Louisiana State University

from The Daily Reveille

clipped from media.www.lsureveille.com University establishes virtual presence in Second Life The University is interested in virtual worlds, said Stephen Beck, director of the Center for Computation and Technology Lab for Creative Arts & Technology and the head of the CCT's Cultural Computing focus area. The buildings were designed by Paulo Perkins, architecture senior, and David Hebert, University alumnus. Both students were architecture undergraduates when they developed and built the virtual campus. "Stephen Beck approached us and asked if we wanted to design it," Perkins said. "It took 80 days to build everything." "Not a lot is going on right now," Beck said. "Content is one of the things we don't have." clipped from media.www.lsureveille.com Universities such as Harvard, Stanford and New York University have a highly developed virtual presence and are capable of conducting lectures.