User:Ditaylor/draft projects

Projects I am watching

1. Second Life: A Platform for Homeland Security The Synthetic Environments for Emergency Response Simulation (SEERS) project aims to provide cost effective mission rehearsal and virtual prototyping tools for the emergency response community. The project, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is part of the core research program of the Emergency Readiness and Response Research Center (ER3C) at Dartmouth College's Institute for Security Technology Studies.[1]

SLE-CERT (ISTS - Dartmouth College) Second Life Exercises for Community Emergency Response Teams (SLE-CERT) is a virtual town environment where CERT members can come together to exercise their training. SLE-CERT is part of the Synthetic Environments for Emergency Response Simulation (SEERS) project at the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College. This project was started by a member of Future Prototype who is a staff researcher at the institute. Future Prototype was hired specifically to build a replica of downtown Hanover, NH. SLURL[secondlife://Response/128/128] Future prototype[2]

2. Future Salon: The Future Salon Network was founded by the Acceleration Studies Foundation (ASF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that networks industry leaders, entrepreneurs and strategists seeking to better understand and manage accelerating technological change. ASF produces the annual Accelerating Change conference at Stanford University and is beginning a major foresight project called The Metaverse Roadmap: Pathways to the 3D Web. [3]

3. Math Island – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne (also offer tutorials and IBM-UIUC-Wharton) [4] [5]

4. BP Training Simulation [6] Tim Allen, Crompco Corp (FlipperPA Peregrine) built virtual gas station showing all the tanks and gas lines under the ashphalt. He says its much easier to grasp the station's workings this way than it is on paper. 'Great for training new hires and showing changing regulations to existing employees' Demonstration witnessed by Ali Andrews [7] : "The ashphalt suddenly disappears so the trainees can see all the pipes and valves below ground. The face of the pump does the same so they can see how it is constructed. Finally a simulated fire is started and the trainees have to follow proper procedures to address the situation.

5. Public Consultations using Democracy Island (New York Law School) Jerry Paffendorf, the project manager for Democracy Island, calls the work a "3-D wiki," ... Democracy Island is funded by a $50,000 grant from the International Center for Automated Information Research to the New York Law School's Institute for Information Law and Policy. Paffendorf says all kinds of groups have expressed an interest in Democracy Island and Second Life, including the World Bank, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, some nonprofits and at least one tech startup. The Department of Transportation is looking for new ways of hearing feedback on its projects and rule changes - like whether cell phones should be allowed on airplanes, a probable future project on the island. [8]

6. Chris Carella, Future Prototype is helping create 3-D elements of an interactive global warming game designed by LexIcon Systems of Sharon, Vt. The National Science Foundation is providing a small business innovation research grant.

7. The Metaverse Project. [9] Sandy Ressler from NIST has been working on 3D browsers such as VRML. He recently said of the new generation of technology 'The presentation was completely solid and reacted in exactly the way one would expect and there were no glitches whatsoever. Maybe this 3D stuff is actually going to work !' A 10-year roadmapping project started in May 2006, subtitled 'pathways to the 3D web' PODCASTS AVAILABLE Affected Economic Sectors Resources: Agriculture, Mining, Forestry, Fishing Products: Energy, Construction, Architecture, Manufacturing,Business and Consumer Products Services:Government, Law, <ilitary, Security, Health, Medicine, Education, Entertainment, Media, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Transportation, Travel, Tourism, Retail, Wholesale, NGOs, Nonprofit, International Development, Science, R&D IT: ITm Computer Science, Industrial and Process automation, Applications, Databases, Architecture, Hardware, Infrastructure, Languages, Protocols, Standards, Machine learning, AI, Natural Language processing, Virtualisation, Visual interface, networking, communication, sensors, haptics, robotics, fabrication, imaging.

8. NOAA Outreach [10] NOAA has taken the step of purchasing a “virtual island” •Simple as shipping an install CD to an interested party •Potential of reaching thousands of people •Ideas limited only by our imagination

9. Microsoft Video [11]

10. NMR in 3D and animation [12]

11. NASA's Spectroscopy Wiki [13] [14]

12. Enterprise Wikis and tagging for knowledge sharing (eg. Dogear by IBM) [15] Seedwiki: [16]

13. Link to Google: [17] SignIn: [18]

14. Tagging the planet and Google GeoLocation event: [19]

15. CiteUlike Watchlist: [20]

16. Google HomePage: [21]

17. LSL Wiki : [22]

18. NMC Campus : [23] Movie: http://www.nmc.org/sl/video/nmc-secondlife.mov [24]