Universities offering classes inside of MMOs

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MMOs discourage heroism, FRPGs encourage
it

MMOs discourage heroism, FRPGs encourage
it 08/07/2004 05:30 AM
Very good Terra Nova post analyses the ways that Massively Multiplayer games discourage the acts of heroism that made D&D so much fun to play.

On one level, this tale highlights the plight of low levels in the MMORPG. They pose the litmus test: do opportunities for heroism exist for them in and amongst the treadmills? Is it ever possible for a low-level to make a *real difference?* Perhaps, for some, an exceptional stand by a NOOB ("newbie") party against MOB trains (large flocks of NPC monsters) in some NOOB dungeon somewhere, qualifies. But is there a more fundamental difference?

Consider. Can one make the argument that MMORPGs, as an adventuring platform, have gone astray with player = single(few)-avatar assumption? Because of the investment of time (read treadmills), social and emotional capital, players are practically limited by the number of characters they can play. Consequently, they are loath to get in "over their heads" and virtual worlds are loath to offer dire scenarios with only heroic exits for a few. Hardly a profound point, but the question: is such a dynamic, in some guise, necessary for the organic emergence of heroic narratives in an MMORPG?

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Body language and facial expressions in
MMOs

Body language and facial expressions in
MMOs 07/20/2004 04:44 AM
Good piece on Mindjack on the rise of body-language cues in Massively Multiplayer online games with emphasis on Second Life's toolkit:

"V-Chat," launched in 1995, was an early contender in the ballooning collection of larger-scope chat spaces that encompassed both 2D and 3D graphics. V-Chat's avatars, although primitive, were both customizable and capable of expressing a range of emotional states. Microsoft's 2D "Comic Chat" built upon the facial expressions Microsoft had tested with V-Chat. Comic Chat displayed text in speech or thought bubbles, allowing users to express not only their public, but "private" thoughts; AI-detection of user-typed acronyms would cause one of the illustrated avatars to assume an appropriate pose, such as waving if the user had typed "BRB" for "be right back." While both the 2D Comic Chat and 3D V-Chat gave users more expressive outlets, it was ultimately 3D space that would offer the greatest potential for interpersonal dynamics. After analyzing logs from V-Chat sessions, Microsoft Research found that "Overall, V-Chat users appear to be using the 3D features of the program to reproduce the social conventions of physical proxemics."2 The opening up of chat to 3D space allowed users to communicate nonverbally simply by establishing location and facing relative to other participants.

Link (Thanks, Donald)

Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - Inside
-really inside - one of the world's
fastest computers (USATODAY.com)

Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - Inside
-really inside - one of the world's
fastest computers (USATODAY.com) 09/03/2004 10:25 AM
USATODAY.com - Yesterday I stood inside what is probably the world's third-most-powerful supercomputer - the Terascale Computing Facility at Virginia Tech. (I say "probably" because the testing won't be done till next week - the Department of Defense is using it right now and can't be interrupted.) It's composed of 1100 Macintosh G5 computers running in parallel.

Inside the Beltway - The Washington
Times: Inside the Beltway - September
07, 2004

Inside the Beltway - The Washington
Times: Inside the Beltway - September
07, 2004 09/25/2004 09:10 AM

Universities and the EU

Universities and the EU 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
The BBC's Mike Baker asks whether the expansion on the European Union will make it harder to get a university place.

Universities Get Together

Universities Get Together 02/17/2004 01:00 PM
The National University of Singapore is working on a plan to enable interoperability among networks of partner universities: The arrangement would mean that students on exchange programs could use the networks. But wouldn't they be able to anyway? I would think that a student from a university in Singapore who may be on exchange at Stanford would automatically be allowed to use the Stanford network. It seems that this plan has a broader reach, however, with plans to allow students from any of the partner universities to use any of the networks. That could be useful for traveling students who may not actually be exchange students. A similar initiative among European universities is underway, spearheaded by Portugal's universities....

Universities get wi-fi access

Universities get wi-fi access 07/04/2004 01:43 PM
Students will soon be able to access the internet from anywhere around their campus, even the student bar.

Universities cash in on IP

Universities cash in on IP 02/16/2004 09:29 AM
Spin-off companies, patents, on the rise

How Bad Is Plagiarism At Universities?

How Bad Is Plagiarism At Universities? 06/30/2004 09:07 PM
When you have students suing universities when caught plagiarizing you know that plagiarism isn't always frowned upon by students. However, despite the scary language used in this article, the numbers really don't seem that ridiculous. About twenty-five percent of students admit to plagiarizing at some point or another (though, the article describes this as "cheating his or her way through degrees"). Meanwhile, 97% say they know its cheating, but 17% still think it's okay anyway. Now, it's obviously cheating, but to be honest, these numbers don't see all that high or surprising. There are always going to be students who cheat at one point or another. While the article includes anecdotal stories about students who have copied material repeatedly, the study doesn't actually address how many students chronically cheat, and how many have just done it on occasion. I'm not defending those who do it, but the article uses language that would make you think that no one ever writes their own work any more, and the numbers in the study simply don't support that.

