Boulder Virtual Worlds & Gaming Folks – Tidbits from November 4, 2011

Boulder Virtual Worlds & Gaming Folks – Tidbits from November 4, 2011

An informal group has convened at the local lunch place about once per month. Great discussion… Lots happening…  Here is a quick summary of discussion topics.

1) Anders is using Avaya web.alive (http://www.avaya.com/usa/product/avaya-web-alive) for some of his weekly Train For Success and for private meetings.

2) Anders has a great line-up for the weekly Train For Success talks at 10:00am on Thursday. See http://www.facebook.com/TrainForSuccess for details

3) The serious game Fold-It (http://fold.it/) is making waves! We are going to schedule a Fold-It geeks-only evening at Dick’s house…

4) See the Rock Creek Park (created for the Dept of Energy) from the Portfolio tab of http://fragileearthstudios.com/

5) Eric just got back from a special gather-together of federal employees on “Games for America“. Lots of discussion… P.S. see http://www.gamesforamerica.org/

6) Eric will be spending a week in Seattle for the SuperComputing 2011 (http://sc11.supercomputing.org/).
See the list of 349 exhibitors! (http://iebms.heiexpo.com/iebms/oep/oep_p1_exhibitors.aspx?oc=34&ct=OEP&eventid=5011) Who is in booth 903?

7) Jeff and others are involved with pushing GPU paralleling processing as a low-cost approach to massively parallel processing (MPP).

8 ) Dick and Anders downloaded and played with Jibe on their Android smart phones. Cool!!!   http://reactiongrid.blogspot.com/2011/07/jibe-android.html

9) New buzz word – NEIS for NOAA Environmental Information System, which may be a future funding source for Eric, Julien, Jeff and team.

10) Try out TeraViz, also available from the Portfolio tab of http://fragileearthstudios.com/. Focus of NOAA’s exhibit at SuperComputing 2011 next week.

11) Buzz is teaching his Computer Animation class using Maya on Tuesday/Thursdays at 11:00-12:15 in Atlas. Anyone want to observe some day with me?
http://wordsbybuzz.com and http://3dbybuzz.com for details.

12) Julien may be teaching a gaming course at CU next semester. Spring 2012? Any details?

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