Today was a really busy day. It started with 2hrs long meeting with Jani Pirkola from Finland. Jani is the project manager of RealXtend. We have met together with Melanie, Hailing, Lipi and Martin in-world on a SecondLife island. The discussion was centered around the RealXtend open source model, affiliated companies, recent developments, the Otago…
Yesterday, there was an article about Atari’s Golden Years. It made me reflect on some of my teen years, and it made me deeply appreciate those little things that shaped entire trajectories of my life. Like the simple event of my parents decided to buy me my first computer, Atari 800. This is when the love and…
Richard Stallman gave a seminar today to a Dunedin crowd in Castle 1 lecture theatre, University of Otago. Introduced by local Green Party representative, Richard was called “Bill Gates of the free software” – a somewhat unexpected insult. The talk started shortly after 19:00 and went on till 20:30. The term “intellectual property” has been discussed…
Last day of the trip. Going for breakfast to “Raw Power Cafe” on Vulcan street off Queen Street in Auckland. Nice place, good food, freshly prepared juice. Hail storms in the morning, but the weather clears up and pretty nice and sunny later throughout the day. 10:30 Stuart and I meet with Prof. James Goodman Jim…
Digital Future Now Auckland, New Zealand, 13th of August, 2008 9:00 Openning by Mike Hearn, Executive Director, AMCHAM. Reading a pre-prepared welcome message. About 80 people participating. Chair of the session, Rod Oram, Business Columnist. Short address after the official opening. Infrastructure and tools needed to run real-time business from New Zealand. Infrastructure, broadband access, especially in rular…
Today I’ve started a 3-day trip to Wellington and Auckland with Martin and Stuart. Trips provide an opportunity to break the normal daily life-cycle, and often give some time to reflect on general issues, directions of our work and life. Meeting various people from all walks of life, discussing the future of the industry and all the general…
Journal of Database Management (JDM) Special Issue on Virtual Worlds and 3-D Web Journal of Database Management (JDM) Impact Factor: 1.854 Immediacy Index: 1.267 Editor-in-Chief: Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.igi-global.com/jdm">www.igi-global.com/jdm</a> Special Issue on Virtual Worlds and 3-D Web Deadline: 19 January 2009 Special Issue Editors Blake Ives, University of Houston Brian Mennecke,…
Sun’s Wonderland and Darkstar projects Wonderland is the client side of the 3D web project pushed by Sun Microsystems (MPK20 initiative). The man behind the project is Kevin Roebuck. Kevin wrote about the project in one of his posts. It is Java based system that supports 3D-based graphics engine, manages world, animation, and avatars in…
Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language that is claimed to be well suited for parallel programming.Some experts however think otherwise. The author makes a good case for Erlang not being any different to other functional languages without side-effects, capable of exploiting coarse-grained parallelism. I guess it is generally accepted that Erlang offers only good…
Interesting interview with the father of Niagara 1 architecture, Kunle Olukotun in theregister. It is about 60min long, and below are my notes when listening to the interview. It goes a bit into life and career of Kunle himself. Main pointers from the interview: doing parallel programming research with the example of 3D worlds…