Pitching Universities

Pitching Universities 12/04/2002 09:25 PM
Google's got a new page up, pitching a job at Google to university students. As they point out, the goal of the Google lifestyle was to make it like grad school. (Thanks, Henk!)...

Demand for universities 'to soar'

Demand for universities 'to soar' 05/10/2004 07:08 PM
Up to 240,000 extra university places may be needed to cope with growing demand, an independent think tank says.

RIAA Co-Opts More Universities

RIAA Co-Opts More Universities 07/19/2004 06:14 PM

Universities to charge top fees

Universities to charge top fees 03/17/2005 02:54 AM
Nine out of 10 universities in England are to charge the most they can in top-up fees from next year.

'Global warning' to universities

'Global warning' to universities 09/15/2004 01:53 PM
US universities could soon compete for students in London, a leading vice-chancellor says.

FileWave X 1.5 free for K-12 and
universities

FileWave X 1.5 free for K-12 and
universities 02/19/2004 08:35 AM
FileWave, makers of management software for the Mac, announced recently that they will offer FileWave X 1.5 free to K-12 schools and universities through December 23.

Universities vie to attract students

Universities vie to attract students 03/19/2005 02:40 AM
The BBC's Mike Baker looks at the bursary offers that now differentiate English universities.

Scots universities 'to disappear'

Scots universities 'to disappear' 04/29/2004 04:21 PM
Universities are set to disappear north of the border, under controversial proposals to be announced by the Scottish Executive.

Universities: A marriage of convenience

Universities: A marriage of convenience 11/11/2003 08:11 AM
Technology alliances are proliferating in higher education, where companies sponsor research that advances their agendas, and concerns over conflicts of interest give way to pragmatism.

Is plagiarism at universities out of
control?

Is plagiarism at universities out of
control? 03/22/2005 04:37 PM
Is plagiarism at universities out of control? Academic Plagiarism is a growing problem in the university world and is not just making headlines in the United States anymore. While some professors are morally opposed, the growing popularity of professors forcing students to submit works ahead of time to companies like Turnitin may be an indicator of of this growing problem. With more and more employers complaining about the writing skills of new hires, are we just cheating ourselves in the end?

PHP Classes

PHP Classes 06/08/2002 10:22 AM
IF you've been programming with PHP you may have came across OOP. The term OOP stays for Object Oriented Programming and refers to a technique in which you work with Objects in your programs. When I first started using Objects in PHP it was difficult for me to understand its concept, but, once I got it, I found them quite simple to work with...

Universities collaborate to work with
DSpace

Universities collaborate to work with
DSpace 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

A group of colleges has formed to collaboratively develop MIT 's DSpace , an archiving project for campus digital materials. The group consists of Cambridge , Columbia , Cornell , Ohio State , and the Universities of Rochester , Toronto , and Washington .

DSpace is "an electronic system that captures, preserves and communicates the intellectual output of MIT's faculty and researchers." Anyone may download the DSpace code , which is freely available, along with documentation .

MIT designed DSpace with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories to allow professors to store reports and other research documents in a searchable digital archive. Eventually, MIT officials hope, professors will be able find scholastic research as easily as college students search for MP3's of their favorite music.

DSpace was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Hewlett-Packard .

(from the Chronicle )

Apple Denmark Touring Universities

Apple Denmark Touring Universities 03/13/2003 10:23 AM

Universities Learn The Power Of
Collaboration

Universities Learn The Power Of
Collaboration 12/16/2003 12:32 PM
Slowly, but surely, it appears to be dawning on a number of people that building on the works of others often creates something much much better for everyone. Instead of locking stuff down under increasingly obsolete intellectual property laws, a few universities are en couraging people to share and reuse content to create newer and better results. They're realizing that instead of focusing on locking each piece down - which slows the ability to innovate - opening up certain content lets creativity and innovation grow at a more reasonable pace. As people learn how to make productive use of such offerings, it's going to be increasingly difficult to support the idea that our current intellectual property rules do much to help innovation.

ISC and Universities Provide Hosting
Services

ISC and Universities Provide Hosting
Services 02/10/2004 02:35 AM

ISC and Universities Provide Hosting
Services

ISC and Universities Provide Hosting
Services 11/10/2003 11:14 PM

Universities Advocating Mozilla Online

Universities Advocating Mozilla Online 12/19/2004 03:24 PM
While navigating to a class website, I found a subtle jab at Internet Explorer followed by Firefox advocacy: Some Windows-Internet Explorer users continue to report sporadic problems when logging in to courses.utexas.edu. One symptom is that clicking the "Login" button on the next page does not do anything. Reports indicate that using a different browser such as Firefox seems to help, as does reloading [the] /webapps/login page. Please contact the ITS Help Desk for more assistance. Know of other university technology administrators guiding their respective communities (online) to Mozilla applications? Speak up.

