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[06/01/08] Duke Receives NSF Award to Support Cobalt Application Development
Duke University computer scientist, Julian Lombardi, has received an NSF Small Grant for Exploratory Research in the amount of $200K to advance "An Open and Scalable Croquet-Based Collaboration Infrastructure for Support of 3-D Simulation-Based Research and Education.
[05/15/08] Qwaq Makes Available C3X and C3Z File Format Specification
Qwaq, Inc has made available in the open source a compact XML based file format specification for the storage and reclamation of persistent worlds in Croquet.
[03/05/08] Cobalt application made available for community-based development
Cobalt is an emerging open source and multi-platform metaverse browser and toolkit application being built using the open source Croquet SDK. A pre-alpha build of the Cobalt application is being made freely available to the emerging virtual worlds community by Duke University and its partners. The development partners which include The University of Minnesota, The University of British Columbia, Duke University, Wake Forest University, North Carolina State University, and The University of North Carolina among others. The intent of this effort is to foster a viable broad-based community software development effort leading to secure and open source virtual world technologies supporting the needs of education and research. More.
[01/12/08] Immersive Education Initiative Selects Croquet as Next Generation Immersive Education Platform
On January 12th, it was announced at The Boston Media-Grid Summit that the Immersive Education Initiative has selected Croquet as one of three official "next generation" immersive education platforms. The Immersive Education Initiative is an international collaboration of universities, colleges, research institutes, consortia companies, and foundations that are working together to define and develop open standards, best practices, platforms, and communities of support for virtual reality and game-based learning and training systems. The Initiative will now direct both funding and programming resources towards the development and deployment of open source Croquet technologies and open source Croquet-based educational applications. Selection criteria for this important honor included the following: 1) support for the Windows and Macintosh operating systems; 2) availability as open source code; 3) vendor-neutral client and server architectures (no vendor lock-in); 4) stable and reliable runtime implementations; 5) integrated text chat and voice chat; 6) high resolution graphics; 7) multi-user support for collaboration; 8) highly customizable avatars that support high resolution graphics and body animation (gestures); and 9) support for user-created content. The other two immersive education platforms selected were Sun's open source Project Wonderland client and the now open source Second Life client.
[12/10/07] Duke Receives $100,000 Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Duke University a $100,000 prize for leadership and development work to advance Croquet in the open source. The prize was one of ten presented as part of the second annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC) which are given each year to not‐for‐profit organizations for leadership in the collaborative development of open source software tools with application to scholarship in the arts and humanities.
The award was presented at the Fall Task Force meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information in Washington D.C. by Sir Timothy Berners‐Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and the inventor of the World Wide Web. Duke’s MATC award was one of three that received the top prize of $100,000. The other award winners received prizes of $50,000 each. Award recipients were selected by the MATC Award Committee, which included Berners‐Lee, Mitchell Baker (CEO, Mozilla Corporation), John Seely Brown (former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp.), Vinton G. Cerf (Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, Inc.), John Gage (Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc.), and Tim O’Reilly (Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media).
[11/27/07] Qwaq Secures $7 Million in Funding From Alloy Ventures and Storm Ventures
Qwaq, Inc., the creators of Croquet-based virtual spaces for the enterprise, today announced it has secured $7 million in its first institutional round, co-led by Alloy Ventures and Storm Ventures with participation from previous investors. The funds will be used to expand Qwaq’s sales, marketing, product and engineering teams and initiatives. Ammar Hanafi, general partner at Alloy Ventures, and Alex Mendez, founding general partner at Storm Ventures, will join Qwaq’s board of directors. [More].
[09/20/07] Qwaq, Intel Collaborate on Enhanced Virtual Workspace Product
Miramar, a 3-D information space technology originally developed by Intel Corporation’s research labs, will be brought to market by Qwaq Inc., the secure virtual workspace company. More.
