they have two types of [...]

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In a recent post, I promised a link to the proceedings from a NCOIC session on Networked Virtual Environments. Bob Marcus just sent this info to the Serious SecondLife in Boulder meetup group with the link: The Proceedings of the recent NCOIC Session on Networked Virtual Environments are available at http://semanticommunity.wik.is/Adaptable_Computing_Infrastructure (middle of the page). [...]

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