UC Irvine Research Institute Announces International Collaboration.IRVINE, Calif. -- Researchers at UC Irvine's Calit2 Computer Game Culture and Technology Laboratory are embarking on a new partnership with Korean researchers that will advance information sharing See data conferencing. and digital gaming technology. The three-year, $1.3 million collaboration with the Center for Digital Industry Promotion (DIP) in Daegu City, Korea, will allow Calit2 researchers to work hand-in-hand with their Korean counterparts over a high-speed digital network. A new unit, the Daegu Global R&D Collaboration Center, will be created in Daegu City to serve as a hub for the trans-Pacific research project. Participants will begin by improving the long-distance communications link that will allow them to interact effectively. Researchers will develop tools, techniques and infrastructure to link the game lab, Daegu Global R&D Collaboration Center, DIP and others in Daegu. With a high-speed broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). communication infrastructure established, participants in both countries can communicate via high-definition Internet videoconferencing See Web conferencing. . They will focus on heterogeneous Not the same. Contrast with homogeneous. heterogeneous - Composed of unrelated parts, different in kind. Often used in the context of distributed systems that may be running different operating systems or network protocols (a heterogeneous network). game networks, new game devices, and tools and techniques for developing beyond next-generation games. Collaborators will investigate assorted game networks that will facilitate playing a single game on multiple devices. They will also investigate new methods that facilitate massively scalable approaches to game development and play. The joint venture will be managed by UCI UCI University of California, Irvine UCI Union Cycliste Internationale (International Cycling Union) UCI Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos UCI United Cinemas International (UK) Game Lab Director Robert Nideffer and Associate Director for Research Walt Scacchi. During the contract's three years, Korean scholars, managers and CEOs will visit UC Irvine for conferences and other collaborations. Researchers will host workshops in Daegu and Irvine each year and will conduct meetings through the information-sharing infrastructure. "We want to help expand domestic and international markets for computer games that incorporate new technology to facilitate cross-cultural game development and play," Scacchi said. About UCGameLab: The Game Culture & Technology Laboratory researches game metaphors, design principles and technologies for alternative content and context delivery. The focus is on beyond-next-generation games for the next-generation Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and Web 3.0. http://ucgamelab.net About Calit2: Calit2 at UC Irvine conducts multidisciplinary mul·ti·dis·ci·pli·nar·y adj. Of, relating to, or making use of several disciplines at once: a multidisciplinary approach to teaching. research that will drive the state's and the nation's economies during the coming years. More than 130 leading California computer, telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , software and applications companies are partnering with Calit2 faculty to conduct research in a wide variety of areas. |
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