From: scivw-request@hitl.washington.edu Subject: ADMIN: New Moderating Group Date: Mon, 09 Aug 93 16:33:24 -0700 *********************************** Sci.virtual-worlds Moderating Group ********************************** Hello-- First, we'd like to thank Bob Jacobson and Mark DeLoura for their excellent work as co-moderators on sci.virtual-worlds. We look forward to the emergence of sci.virtual-worlds.apps as an innovative virtual community. Next, we'd like to introduce ourselves. Toni Emerson - (diderot) Toni has been part of the Knowledge Base Project since July, 1991 and is now the HIT Lab's Research Librarian and information gatherer/caretaker of the HIT Lab's virtual library and ftp site. Among other things, she has a Master of Librarianship from the University of Washington...and also 2 Bachelor of Arts degrees, Spanish, B.A. and Drama, B.A. Member of ALA, ASIS, SLA, EFF, IEEE, and ACM. Toni is obsessed by the Internet...she is currently writing a comprehensive guide to Internet Resources in Virtual Reality which she hopes to make available as a html hypertext document (on Mosaic). Michael Almquist - Michael Almquist (aka. "squish") has been hanging out at the HITLab for over two years now after obtaining a BS in Computer Science. He is currently in charge of administrating equipment and resources and following his dreams. Dreaming includes (and not restricted to): 3D sound, speech generation and recognition, visualization/abstraction/navigation of data environments, useful agents, and the continual evolution of a VROS. Passions: skateboards, comic books, Da Vinci-isms, and living. Andrew MacDonald - Mr. MacDonald is the Coordinator of Software Development at the HITLab. He has spent the last three years designing and developing immersive virtual reality systems. He is an expert on real-time computing and high-performance virtual worlds interfaces. Daniel Pirone - (cocteau) Daniel Pirone has a BS in Computer & Information Science. He has been actively reasearching complex adaptive systems (and there relations to VR) for the past 3 years. He has actively manipulated the Knowledge Base Project since June, 1991. Hobbies - psychogeography, bandsaw follies, & zymugy. Jerry Prothero - Jerry is a Research Assistant at the HIT Lab, currently finishing his master's in Mechanical Engineering. His primary area of interests are the applications of virtual interfaces in the field of medicine and human factors. Aaron Pulkka - Mr. Pulkka earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, where he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering. After two years of volunteering in the HITL, Aaron is now a research assistant -- investigating alternative HCI hardware, multi-participant environments, and intelligent software agents. When time permits, Aaron enjoys playing/programming video games and Muds. Mark Takacs - Tak is a CSE undergraduate refugee from the midwest, moved to Seattle in September 1991 to pursue a master's at the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Lab. Currently in his second year, Mark is refining his thesis (Prolix: A text based participant system for VR) and spending more time than he can spare exploring the internet, programming Muds, and doing the Seattle club/dance scene. Mark's other scholarly (and not so scholarly) interests include simulation, visualization, graphical design, multi-user systems, entertainment applications, short fiction, cinema, beach volleyball, and dancing. Squish, Toni and Aaron will perform the actual moderating tasks--posting, editing and upkeep of the sci.virtual-world's archives. The rest of the moderating group will act as consultants: quality management, information gathering, and writing special updates on various aspects of the field. To contact the moderating goup, please email us at scivw-request@hitl.washington.edu. Submissions should be sent to scivw@hitl.washington.edu. Posting guidelines: We will not edit portions of posts to correct spelling/grammar (although we may adjust subject lines for clarity). We WILL edit the comment portion of followups to previous postings, if it is too long or not pertinent to the reply. Oversized signatures may be truncated (4 lines or less is a good guideline). Although we expect that most submissions will be accepted, we do have certain guidelines by which we will reject submissions if necessary. We will not post: -articles that are not related to virtual reality in any way -flames Flame definition-- posting that directly attacks person and/or idea, item, etc. without any objective, analytical content. -comments directed to the moderators (unless of general interest) When receiving multiple submissions saying relatively the same thing, we will only post one to save bandwidth. ANYTIME we don't post a submission, we will send a message to the author to indicate why it isn't being posted. We will post the FAQ, as soon as it's updated, at regular intervals. There will actually be two versions of the FAQ, an abridged (less than 10 pages) and a huge one (eventually html hypertext document). -=((-----------------))=- We look forward to reading everyone's postings and tracking the evolution of this emerging technology. Please feel free to contact us with suggestions and comments at scivw-request@hitl.washington.edu. ========================================