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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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Friday, February 24, 2012
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Colloquium Event with Crista Lopes: Architectures for Online Massive Multi-User Virtual Environments |
Event Type: CS Colloquium
Time: 11 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: SSL 150
Architectures for Online Massive Multi-User Virtual Environments
Abstract:
In this talk I will explore the idea of developing MMUVEs in REST style [Fielding 2000]. This idea embeds three conflicting forces. First, one argument against it is the fact that academic research in networked games in the past 15 years has focused primarily on peer-to-peer architectures, as there is the belief that they scale better than client-server architectures. Second, another argument against the idea is that although the online game engineering community has long been using client-server architectures, not peer-to-peer, it has kept away from the Web. Third, on the plus side, the Web with HTML5 is becoming a serious contender for interactive graphical applications. As such, MMUVEs over HTML5 will very likely happen, but the question remains on how to engineer these systems, and whether REST principles are appropriate or not.
Bio:
Crista Lopes is Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to being in Academia, she worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (1995-2001), where she helped shape the concept of Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and the community around it. She has taken that research thread into the field of Information Retrieval. Her software engineering research work has always been driven by the development of large-scale systems. Recently, she has been working on MMO virtual worlds and their applications beyond gaming. She is a core contributor to the OpenSimulator project, a virtual world platform. She is the recipient of several NSF grants, including a CAREER Award. She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, a Senior Member of IEEE, and Ohloh Kudos Rank 9. Dr. Lopes has a PhD from Northeastern University, and MS and BS degrees from Instituto Superior Tecnico in Portugal.
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