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Jim Purbrick, Linden Lab
Dr Jim Purbrick has both academic and industry experience in designing
and building virtual worlds. At Nottingham University he worked on the
MASSIVE-3 virtual environment system and Prix Ars Electronica-winning
mixed-reality games with IGDA award winners, Blast Theory. In industry
Jim designed online games at Codemasters, developed networking and load
balancing technology for Warhammer Online, and is currently working on
scripting and networking technology for Second Life while setting up
Linden Lab Brighton.
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Presentation: "Challenges in Building Second Life"
Time:
Wednesday 10:30 - 11:20
Location:
Musikhuset C 103
Abstract: Second Life is a large, on-line virtual world where avatars dance, fly,
shop, play, meet, work, fall in love... and program. About 256k
residents of Second Life have written 2.5 billion lines of code and run
30 million scripts 24/7 in a 3D landscape close to the size of Denmark.
This giant, collaborative development environment is run on a grid of
over 20,000 CPUs that simulate the land of Second Life. Integrating the
Mono virtual machine in to this environment has presented a huge set of
challenges but also major advantages and paves the way towards a day
where the Second Life software speaks as many languages as its residents.
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