[04/10/07] UBC Joins Croquet Consortium
DURHAM, N.C. - April 10, 2007 - University of British Columbia Joins the Croquet Consortium
The University of British Columbia (UBC), home of the recently established Arts Metaverse project, has joined the Croquet Consortium. As an institutional member, UBC will help to set the direction for the continued development of the open source Croquet platform. Arts Metaverse is a 3D virtual environment being developed at UBC that is based on the open source Croquet platform. It is being developed under the guidance of Tim Wang and Ulrich Rauch in the The University of British Columbia's Arts Instructional Suppport & Information Technology unit. Arts Metaverse is intended to provide a way for scholars, teachers, students, and interested individuals to create their own virtual spaces in which they can interact and collaborate with others. Croquet was chosen as the foundational technology for the Arts Metaverse project because it provides: 1) A structured peer-to-peer Croquet network that is much more secure than a server based large scale metaverses, 2) A portal technology that allows application sharing between different operating systems. So that you can play a PC game with your Mac friends, 3) Conferencing and other communication tools without using server technology, 4) The ability for users to freely define the space being created, providing “land owners” (the academics) complete customizable controls of the environment. (e.g. not just define the gravitational force in the land), and 5) The ability to back up the contents published using Croquet, take worlds on line and off line, and provide mechanisms to ensure copyright compliance.
[03/27/07] Croquet SDK 1.0 Released
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:
Nonprofit ‘Croquet Consortium’ Releases Open-Source Software Toolkit to Promote Collaborative 3-D Virtual Environments
DURHAM, N.C. - March 27, 2007 - A nonprofit consortium of academic and corporate partners today announced the release of a free software toolkit for developers to use in creating 3-D "virtual environments."
"We’re seeking to enable the creation of a rich series of interconnected 'Croquet worlds' where people can engage in productive collaborative interactions in support of learning and commerce – worlds that can be created, maintained and continually modified without the constraints of proprietary computer code," said Julian Lombardi, assistant vice president of Duke’s Office of Information Technology.
The Croquet Consortium’s new "3-D Virtual Environments Software Developer’s Kit" (Croquet SDK 1.0) will promote collaboration among far-flung research teams working on everything from cancer cells to hurricanes, as well as active learning among students and their instructors. These networked 3-D teams from research, education and industry will be able to work together across a variety of computer platforms and devices, from laptops to cell phones.
"This will change the way people think about software and computation, from today’s device-oriented perspective to a perspective of computation as a persistent, pervasive service," said Patrick Scaglia, vice president and chief technology officer of HP's Imaging and Printing Group.
Croquet 3-D virtual environments can support live discussion among worldwide collaborators who come together in "real time" within a 3-D virtual space. They may view, manipulate and revise documents, dynamic visualizations or large amounts of data from sources such as laboratories or supercomputing centers.
Added Greg Nuyens, chief executive officer of Qwaq Inc., "we have found Croquet to be a compelling platform technology for developing very large scale, richly featured and interlinked virtual environments. With the release of the Croquet SDK, we are excited about the new possibilities for using Croquet in our products and see benefits for developers everywhere."
For example, public health officials and epidemiologists across a country could use the Croquet environment to track the spread of an infectious disease by sharing a dynamically changing display of infection data. Similarly, architects and engineers could collaborate on a building design, or chemists and biologists could prototype different chemical compositions for a new drug.
The free kit provides developers with a flexible tool to create virtual spaces with built-in networked telephony and a "late-binding object-oriented" programming language that allows multiple users to jointly create, animate or modify 3-D objects and dynamic simulations. Developers can also import and share resources, such as 2-D web applications or multimedia content, from their own systems. Working together across multiple locations, they can change simulations while they are running and work together to create new applications – all in "real time."
The kit can be downloaded from the consortium’s website, http://croquetconsortium.org.
The newly formed Croquet Consortium is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing and promoting the widespread adoption of open-source, Croquet technologies for research, education and industry. Its institutional supporters include Duke University, the University of Minnesota, HP, 3dSolve Inc. and Qwaq Inc. Croquet was initiated by Alan Kay – winner of the Kyoto Prize and the Turing and Draper awards – working in collaboration with David A. Smith, Andreas Raab, David P. Reed, Mark P. McCahill and Lombardi.
