Archive for February, 2007

Relevance of Afterworld
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Afterworld” is about life on earth after an inexplicable global event
renders technology useless and 99 percent of the population missing. The story follows the adventures of Russell Shoemaker, who wakes up in New York after this event and is compelled to walk to Seattle in the faint hope that his wife and child have survived. [...]

Opening up SL’s source code
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

I think that would be a little bit like implying there’s no business to be had on the Web if you give away Apache. The Web has shown us where a lot of the value is: identity, transactions, search, communities. And so nothing that we’ve talked about requires that Linden Lab give up any of [...]

$3.3M Virtual Dublin R&D Project
Monday, February 19th, 2007

The project combines several disciplines including computer graphics, engineering and cognitive neuroscience research. The project team includes TCD researchers from the Department of Computer Science Professor Carol O’Sullivan and Dr Steven Collins, as well as Dr Fiona Newell from the TCD Institute of Neuroscience and Professor Henry Rice from the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing [...]