Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!well!bluefire
From: bluefire@well.UUCP (Bob Jacobson)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: SCI.VIRTUAL-WORLDS
Summary: Howard Rheingold as moderator.
Keywords: virtual reality, virtual worlds, cyberspace, artificial reality
Message-ID: <14734@well.UUCP>
Date: 26 Nov 89 21:44:08 GMT
References: <114@well.uucp> <14646@well.UUCP> <1860@netxcom.DHL.COM>
Reply-To: bluefire@well.UUCP (Bob Jacobson)
Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U. of Wash.
Lines: 21



In response to Edwin Wiles, the sci.v-w newsgroups would be moderated
by Howard Rheingold.  Rheingold currently publishes the newsletter,
BRAINSTORMS, and is the author of TOOLS FOR THOUGHT among other cutting
edge science books.  He is also the host on The WELL (Whole Earth
'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA) of the "Mind" and "Information"
conferences.

Rheingold is researching material for his forthcoming book with Simon
& Schuster, to examine the nature of virtual worlds research both as
a scientific pursuit and a cultural phenomenon.  Howard has been acting
as a go-between among the various virtual-worlds research facilities
for several months now; we thought he would be an ideal moderator for
the proposed newsgroup.  Please feel free to ask him questions regarding
his interests and moderating skills.
-- 
BOB JACOBSON, Associate Director, Human Interface Technology Laboratory
       University of Washington (FU-20), Seattle, WA 98195 USA
   (206) 543-5075 (voice), 543-5380 (fax)   *   bluefire@well.uucp
                >> "We can do virtually anything." <<