Artificial Intelligence Experiments in SL

Researchers are using SL to experiment with artificial intelligence. Research staff at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Laboratory made a digital robot, named Edd Hifeng in sl, with limited capacity for speaking and reasoning. You can read the full article by clicking here.

__Laurel

OCLS Second Life Group & History Conference

OCLS now has it's very own Second Life Group, called "Orange County (FL) Library Group". The intention of the group is to gather those of us participating in Second Life. Second Life groups allow us to send notices about events related to OCLS, or that might be of interest to OCLS employees. At this time, this group is only available to employees.

If interested in joining, please IM Penny Theas in-world for an add to the group!

Additionally, an announcement was just made that the Alliance Library System (in cooperation with LearningTimes) will be holding a conference on June 10th, 2008 entitled "Stepping Into History: Exploring the Past through Virtual Worlds". For more information on this exciting opportunity for virtual immersion in a historical context, click on the link here.

ALA's Marginalia talks about all the different social networking tools used within ALA membership; everything from Nings, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs and Wikis. Second Life is also covered with details of the National Library Week events in sl which received 2800 visits. To visit the ALA site in sl go to http://slurl.com/secondlife/ALA%20Island/128/107/29/.
--Laurel