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Congratulations to Sushil for getting us the best paper award at MSR'09! This is absolutely wonderful.

Lots of other wonderful things have happened over the past year, but I have been lacking behind in posting them here. Joel also got a short paper accepted at MSR. Amy got a paper accepted at FAVe, one of the new conferences about Virtual Worlds. Sara and Yasser presented their paper back in … continue reading

I made a little tool that reads USGS DEM files and produces terrains for OpenSim. Here is a picture of one of those terrains, taken from Ithaca, NY. And here is the tool.

We just got the news that our paper entitled "A Theory of Aspects" was accepted for the technical track at ooPSLA'08! This paper resulted from a close collaboration between Pierre Baldi and myself, through work done mostly by Erik Linstead, with Sushil doing a piece of the validation. The work is being supported by a grant from the NSF. Here's a bit of history behind this paper. … continue reading

11 months into the exploration of the virtual world Second Life, I am now diving head-first into experiments with OpenSim. My attraction to SL in particular, in contrast to my relative indifference to MMORPGs in general, was its potential to become more like the web; to mature and become a platform for business and life in general. I wanted to run my own 3D content on my … continue reading

We've been using XWiki for this site almost since XWiki came out, 3 years ago. Sushil decided it was the best wiki engine for us. Recently, when doing the CalSWIM wiki, Yasser came to the same conclusion. Yasser has been setting that wiki up since October, and has done wonderful extensions to it. So wonderful that the … continue reading

This should have been posted before, but I haven't had time. Our paper describing the SkyTran simulation experiment in Second Life was accepted at SIMUTools. This work involves, besides myself, Lorraine Kan, Anton Popov, and Ricardo Morla.

The work has received some press coverage, starting with a great piece by Colin Stewart at … continue reading

We are happy to announce that the first release of CodeGenie is available for download. We have updated the CodeGenie website with a working jar, sample examples to work with, getting started guide and a more detailed manual. Currently CodeGenie works with Eclipse Europa release, and it has been tested on Windows and Mac.

We are pleased to announce that CodeGenie won the first prize in the Student Research Competition at OOPSLA'07. This puts Sushil, Joel and Otavio in the finals for the ACM Student Research Competition. We are thrilled!

We (sushil, joel, otavio and crista) are at ooPSLA 07 in Montreal. Our poster on CodeGenie was selected as a poster for the student research competition and will be on display in the Coffee Break room till the conference ends. We're also happy to talk about or demo the tool, discuss anything PSLA and beyond! Please say hello if you see us..

I got another NSF grant, this one under the program Software Development for CyberInfrastructures. The official note is here. My co-PIs are Stanley Grant, Michael Goodrich, and Robero Tamassia from Brown. We are going to develop a trust … continue reading