[Klug-general] Kent BCS event - Washing Away Cave Paintings (Animation and Games Development)

[James Morris]

On 14 March 2011 13:26, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure if Kent LUG people are interested in this or not, but this looks
> interesting from the Kent branch of the BCS: http://www.kent.bcs.org/
> 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?
> Anyway, it's this Thursday in Canterbury:
> Washing Away Cave Paintings (Animation and Games Development)
> Event details
> Date: Thursday March 17th 2011
> Time: 18:30 start. Refreshments available from 18:00
> Venue: Room SW101 School of Computing, Building J3, University of Kent,
> Canterbury, CT2 7NZ
> Cost: Free (and open to non BCS members)
> Synopsis:
> 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.
> Speaker:
> 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.
> 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.

Yes this sounds interesting - I would like to go but
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr my flaming crappy shift pattern grrrrrrrrrrrr.

I am for one interested in this type of thing, so yes post more
if/when it arises.

Cheers,
James.



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