Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Right, they’ll teach this old pony a new trick… BBC NEWS | Technology | Online worlds to be AI incubators Online worlds such as Second Life will soon become training grounds for artificial intelligences. Researchers at US firm Novamente have created software…
Introduction to this occasional series on Second Life experiences Prepared for Com 435, Spring 2007, Purdue University Subscribe to the series rss feed A second life used to be something people dreamed about, but now Linden Labs a San Francisco based media…
Introduction to this occasional series on Second Life experiences Prepared for Com 435, Spring 2007 Subscribe to the series rss feed When I first created Horatio DeCuir, I created him a burgeoning world full of hope and opportunity. Second Life was being…
An occasional series on Second Life. Subscribe to the series rss feed Second Life goes through a major growth crisis and its promises often fall short of expectations. Irresponsive servers, crashing software clients, and a lack of communication tools might significantly slow…
Peter Ludlow’s (aka Urizenus Sklar) adventures in cyberspace, especially in what is now known as the Metaverse, are legendary and the stuff of legend. His latest book, coming up in October, which I had the privilege to read as a pre-print manuscript,…
This series of Business Week articles maps out more than a year of high hopes and incredile public mood swings related to the newly minted Second Life 3D virtual reality environment (Update April 19: The Business Week search engine seems to be…
Confirming the suspicion of those who, like myself, believe that social behaviors are similarly codified across social universes, a Stanford study found that online nonverbal communication patterns closely reflect offline communication strategies. Study: Virtual men are standoffish too – Yahoo! News NEW…
Com 435, Emerging Communication Technologies (150 enrolled students), will organize in the last two weeks of April an eight team soccer tournament in Second Life. Students will play use avatars and very funny names and I will preside as Cyclops Argus. The…
Second Life takes a toll on the campus administrator community. In an unmistakeable sign of linear project its members believe that the future will be 3D. Second Life, a increasigly unwielidy environment, victim of its own success, cannot be the solution to…