CACR Seminar: “The Hypergrid: An Architecture for a New Web”

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
2 pm, 100 Powell-Booth

Prof. Crista Lopes
UC Irvine; also, Core Developer, OpenSim; Co-Founder, Metaverse Ink; Co-Founder, Encitra

OpenSim is chartering territory in making Virtual Worlds interoperable with each other and with the Web.  At the heart of it there is the Hypergrid, an emerging architecture that allows the seamless transfer of users’ agents between grids operated by different entities. While the Hypergrid is coming to life in the context of OpenSim-based 3D Virtual Worlds, its foundations shed a new light into what the Web could be.

About the speaker:   Dr. Crista Videira Lopes is an Associate Professor in the 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). She is most known as co-inventor of AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming). She also made contributions to Ubiquitous Computing research with her work on lightweight software acoustic modems that encode small amounts of data in socially-acceptable sounds. Recently she has been working on infrastructures for Virtual Worlds. She is the recipient of several NSF grants, including a prestigious CAREER Award. Dr. Lopes has a PhD from Northeastern University, and MS and BS degrees from Instituto Superior Tecnico in Portugal.