Video from last Friday’s virtual world’s conference at MIT is now available in RealPlayer format. The links are available in the left-hand column of the agenda. In some cases, multiple sessions are contained in a single video segment.
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IBM & MIT PRESENT
Virtual Worlds: Where Business, Society, Technology & Policy Converge
Friday, June 15, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
MIT Media Laboratory, Wiesner Building, Bartos Theater
Cambridge, MA
| 8:00 – 9:00 am | Breakfast, Lower Atrium |
| 9:00 – 9:30 am [video #1] |
Opening Remarks Frank Moss, Director, MIT Media Laboratory |
| 9:30 – 10:15 am [video #1] |
Virtual Worlds & Business Value Colin Parris, Vice President, Digital Convergence, IBM |
| 10:15 – 10:30 am | Coffee Break & Demonstrations, Lower & Upper Atrium |
| 10:30 – 11:40 am [video #2] |
Digital Convergence & Identity: A Panel Discussion |
| Moderator: | Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus, IBM Academy of Technology and Visiting Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT |
| Panelists: | John Henry Clippinger, Senior Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, The Harvard Law SchoolJudith Donath, Associate Professor, Sociable Media Research Group, MIT Media Laboratory Dan Hunter, Beth Simone Noveck, Harriet Pearson, |
| 11:40 – 12:30 pm | Lunch & Demonstrations, Lower & Upper Atrium |
| 12:30 – 1:30 pm [video #3] |
Keynote & Q&A Special Guest Mitchell Kapor, Chair, Linden Lab |
| 1:30 – 2:45 pm [video #3] |
Virtual Worlds & Business Value: A Panel Discussion |
| Moderator: | Mitchell Kapor, Chair, Linden Lab |
| Panelists: | Julius Akinyemi, Director, Emerging Technologies, PepsiCoRon Burns, President, ProtonMedia
Robert Gehorsam, President, Forterra Systems Inc. Scott Johnson, Managing Partner, New Atlantic Ventures Sandra Kearney, Global Director, Emerging 3D Internet, IBM Thomas Malone, Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management Adrian Si, Director, Scion/Toyota Motor Sales |
| 2:45 – 3:00 pm | Coffee Break & Demonstrations, Lower & Upper Atrium |
| 3:00 – 4:15 pm [video #4] |
Virtual Worlds Technology & Systems Design: A Panel Discussion |
| Moderator: | Robert Sutor, Vice President, Open Source & Standards, IBM |
| Panelists: | Cynthia Breazeal, Director of MIT Media Laboratory’s Robotic Life Group, MIT Media LaboratoryJan Cannon-Bowers, Associate Professor of Digital Media, University of Central Florida; Senior Research Scientist at UCF’s Center for Research in Education, Art, Technology and Entertainment [Professor Cannon-Bowers was unable to join us on the panel due to travel problems] Mark McCahill, Joe Miller, Jerry Paffendorf, Joseph Paradiso, |
| 4:15 pm | Closing Remarks |
Thanks for posting this, I had it running all day yesterday. I suspect that there are a lot of people kicking themselves for not ‘getting it’ when Gopher and Mosaic appeared. Really, how could anyone have imagined! In some ways, maybe the whole 3D web thing is a chance for a do-over. There’s amazing potential there, but I try to be conscious of my own over-hyping of the technology.
Things do get more interesting by the day. And, yeah, Dylan is cool.