Tuesday, December 1, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Free Food and Beverages - Lecture/Talk
Tech and New Media Tuesdays Presents Carl Skelton
"Betaville: a Massively Collaborative Mirror World Editor for Public Art and Urban Planning Applications" Betaville is a prosocial MMO, built by prosocial means: a mod of of an open-source game engine, under development by an international consortium in the USA and Europe, led by the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center (BxmC) at NYU's Polytechnic Institute and the Media2Culture Institut für angewandte Medienforschung at the Hochschule Bremen. Skelton will discuss the current status of the project, near-term development strategy, and some of the interesting possibilities for new uses and research in underlying technologies.
For more information, contact Victoria Szabo by phone at 668-1932.
URL: http://isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Thursday, December 3, 2009 :: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture/Talk - Panel/Seminar/Colloquium
Duke University Seminar on Global Health: Geoffrey Garnett
DGHI/DuPRI seminar - Dr. Geoffrey Garnett - Professor, Microparasite Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London. Topic: TBD. Duke University Seminar on Global Health series is a university-wide interdisciplinary initiative which connects those from Duke and area universities with nationally-recognized experts to explore critical issues in the field of global health. This lecture is also part of the DuPRI seminar series.
For more information, contact Joelle Rogers by phone at 681-7935.
URL: http://globalhealth.duke.edu/news-events/calendar/dghi-dupri-seminar-geoff-garnett-imperial-college