nmc conversations

Live from Indianapolis, Alan, Larry and Rachel invite special guest Darrell Bailey, Executive Associate Dean, Informatics at IUPUI to have a conversation about the 2007 NMC Summer Conference which starts here tomorrow.

In this podcast, Darrell shares his excitement about bringing the conference to his campus. We chat about the keynote sessions, featured sessions, the Five Minutes of Fame, poster sessions, some special awards that are being given out, special activities like the opening reception, the visit to the Eiteljorg Museum, IUPUI campus tours (see the Lambda rail, the hub for Internet 2!), the Friday night jam session.

In our second podcast, we turn to virtual worlds– as many people know, NMC has been heavily involved these past 15 months with our NMC Campus in Second Life, but wanted to point out developments we are tracking in broader realm as part of of the NMC Virtual Worlds efforts.

Listen to this podcast as we discuss the Media Grid, Sun's Wonderland Project, Google's Burning Man Earth, Croquet, and the Torque Game Engine.

This is the kick off this new podcast series where Larry, Alan, and Rachel talk about the plans for this podcast series, why we are doing it, and outlining some things to look forward to in the future.

Today's conversations included:

• What nmc conversations is — the format, guests, upcoming topics.
• Why we want to do this — some of the history of the NMC’s focus on podcasts — its appearance in the 2006 Horizon Report, the Spring 2006 Online Conference on Personal Broadcasting last April with keynotes by Phil Long and Laura Blankenship
• NMC Web 2.0 (Our new web site) and how this fits in with some exciting new things coming up
See Also: http://web.nmc.org/conversations/2007/04/25/number-1/