Paul Byrne

I will provide an overview of Project Wonderland architecture focusing on the standards we use and areas where we think other standards could be developed. I'll talk about the challenges we for see in interoperability and present a couple of ideas for discussion. You will get a sneak preview of our upcoming Wonderland version v0.5 release

Speaker Bio:
 
Title: Wonderland architect, Sun Microsystems Laboratories.
Quote: "We copy the physical world where it makes sense. But we will break the physical metaphors where we think we can do better."
Education: Computer science degree from the University of York.
Background: Joined Sun 13 years ago. Started as a system engineer, Java evangelist, and technical ambassador. Moved into graphics engineering and worked on Java 3-D tools, a distributed graphics system, and the Looking Glass desktop.