Social Computing Group

David’s research centers on virtual worlds, with an emphasis on interoperability between virtual worlds, and the business and social uses of immersive spaces. He is a 23-year employee of IBM Research, with summer and university internships extending back another five years. His interests in social computing and online collaboration extend back to work in 1982-1985 on IBM’s online BBS style conferencing systems, and tools for sharing applications in the very early days of personal computing.

David has worked on a variety of projects in his IBM career, including network and systems management, intelligent agents, reasoning engines, high distributed e-mail systems and reasoning systems for policy based systems.

In his current work on virtual worlds, David is exploring the long-term implications of broadly deployed social collaboration tools. He works with Linden Lab’s Architecture Working Group, and IBM’s OpenSim team. The work addresses both the technology needed to permit interoperation between virtual worlds as well as policy and social implications.

David can be found in Second Life^® as Zha Ewry.

Contact Information:

External Mail:

email: dwl@us.ibm.com

Second Life: Zha Ewry