[03/27/07] Croquet Consortium Launched
In a press release today, HP, Duke University, The University of Minnesota, and Qwaq, Inc. have jointly announced the formation of The Croquet Consortium, Inc., a 501(3)c non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting the continued development and widespread adoption of open source Croquet technologies for use in education, research, and industry. The launch of The Croquet Consortium coincides with the Consortium’s release the open source Croquet Software Developer’s Kit 1.0 -- as free software under the Croquet Open Source License.
The Croquet Consortium provides an organizational base for the Croquet community of developers and users. Open to institutional and individual members, the Consortium offers an avenue for academic, corporate, and individual members ensure the long-term viability of the community by federating their Croquet software development projects mobilizing distributed resources on their behalf.
With the launch of The Croquet Consortium, Inc., the development and adoption of scalable Croquet-based applications for use in education, research and industry enters a new, expanded, and highly-inclusive phase of multi-institutional collaboration. The Consortium 1) establishes a legal home for the Croquet community, 2) coordinates the management, definition and release of core interoperable Croquet architecture, 3) provides a clearinghouse for the collection and distribution of freely available Croquet open source software artifacts, 4) supplies a management structure for the solicitation and mobilization of distributed development resources, and 5) creates a focal point for outreach activities, including the Consortium Website, Annual Conference, training workshops, fellowships, and sponsored projects.
[03/13/07] Qwaq Unveils Virtual Spaces Software For Secure Enterprise Collaboration
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Company releases Qwaq Forums, World’s First Virtual Workspace Application
PALO ALTO, CALIF. – March 13, 2007 – Qwaq, Inc., the creators of virtual spaces for the enterprise, today announced Qwaq Forums, the world’s only secure virtual workspace application. Qwaq Forums significantly enhances the productivity of distributed teams by bringing critical resources together in a virtual place, as if they were in an actual physical location, and providing them with all the tools and collaboration capabilities they need to work more effectively together. With Qwaq Forums, users can work together to establish workflow steps, create or review information in software applications, and evaluate designs in 2D and 3D, all while discussing topics using built-in text and voice chat. Further enhancing employee productivity, Qwaq Forums virtual workspaces are always available so users can return to a forum at another time to access and view changes that have occurred since they last visited the virtual space.
“Qwaq Forums is the first of several applications we’re building to provide enterprises with virtual spaces for real work,” said Greg Nuyens, Qwaq’s CEO. “We’ve received a fantastic response to the Qwaq Forums deployments in the energy market and by distributed industrial research teams. The virtual workspaces are allowing critical resources to collaborate more frequently and achieve better results.”
Qwaq Forums is easy to set up, use and navigate. Users can “drag-and-drop” content into a workspace from desktop and laptop computers, corporate servers or other locations. Information can be created, edited or reviewed using Microsoft Office and other productivity tools; corporate applications such as SAP, Oracle, or Salesforce.com; design and 3D modeling tools; web browsers; or Enterprise 2.0 applications. Qwaq Forums provides GUI controls that enable users to access remote applications and portals to other environments.
Unlike traditional collaboration tools, which only work while a session is in progress, Qwaq Forums is persistent, meaning it is accessible to authorized users all the time. Users can work with others in real time; enter Qwaq Forums any other time and see changes made by other team members since their last visit; and create or modify content, and hand off work to each other as needed.
“Our industrial research affiliates are scattered around the globe and Qwaq Forums enables us to easily bring these key players together in a virtual workspace,” said Charles House, executive director of Media X at Stanford University. “Qwaq Forums allows us to discuss and collaborate on critical research themes and make better decisions by reviewing intermediate research results more frequently.”
Qwaq Forums uses the Croquet open source software development environment, which enables the creation and deployment of large-scale, distributed multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses. The Croquet architecture, supported by the Croquet Consortium, provides synchronous communication, collaboration, resource sharing and computation among large numbers of users on multiple platforms and devices.
