<div>Not sure if Kent LUG people are interested in this or not, but this looks interesting from the Kent branch of the BCS: <a href="http://www.kent.bcs.org/">http://www.kent.bcs.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Not sure if you would like this sort of thing added to the LUG calendar or not or if we should look to form a tie of some sorts with Kent branch of the BCS?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, it's this Thursday in Canterbury:</div><div><br></div><div>Washing Away Cave Paintings (Animation and Games Development) </div><div><br></div><div>Event details</div><div>Date: Thursday March 17th 2011</div>
<div>Time: 18:30 start. Refreshments available from 18:00</div><div>Venue: Room SW101 School of Computing, Building J3, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NZ</div><div>Cost: Free (and open to non BCS members)</div><div>
<br></div><div>Synopsis:</div><div>In this talk Ian Hughes will share some of the history of human communication and how the current wave of emerging technology in virtual worlds, inputs and outputs to systems and the increasing social and game related concepts being applied, are the catalyst for massive cultural change.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Speaker:</div><div>Chair of the newly formed BCS Animation and Games Development SG, Ian Hughes is also the Director of Feeding Edge Ltd, a company he formed a year ago, having spent 20 years in IBM in emerging technologies, and is credited as a Metaverse Evangelist, having brought big business into virtual worlds from 2006 onwards, including creating the Wimbledon Championships as a virtual world experience.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ian Hughes is a recognised public speaker, blogger and social media activist, and shares his experiences of the growing virtual worlds industry, the use of game principles, the changes in culture, personal experiences of challenging the status quo, also has participated in many TV and press interviews and numerous publications.</div>
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