Sun Virtual World Workshop & Open Jive Regional Challenge 2009 - Singapore Finals

You are invited to the Sun Virtual World Workshop and the Singapore Finals of the Open Jive Regional Challenge 2009 which will be held on 18 June at ITE College East.

At the half-day Virtual World workshop, experts from the Project Wonderland team will provide an in-depth introduction to the Wonderland 3D virtual world toolkit for developers and 3D artists. Gain insights on related open source technologies including the Project Darkstar server infrastructure, the jVoiceBridge high-fidelity audio component, and the Sun SPOT sensor platform. You will learn how to install Wonderland and begin developing worlds with custom artwork and plug-in modules.

In the afternoon, join us at the Open Jive Singapore finals, where the top six teams from tertiary institutions in Singapore will present their innovative applications and ideas to the audience and judging panel. There will also be a Q&A session where you can ask the teams questions on their projects. The Singapore champions and winners of the Sun Technology Award, Sun Innovation Award, Sun Participation Award, Elixir's Market Potential Challenge and Parasoft's Code Quality Challenge will be announced at the event. Join in the excitement and find out who are the champions who will be representing Singapore to compete for the regional grand champion spot!

Event Details:

Date 18 June 2009, Thursday Time 9.00am - 2.10pm (Sun Virtual World Workshop) 2.10pm - 5.00pm (Open Jive Regional Challenge 2009 - Singapore Finals) Venue ITE-Sun Engineering IT Solutions Centre, Technology Block, Level 4, ITE College East, 10 Simei Avenue Map

Seats are limited.

Virtual World Workshop: Speakers' Bios

1. Nichole Yankelovich is Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Environments project at Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Burlington, MA. Her areas of expertise include collaborative computing, speech applications, hypertext, and user experience design. Recent collaboration prototypes include Project Wonderland, a virtual world toolkit for business and education collaboration; Porta-Person, a telepresence device; Meeting Central, a suite of tools to augment audio conferences; Awarenex, an instant messaging client with advanced presence features; and SharedShell, a multi-user terminal program that works across firewalls. Nichole holds six patents related to interaction design and has published numerous articles and book chapters on collaborative environments, speech applications, and hypertext. She has served on the organizing and program committees of conferences such as CHI, CSCW, UIST, ASSETS, and Hypertext, and she is the local host of the BostonCHI monthly meetings.
    
2. Jonathan Kaplan is a researcher in the Collaborative Environments group in Sun Microsystems Laboratories. As an architect of Project Wonderland, he focuses on how to build extensible, secure and scalable virtual worlds for business and education collaboration. His contributions to Wonderland include the core communications APIs, web administration framework and implementation of security and federation. Prior projects in Sun Labs include Meeting Central, a suite of tools to augment audio conferences; and Conference Manager, an AJAX prototype of a conference management tool based on SIP servlets. He has published several papers in conferences such as CSCW and CHI, and is a frequent speaker at events like JavaOne. Before joining Sun Labs, Jonathan worked on system management software for Sun's volume systems. His work included hardware monitoring, as well as fault analysis and reporting. Jonathan is also a co-author of the book "J2EE Design Patterns" from O'Reilly.

The organizer reserves the right to make any changes to the challenge.

If you have any questions, please send an email to openjive-ext@sun.com.

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