Qwaq’s founders, executives and advisory board members are all seasoned technology industry veterans and thought leaders with extensive experience working together to build successful companies. The Qwaq management team and key technical staff all share a deep background in developing and bringing to market highly scalable, distributed systems and have been involved in key industry developments such as graphical user interfaces, persistent networked objects, web services and Croquet. Qwaq’s team includes founder and CTO, David Smith, a 3D pioneer and chief system architect of the Croquet Project; Nuyens, former CEO of instant802, chief technologist at Inktomi and Xerox PARC alumni; and Vice President of Enterprise, Remy Malan, former marketing vice president at AtWeb and director at Sun Microsystems. Qwaq Advisory board members include Alan Kay, founder of the Croquet Project, winner of the Kyoto Prize, Turing and Draper Awards, and one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces; and Internet pioneer and Croquet architect David Reed.
Qwaq Forums is available immediately as a hosted service. A version of Qwaq Forums that can be deployed in the enterprise, behind the corporate firewall, will be available in the second quarter of 2007. For more information, visit www.qwaq.com
About Qwaq, Inc. Qwaq, Inc. is creating virtual spaces for the enterprise that enable collaboration in ways that weren’t possible before. Qwaq Forums, the company’s first product, is a secure virtual workspace application that significantly increases the productivity of distributed teams by bringing critical resources together in virtual places, as if they were in an actual physical location. A highly interactive and persistent environment, Qwaq Forums enables users to work, collaborate with others, and identify and solve problems.
[11/09/06] Croquet Featured at NMC 2006 Regional Conference
Croquet technology is being prominently featured at The 2006 NMC Regional Conference at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas November 8-10, 2006. Croquet was discussed in a track entitled "Bringing Virtual 3-D Worlds to Reality" devoted to an exploration of emerging practices in the use of 3D collaborative spaces, including experimental worlds created with new tools like Croquet, commercial metaverses like Second Life and World of Warcraft, as well as the range of supporting concepts and assessment strategies.
[11/08/06] 3Dsolve Inc. Reveals Details on Advanced Croquet-based Data Visualization Tool
3Dsolve Inc. has disclosed new information on Operational Views in 3D (OV3D), an innovative Croquet-based 3D visual simulation tool that enables the US Army to create scenarios describing communications networks in a modern battlespace environment. More.
[09/20/06] Squeak Running on the OLPC
Click here and here for photos of Squeak running on the One Laptop Per Child computer. Will Croquet be next?
[04/18/06] Croquet SDK 1.0 Beta Released!
The Croquet Software Developers’ Kit 1.0 Beta has been released. This represents the first complete public release of the core Croquet technology. Croquet is a new open source software platform for creating deeply collaborative multi-user online applications. It features a network architecture that supports communication, collaboration, resource sharing, and synchronous computation among multiple users. Using Croquet, software developers can create powerful and highly collaborative multi-user 2D and 3D applications and simulations. Available for download here.
[04/09/06] Croquet Technology Featured at NACS's CONTEXT 2006
Julian Lombardi demonstrated Croquet as the ‘Digital Classroom of Tomorrow” as an invited speaker at the National Association of College Stores annual meeting in Reno, Nevada on April 8th, 2006.
[04/06/06] Croquet Presented at Southern Graphics Conference
University of Wisconsin Art Professor Michael Connors demonstrated Croquet as the potential future of the artistic critique at the Southern Graphics Council Conference on printmaking. The demonstration was based on Prof. Connors' classroom use of Croquet for critical discourse and ePortfolios.
[04/03/06] Campus Croquet Users Win award at UW-Madison Showcase
A group of administrative staff at the University of Wisconsin - Madison used Croquet to exhibit their group's work at a campus-wide exhibition of new ideas and best practices called Showcase. In their spare time over a few few weeks, this group built their own 3D multimedia wiki in this first-ever sustained end-user Croquet activity. The group was rewarded with a "Most Interactive" award presented by the Chancellor.
