From: willdye@typhoon.unl.edu () Subject: Re: Where are the Women? Date: 30 Mar 91 20:29:06 GMT Message-ID: Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln erich@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Erich Stefan Boleyn) writes: >>In article willdye@typhoon.unl.edu writes: >>right brain and left brain connections wired differently then men. It I really like Erich's article, but I want to make clear it wasn't me that said the connections are wired differently. Me, I'm comp sci, Biology is down the hall. willdye From cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu Sat Mar 30 16:03:02 1991 Received: from ames.arc.nasa.gov by milton.u.washington.edu (5.61/UW-NDC Revision: 2.1 ) id AA27328; Sat, 30 Mar 91 16:03:00 -0800 Received: from milton.u.washington.edu by ames.arc.nasa.gov (5.64/1.2); Sat, 30 Mar 91 16:02:53 -0800 Received: by milton.u.washington.edu (5.61/UW-NDC Revision: 2.1 ) id AA27258; Sat, 30 Mar 91 16:02:47 -0800 Path: cyberoid From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) Subject: svw1 Message-Id: <1991Mar31.000243.27201@milton.u.washington.edu> Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab, Univ. of Wash., Seattle Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1991 00:02:43 GMT Apparently-To: sci-virtual-worlds@ames.arc.nasa.gov Status: R >From richard@sparc1.ist.ucf.edu Tue Mar 26 12:03:04 1991 Received: from [132.170.190.17] by milton.u.washington.edu (5.61/UW-NDC Revision: 2.1 ) id AA29644; Tue, 26 Mar 91 12:02:25 -0800 Received: by sparc1.ist.ucf.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13118; Tue, 26 Mar 91 13:57:41 EST Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 13:57:41 EST From: richard@sparc1.ist.ucf.edu (Richard Dunn-Roberts) Message-Id: <9103261857.AA13118@sparc1.ist.ucf.edu> To: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu Status: RO Bob, Please post to sci.virtual-worlds. Thanks. Richard ------------ cut here before posting ----------- Recently I've seen several postings to sci.virtual-worlds that can be semantically reduced to "my computer is bigger than your computer". Maybe the posters could be convinced that a much more interesting topic might be how to get those super fast or massively parallel puppies talking to each other. It is a fact that computer architectures are improving both in terms of speed and parallelism, especially if we include network distribution of computational resources under the heading of parallelism. If we expend energy now in exploring how to distribute virtual world computational requirements over a possibly heterogenous network of physical resources, when we finally get desktop supercomputers (maybe built on parallel architectures, including processors specialized for communication and processors specialized for computation), I'll be able to visit your virtual world from across the country, whether you are running on a Cray, a Connection Machine, or a network of Sparc Stations and Irises. Let's not forget that there is a lot of work that remains to be done before we step into the holodeck for an afternoon in Sherlock's England. Cooperation in defining the problems and then solving them will get us there all that much quicker. What I'd like to see posted here a discussion of the interesting problems associated with virtual world design and directions to be explored in solving them. Toward that end, I'd like to hear peoples' thoughts on physical and geometric modeling, networking, alternative sensory mappings (deliberate synesthesia), k-12 education in virtual worlds, and virtual art. More topics will probably suggest themselves soon. Richard Dunn-Roberts richard@ist.ucf.edu Visual Systems Lab Institute for Simulation and Training 12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300 Orlando, FL 32826 (407) 658 5516 --