LUCI Blog

Congratulations to Professor Paul Dourish on having a book chapter published:

Dourish, P. 2008. Play, Flex, and Slop: Sociality and Intentionality. In Erickson and McDonald (eds), HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works that have Influenced the HCI Community, 305-308. MIT Press.

Congratulations to Informatics graduate student Silvia Lindtner and Informatics undergraduate student Gabriela Marcu for winning the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. Both women competed with a huge number of outstanding candidates to win these prestigious award. They will be traveling to Google headquarters in Mountain View in a couple of weeks to spend time with Googlers and fellow scholarship winners.

Congratulations to graduate student Eric Kabisch on being invited to present at the 2008 Mobile City Workshops in Rotterdam. Click on the icon on the right for more info about the conference

Congratulations to Professor Don Patterson for receiving the 2008 ICS Dean's award for teaching:

"The awardees for the 2008 ICS Dean's Awards for Faculty are as follows:

1. Dean's Award for Research: Rina Dechter.
2. Dean's Mid-Career Award for Research: Max Welling.
3. Dean's Award for Undergraduate Teaching: Don Patterson.
4. Dean's Award for Graduate Student Mentoring: Nik Dutt.
5. Dean's Award for Service: David van Dyk."

LUCI website V1.8 is live.

This release includes the first tech reports for the LUCI lab. See here.

This release also adds a link to a code samples library. This will hopefully serve as a resource for people to stash bits of code that are helpful for building new projects. The first one is a java web server. See here.

As always feedback and bug reports are welcome. If you have any email Don (djp3@ics.uci.edu)

Congratulations to graduate student Eric Kabisch on being invited to present DataScape at O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies (ETech) conference in San Diego. Click on the icon on the right for more info about the conference

"With astonishing rapidity, virtual worlds have moved from a niche market to an important modality of culture. This means, in theory, that virtual worlds can be amenable to research drawing upon methods from across the social sciences and humanities, and beyond. This conference brings together scholars, developers, and residents to ask after the character of emerging cultures of a range of virtual worlds. Of key interest is building conversations concerning the theoretical and methodological frameworks that need to be developed and transformed to understand the cultures of virtual worlds. Research in virtual worlds is at a preliminary stage where much of the most important work involves crafting new kinds of questions rather than providing definitive answers. "

This is a small workshop/conference that will be held at CALIT2. Click on the image on the left for the conference poster and more info. Notably sponsored by Intel. Think about that for a little while.....

The LUCI lab is excited to welcome Judy and Gary Olson to the ICS family! They have individually accepted positions in the Donald Bren School of ICS as Bren chairs in the Department of Informatics. We can't wait to have them hear and look forward to future collaborations!