[02/20/06] Croquet presented as part of the University of Maryland University College's "Future Watch" Series
Julian Lombardi presented an invited lecture/demonstration of Croquet entitled “The Next Innovative Open-Source Online Learning and Teaching Technology” as part of UMUC’s Future Watch series on February 20th, 2006.
[02/03/06] Croquet featured at ELI's 2006 Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative featured a Croquet presentation by Julian Lombardi. The audience for this presentation included technologists and educators involved in planning, designing, and/or supporting teaching with technology who are drawn from the fields of information technology, instructional support, learners and faculty, librarians, and directors of learning centers. The presentation to a packed house took place in San Diego, California on January 30th, 2006.
[01/27/06] Croqueteers to present multiple papers at C5 in Berkeley, California
Alan Kay, David A. Smith, Andreas Raab, Julian Lombardi, Howard Stearns, and Mark P. McCahill as well as other key contributors to the Croquet Project will present papers on Croquet at The International Conference on Creating, Connecting, and Collaborating Through Computing in Berkeley, California on January 26th and 27th, 2006. The conference provides an international forum for technical discussion among researchers, developers and users of object-oriented computing (especially, Smalltalk, Squeak and Croquet), collaboration technologies and learning environments. This year, the conference features a series of special tracks on the future directions of Croquet.
[01/27/06] Croquet Lecture at Stanford
Lecture on the social and academic implications of Croquet technologies presented at the Standford Humanities Center Julian Lombardi presented a lecture on Croquet as part of the Stanford Humanities Center lecture series on New Directions in Humanities Research on January 25th, 2006.
[11/15/05] Croquet Plenary to be Given at the 11th SLOAN-C International Conference
Julian Lombardi and David P. Reed will co-present a plenary presentation at The 11th SLOAN-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks in Orlando, Florida on November 17th. The theme of the conference is on the Power of Online Learning: Mobilizing to Expand Community.
[10/13/05] Croquet featured at Accelerate Madison business and technology event in Madison, Wisconsin
Julian Lombardi and Preston Austin presented a full demonstration of the “Jasmine” release of Croquet at Accelerate Madison’s premier event for business and technology on October 13th.
Video of the event.
[07/05/05] Croquet track at OOPSLA 2005
Croquet to be featured prominently at OOPSLA 2005 in San Diego from October 16-20. On Monday the 17th, there will be a full-day Croquet workshop presented by the Croquet Architects. Also, David Reed will give a keynote talk describing TeaTime. OOPSLA promises to be a great event for developers, users, and anyone else interested in Croquet!
[02/18/05] Croquet to be Featured at NLII's 2005 Focus Session on Emerging Practices and Learning Technologies
The National Learning Infrastructure Initiative's 2005 Spring Focus session on Emerging Practices and Learning Technologies (co-hosted by Rice University) will feature a Croquet presentation and discussion with Julian Lombardi and Mark P. McCahill. The Spring Focus Session explores new technologies on campus and the students driving these changes. Using learner-centered principles as a guide, the session will be used to evaluate emerging learning practices enabled by new technologies as well as alternative pedagogies. The audience for this session will include those involved in planning, designing, and/or supporting teaching with technology who are drawn from the fields of information technology, instructional support, learners and faculty, librarians, directors of learning centers. The session will take place at Rice University on March 8th-9th in Houston Texas.
[02/17/05] Japan's NICT Signs Croquet Development Contract with University of Wisconsin
In December 2004, The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NiCT) of Japan signed a $200,000 contract with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop new educational uses for Croquet. "Private developers and now government agencies are beginning to take note of Croquet's possibilities," says Julian Lombardi, director of the project at the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) at UW-Madison. "Our Japanese colleagues are interested in working with Alan Kay and our team to develop new ways for all of us to interact with network-deliverable information." Alan Kay presently serves as Senior Scientist at UW's Division of Information Technology.
[02/14/05] 3DSolve begins developing commercial software using Croquet.
