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Crista Lopes
The Hypergrid: An Architecture for a New Web: 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.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Crista 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 co-inventor of AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming), a programming technology featured in the MIT Technology Review (2001) as "one of the 10 emergent technologies that will change the world." 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 that can be played and decoded in small portable devices such as cell phones. Recently, she has been working on OpenSim and on applications of virtual worlds for real-world urban planning. 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.