Wikipedia 'to make universities
obsolete'

Wikipedia 'to make universities
obsolete' 09/07/2004 12:49 PM
Look out, Old Guard - it's the Khmer Rouge in nappies

SAP expands research collaboration with
universities

SAP expands research collaboration with
universities 04/06/2005 06:10 PM
Company gets access to talented researchers and cutting-edge research, while universities can collaborate with a company involved in a broad range of software engineering technologies.

Universities 'must sell expertise'

Universities 'must sell expertise' 08/18/2004 02:53 PM
UK higher education is not doing enough to sell its technology and ideas around the world, a report says.

Should universities permit free speech?

Should universities permit free speech? 01/07/2004 04:25 PM

The October 10, 2003 issue of MIT's student newspaper, the Tech, carried some articles about a group of unfortunate students who decided to hold a ghetto/rap-themed party in their dorm.  The invitation email started "Callin all you playas, pimps, hos, gangstas, and bitches...".  Various campus functionaries indicated their displeasure at what they viewed as an assault on the sacred principle of diversity. The students immediately issued a craven apology to the community but nonetheless Chuck Vest, the president of MIT, responded by noting that his administration would "deal swiftly and fairly with those responsible for the event."

Today's issue of the Tech carries some more invective from the administration directed as these allegedly racist students.

There was no actual evidence of racism by the students holding the party and in fact the only people involved in this dispute who are known to judge others by the color of their skin are the MIT administrators themselves.

A very similar situation occurred in the 1990s at University of California Riverside.  A fraternity held a "South of the Border" party advertised with a poster featuring a sleeping Mexican, complete with sombrero and tequila bottle.The frat boys were harshly disciplined until a lawyer sued the school, pointing out that (a) half of the fraternity brothers were Mexican-American, and (b) the First Amendment prohibited a state institution from editing the fraternity's party posters.  A federal judge sided with the students.

So many university administrations have tried to muzzle their students that an entire non-profit organization, http://www.thefire.org, exists to fight back.

Perhaps, however, the university bureaucrats are doing the right thing after all.  The U.S. Constitution guarantees that the government won't interfere with your right to free speech.  Private employers, however, are free to say "You will continue to receive a paycheck so long as you stay in your cubicle with your head down and your mouth shut."  Only a tiny fraction of Americans have a practical right to free speech and these are primarily the very rich and the very poor.  A primary mission of a college is to prepare young people for the real world.  Does it really make sense to delude kids into thinking that they can say whatever they want and still have a paycheck and health insurance?  Perhaps it would be better for a university president to address the incoming freshmen thusly... "This is my plantation and if you want to stay here for four years you'll learn to say 'Yes, Massah'".

Universities to build largest telescope

Universities to build largest telescope 08/06/2004 08:03 PM
globetechnology.com Aug 7 2004 0:58AM GMT

Universities 'face £2m vetting cost'

Universities 'face £2m vetting cost' 02/19/2004 07:57 AM
Plans for bright children to get through school quicker will force universities to vet staff, Conservatives warn.

Universities applaud fees vote

Universities applaud fees vote 01/27/2004 04:00 PM
The government's narrow victory on tuition fees has been hailed as a "landmark" by university chiefs.

Abstract classes in .NET

Abstract classes in .NET 10/26/2002 03:40 AM
CNET Oct 26 2002 2:37AM ET

PHP imdb Classes

PHP imdb Classes 04/08/2005 08:54 AM
Project management changes

Search for Classes

Search for Classes 03/17/2005 03:26 AM
Search for Classes
http://www.searchforclasses.co m/

SearchForClasses is a source to research online and on-campus college degrees. Selecting the ideal career and educational paths are among your most important life choices. They offer information on hundreds of on-campus and online programs, plus valuable tools to help you sort through and identify the best program for your needs. Bachelor degrees, MBAs, and other college certification programs can be easily browsed and searched. SearchForClasses invites you to visit their numerous online and on-campus colleges -- and to meet other students from all over North America. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide.

Parrot classes

Parrot classes 12/17/2004 06:34 PM
It sadly is an all too common story.  Somebody new to a codebase, oblivious to all the history, sees one thing they can't do, and proposes a radical refactoring.  Why should I be any different? ...

PHP XML Classes 1.7 released

PHP XML Classes 1.7 released 06/26/2002 01:01 PM
New version of the package grouping all the classes, included the RDDL parser class.

EJB Foundation Classes

EJB Foundation Classes 05/30/2004 02:41 PM
EJB Foundation Classes Version 1.0 Released
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