3Dsolve, a North Carolina-based technology company, has begun developing commercial educational software using Croquet. Like 3Dsolve, NICT sees Croquet as a communications platform and service, available anytime, anywhere, from any device. Croquet is designed to run on everything, from a PDA through a set-top box. “What we’re doing here is very early work, less research and more development – bringing over our work into Croquet,” said Frank Boosman, chief marketing officer for 3Dsolve. “It’s obvious that Croquet is an excellent vehicle for e-learning, and lends itself extremely well to simulation learning.” Observers say that Croquet will change the way people think about software and computation, from today's device-oriented perspective to a perspective of computation as a persistent, pervasive service.
[02/18/05] Mark P. McCahill and Julian Lombardi to present at CNI 2005
Mark P. McCahill and Julian Lombardi have been invited to do a plenary presentation on Croquet at the Coalition for Networked Information's (CNI) Spring Task Force Meeting on April 4th and 5th, 2005 in Washington D.C.. The title of the plenary is: Croquet: Croquet - A Collaborative 3D Virtual Learning Environment. Twice each year, representatives from the member organizations of the Coaltion for Networked Information gather for Task Force Meetings. The meetings are designed to explore new technologies, content and applications; to further collaboration; to analyze technology policy issues; and to catalyze the development and deployment of new projects. The meetings also seek to address s state-of-the-art developments and issues of interest to the membership, as outlined in each year's Program Plan. Interoperability and standards, developing and managing networked information content, and innovations in teaching and learning are topics that consistently engage CNI members' interests
[01/28/05] Croqueteers invited to present multiple papers at C5 in Kyoto, Japan
Alan Kay, David A. Smith, Andreas Raab, Julian Lombardi, and Mark P. McCahill as well as other key contributors to the Croquet Project will present papers on Croquet at The International Conference on Creating, Connecting, and Collaborating Through Computing in Kyoto, Japan on January 28th and 29th, 2005. The conference provides an international forum for technical discussion among researchers, developers and users of object-oriented computing (especially, Smalltalk, Squeak and Croquet), collaboration technologies and learning environments.
[01/22/05] Julian Lombardi and Mark P. McCahill present at NLII 2005
Julian Lombardi and Mark P. McCahill, have been invited to present a pre-conference workshop on Croquet at the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative's (NLII) Annual Meeting on January 23rd, 2005 in New Oleans, LA. Julian and Mark will discuss the application of Croquet as a learning infrastructure.
[10/23/04] Alan Kay to Deliver ACM Turing Lecture at OOPSLA 2004
Alan Kay will present the ACM Turing Lecture at OOPSLA (Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications) 2004, convening October 24 through 28 in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. OOPSLA is the premier gathering of professionals from industry and academia—practitioners, researchers, students, and educators—all sharing their experiences with object technology and its offshoots. Each year, ACM bestows its most prestigious technical award on an individual who has made major and lasting contributions to computer technology. Alan's work in object-oriented programming and personal computing are legendary, making it especially fitting that he give the Turing Lecture at OOPSLA.
[10/11/04] Croquet 0.1 "Jasmine" Developers' Release Made Available for Public Download
The highly anticipated "Jasmine" developers' release of Croquet (Croquet v0.1) is now available for download. This release is intended for experienced and self-sufficient programmers to get their feet wet playing with Croquet. Though most of the system is functional, some key elements are not quite ready and will begin to appear over the next few weeks. This release is really to get you acquainted with the system, deconstruct the examples, and try your own hand at making some things. It is important to note that Croquet is built on top of the Squeak system and includes a complete development environment. In other words, everything you need to begin developing in Croquet is included as part of this release.
[6/11/04] HP Features Croquet
Hewlett-Packard to Feature Croquet at The Educause Center for Applied Research's (ECAR) Summer Symposium for Higher Education IT Executives. Julian Lombardi and Mark P. McCahill, have been invited by Hewlett-Packard to present Croquet as HP's featured higher-education technology innovation at The Educause Center for Applied Research's (ECAR) Summer Symposium for Higher Education IT Executives sponsored by Hewlett-Packard on July 7-9, 2004 in Sedona, AZ. Julian and Mark will discuss the future of the Internet, planetary-scale network applications, and the application of Croquet as a social computing platform and tool set for use in higher education.
