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October 2, 2007

MIT and Princeton Face Off in Second Life

It’s no secret that the most competitive colleges tussle over attracting the brightest students. Now it appears that their conflicts extend into ownership of virtual land.

Janet Temos, director of the Educational Technologies Center at Princeton University, told a universitywide council on Monday that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had complained that Princeton’s campus in Second Life was encroaching on MIT’s campus, according to an article in Princeton’s student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian.

The article says that as a result, Princeton shifted its virtual campus farther away from MIT’s.

“They have us blocked off,” Ms. Temos was quoted as saying. “You can go to Cornell, though. They’re quite nice to us.”

Princeton recently unveiled its Second Life campus, which includes eight islands and 3D reconstructions of many buildings from the institution’s real campus, including Nassau Hall, the campus’s oldest building and home to administrative offices. —-Andrea L. Foster

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1. Can you correct the article link?

   — Susan Foster    Oct 3, 06:04 AM    #

2. Is this a joke? You’d think that schools of this caliber would have better things to do.

   — DW    Oct 3, 10:36 AM    #

3. Doctor: I’m going to have to operate on your brain.

   Patient: Can I ask where you trained to be a brain surgeon?

   Doctor: I was in the first graduating class of Harvard Second Life Medical College.

   Patient: No thank you.

   Doctor: Hey, come back. It’s Harvard! It really is! My avatar graduated 1st in her class! Really!

   — marci    Oct 3, 02:16 PM    #

4. Everyone is cashing in, be it MIT, Princeton, and even some of the high caliber companies are all cashing in on the oppurtunities virtual worlds can and will provide for the next generation. Not only is it a game, it’s a way we do business. What’s next? Plugging a wire into our brains and “jacking” in! We’re not too far off … the cyberpunk era has already begun …

   — Michael    Nov 7, 10:48 PM    #

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