IBM
IBM in the Metaverse
9/20/2007 IBM in the Metaverse was a 3-world event with Sandra Kearney, IBM's Global Director of 3D-Internet and Virtual Business. This mind-stretching show seamlessly integrated real-world feeds from a Cornell (Johnson School) classroom, a feed of Sandra's avatar in IBM's ActiveWorlds space, and our audience in Second Life.
Details on Metanomics with David Levine, IBM
Materials related to this program are now compiled here.
David Levine, from IBM's TJ Watson Research Center, is a 23 year employee of IBM Research, with summer and university interneships, extending back another five years. His interests in Social computing and online collaboratoin extends back to work in 1982-1985 in IBM's onfline BBS style conferencing systems, and tools for sharing applications in the very early days of Personal Computing.
David has worked on a variety of projects in his IBM career, including network and systems management, Intelligent Agents, Reasoning engines, high distributed e-mail
systems and reasoning systems for policy based systems.
David's current work is focused on Virtual Worlds technology, and the long term
implications of broadly deployed social collaboration tools. He works with Linden Lab's
Architecture Working Group, and IBM's OpenSim team. David's work includes both the
technical work needed to permit interoperation between virtual worlds, and how
policy and social implications of this work.
David can be found in Second Life as Zha Ewry.