[6/11/04] Alan Kay is awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize
Alan Kay has been named a 2004 Kyoto Prize Laureate, the Inamori Foundation announced today. Kay visualized the personal computer and laptop computer in the 1960s, and his work helped make them what they are today, according to a news release from the foundation. The 2004 Kyoto Prize is an international award to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind. The Prize is presented annually in each of the following three categories: Advanced Technology, Basic Sciences, and Arts and Philosophy.
[5/20/04] Alan Kay to present Croquet at the HP/CITRIS Workshop on Planetary Scale Applications
Just as the turn of the 20th century ushered in a new era in physics with the discovery of quantum mechanics, the turn of the millenium is ushering in a new era of information technology with the emergence of wide area collaborative computing platforms. One such platform, Croquet, will be demonstrated by Dr. Alan Kay on Wednesday, May 26th from 10:45 AM to 12:15 PM in the Wozniak Lounge, 4th Floor, Soda Hall, UC-Berkeley.
[5/07/04] Croquet Track Planned for SqueakFest '04
There will be a special Croquet track at SqueakFest '04 on the summer shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago. SqueakFest '04 will be Thursday, August 5, to Saturday, August 7 (two full-day sessions on Thursday and Friday, and a morning session on Saturday). There is no registration fee.
[5/01/04] Croqueteers to Present at Distance Education Conference
Julian Lombardi and Mark P. McCahill will be presenting a demonstration of Croquet technologies at the 20th annual Distance Teaching and Learning Symposium on August 6th in Madison Wisconsin. This conference will bring together the very best presentations that emphasize how distance education is evolving in new directions and formats. This year's program will feature blending classroom and online instruction, building new collaborative environments, managing large programs in cost effective ways, and using dynamic media to enhance and engage learners of all ages.
[4/22/04] Croquet to be Presented at WiLSWorld 2004
Julian Lombardi will present a demonstration of Croquet technologies entitled "Enabling Social Dimensions of Learning Through Persistent and Extensible Online Virtual Environments" at the Wisconsin Library Services annual conference being held in Madison on July 27th and 28th. WiLSWorld tends to attract primarily academic librarians from Wisconsin. Wisconsin Library Services is a consortium of Wisconsin libraries with over 500 member libraries.
[4/20/04] Alan Kay Wins 'Nobel Prize' of Computing
Alan has been awarded the 2003 Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Alan will receive the "Nobel Prize of Computing" in a ceremony in June, as well as a cash award, for his pioneering work on Smalltalk, the first complete dynamic object-oriented programming (OOP) language. Smalltalk is credited as the model for C++ and Java.
[3/15/04] Alan Kay Wins 'Academy Award' of Engineering
Alan Kay has been named one of the winners of the 2004 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Charles Stark Draper Prize (which some call the "Academy Awards of engineering") for the invention of the networked personal computer. More
[1/01/04] Croqueteers to Present Multiple Papers at C5 in Kyoto, Japan
David A. Smith, Andreas Raab, Julian Lombardi, and Mark P. McCahill will be presenting a series of three papers on Croquet at The International Conference on Creating, Connecting, and Collaborating Through Computing in Kyoto Keihanna, Japan on January 29th and 30th, 2004. The conference provides an international forum for technical discussion among researchers, developers and users of object-oriented computing (especially, Smalltalk, Squeak and Croquet), collaboration technologies and learning environments.
[1/01/04] Croquet Architects David A. Smith and Andreas Raab to Present Croquet Tutorial at C5 in Kyoto, Japan
A Croquet tutorial session will be held during The International Conference on Creating, Connecting, and Collaborating Through Computing (C5) in Kyoto Keihanna, Japan on January 30th, 2004.
