April 5th, Ars Virtua New Gallery and New Media Center
CADRE Salon with artist and researcher Eric Paulos
6:30 PM SLT

Eric Paulos is a Senior Research Scientist at Intel in Berkeley,
California where he leads the Urban Atmospheres project - challenged
to use innovative methods to understand society and the future fabric
of our emerging digital and wireless public urban landscapes and
lifestyles. Eric's research interests span a deep body of work in
Urban Computing, Social Telepresence, Robotics, Tangible Media, and
Intimate Computing. Eric received my PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley
where he researched scientific, and social issues surrounding
internet based telepresence, robotics, and mediated communication
tools. During that time he developed several internet based tele-
operated robots including, Personal Roving Presence devices (PRoPs)
and Space Browsing helium filled tele-operated blimps.

http://www.paulos.net/
http://cadre.sjsu.edu/salons/
http://arsvirtua.com/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dowden/42/60/52

Ars Virtua is a new media center and gallery located in the synthetic
world of Second Life. It is a new type of space that leverages the
tension between 3-D rendered game space and terrestrial reality,
between simulated and simulation. Ars Virtua is sponsored by the
CADRE Laboratory for New Media.