November 12, 2008
RL/SL Connections: Brown Bag on Using Audio in SL
"Can your Avatar hear me now?": Audio in Second Life
Jaime Magiera (a.k.a. Trallfazz) provides an expanded overview of the options for incorporating audio into the Second Life experience. We will discuss audio that originates in Second Life as well as options for bringing real-world audio into Second Life. Brown Bag visitors will be encouraged to utilize sound during this talk. So, please bring headphones or situate yourself in an environment where you can turn up the sound on your computer.
Presentation information:
Wolverine Island
Friday, November 14
9am SLT (12 noon EST)
Here is a picture of Tralfazz being the disc jockey for the Wolverine Island Kickoff Party.
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October 23, 2008
Kickoff: Sheri Jaffurs and SIMphonic Island
Sheri Jaffurs, from University of Michigan Flint, spoke with us about the Teen Grid and her efforts there to establish a safe space for creative teen musicians to share and collaborate on creative musical works.
Music Making in the Cyber World: New Models of Education - SIMphonic Island, Wolverine Island.
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October 22, 2008
Kickoff: Bruce Maxim on UMD in SL and the Ford Grant
For the Wolverine Kickoff, Bruce Maxim introduced us to the University of Michigan Dearborn campus in Second Life, and the work going on to use Second Life to model and teach about food banks and social good in the real world.
Campus of Hope: Using the Virtual World to Improve Our World
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October 21, 2008
Kickoff: Gus Rosania on Research Tools and Collaborations in Second Life
At the Wolverine Kickoff, Gus Rosania talked about science and research collaborations, with a focus on this amazing tool he's created that takes data from a spreadsheet and creates a 3D visualization in Second Life, complete with images. Truly astounding!
A Real Life Research Tool in Second Life: PrimPlotter
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September 16, 2008
SLUM Brown Bag: The RL-SL Connection: Wizard, Mathematical Modeling, and the E8 Polytope
Friday, September 19
Noon to 1:00 PM, EDT
9:00-10:00 AM SLT
Temple of Sacred Geometry: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tibet/141/200/24
Garrett Lisi has achieved recent fame for his model of the E8 Polytope, the most recent claim to a model of a unified field theory for physics. We will see a 3-dimensional version of the model presented, along with the story of its development, by Wizard Gynoid, a Second Life artist who partnered with mathematicians on building the model.
On November 6, 2007, Garrett Lisi (sometimes referred to as a surfer dude) posted an article to arXiv that rocked the profession of particle physics. For more background information on this achievement and how this shows a changing future for academic publishing, look at this presentation on how social technologies empowered an important scientific voice that might not have been heard under the traditional publishing model.
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SLUM Brown Bag: The RL-SL Connection: Wizard, Mathematical Modeling, and the E8 Polytope
Friday, September 19
Noon to 1:00 PM, EDT
9:00-10:00 AM SLT
Temple of Sacred Geometry: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tibet/141/200/24
Garrett Lisi has achieved recent fame for his model of the E8 Polytope, the most recent claim to a model of a unified field theory for physics. We will see a 3-dimensional version of the model presented, along with the story of its development, by Wizard Gynoid, a Second Life artist who partnered with mathematicians on building the model.
On November 6, 2007, Garrett Lisi (sometimes referred to as a surfer dude) posted an article to arXiv that rocked the profession of particle physics. For more background information on this achievement and how this shows a changing future for academic publishing, look at this presentation on how social technologies empowered an important scientific voice that might not have been heard under the traditional publishing model.
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