NYU and Tiltfactor Lab Computer Science Colloquium

Oct. 3, 2005

Type: event
Starts: Oct 7 2005 at 12:00AM
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NYU and Tiltfactor Lab Invite Virtual World Creator Philip Rosedale (Second Life, Inc) for Inter-University Colloquium

Computer Science Department, New York University and Tiltfactor Lab, Hunter College

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM

Speaker: Philip Rosedale, Second Life Inc.

Title: Building a World with Digital Atoms

Friday, October 7, 2005 - 11:30 a.m.

Room 109 Warren Weaver Hall
251 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10012-1185

Learn more about Second Life, the unique, online, 3D Society bringing issues of online intellectual property and user's rights to the forefront of discussions about digital culture. In Second Life, participants build their own communities, games, and economies. Second Life (SL) gives its users (referred to as residents) tools to shape the world. Much of the content in the SL world is user-created, and a hallmark feature of SL is users retain the intellectual property rights to the objects they create–a very distinct difference from other online community or game environments.

Philip Rosedale, Founder and CEO of Linden Lab, creator of Second Life, will discuss the challenges of using a distributed network of computers to create a persistent 3D online world where users can do just about anything they can imagine.

Philip Rosedale has an extensive background in the development and pioneering of streaming technology, having built his first computer in 4th grade, and started his first computer software company while still in high school. In 1995 he developed FreeVue, a low-bitrate video conferencing system for Internet-connected PC's, resulting in the acquisition of his company in early 1996 by RealNetworks. For 3 1/2 years, Rosedale served at RealNetworks as Vice President and CTO, where he was responsible for the development and launch of RealVideo, RealSystem 5.0, and RealSystem G2. In 1999 Rosedale returned to San Francisco, joined Accel Partners as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and began the basic research that would become the technology behind Linden Lab. Rosedale holds a BS degree in Physics from the University of California at San Diego.

Refreshments will be served at 11 am. This talk is open to the public and students from Parsons, CUNY, SVA, Pratt, the New School, and Columbia are especially encouraged to attend.

Hosts: Ken Perlin, [email protected] (212) 998-3386

Mary Flanagan, [email protected]

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Colloquium Information:http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/index.html