UCI tech lab helps people get in...

UCI tech lab helps people get in the game

The Game Culture and Technology Lab at UC Irvine will collaborate

with the San Diego Supercomputer Center and Butterfly.net to unveil

the first grid-based game server that will help an unlimited number

of users to interact online for games, research or teaching.

A “Game Grid Innovation Workshop” will introduce participants to

the grid’s capabilities and include demonstrations and brainstorming

sessions for research opportunities.

Project proposals will be considered beginning in January,

enabling researchers and independent game developers to experiment

with the technology before it goes public next year.

The workshop, to be held today from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the

Beall Center for Art and Technology at the UCI campus, is free and

will provide lunch and refreshments. Respond to [email protected].

Information: Visit

https://proxy.arts.uci.edu/gamelab/events/grid_wkshp_03.html.

Web site plans Super bowl predictions

Costa Mesa-based Football.com will once again offer Super bowl

predictions in a special three-part series in which each game will be

analyzed from top to bottom, the Web site’s editor said.

More than 750,000 football fans visit the Web site each month,

according to the company’s numbers.

Football.com was founded in 1997 and offers free content to its

users.

-- Deepa Bharath