报告题目：The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Metaverse (元宇宙生存手冊)
主讲嘉宾：许彬 (Prof. Pan Hui)
报告时间：2022年1月5日 14：00-16：00
报告地点：复旦大学江湾校区交叉二号楼 A1003室
报告摘要：Since the popularisation of the Internet in the 1990s, the cyberspace has kept evolving. We have created various computer-mediated virtual environments including social networks, video conferencing, virtual 3D worlds (e.g., VR Chat), augmented reality applications (e.g., Pokemon Go), and Non-Fungible Token Games (e.g., Upland). Such virtual environments, albeit non-perpetual and unconnected, have bought us various degrees of digital transformation. The term “metaverse” has been coined to further facilitate the digital transformation in every aspect of our physical lives. At the core of the metaverse stands the vision of an immersive Internet as a gigantic, unified, persistent, and shared realm. While the metaverse may seem futuristic, catalysed by emerging technologies such as Extended Reality, 5G, and Artificial Intelligence, the digital “big bang” of our cyberspace is not far away. This seminar aims to offer a comprehensive framework that examines the latest metaverse development under the dimensions of state-of-the-art technologies and metaverse ecosystems, illustrates the possibility of the digital “big bang”, and propose a concrete research agenda for the development of the metaverse.
关于嘉宾：许彬(Pan Hui)教授是香港科技大学计算媒体与艺术教授，同时也是芬兰赫尔辛基大学诺基亚数据科学讲座教授，此前曾出任芬兰阿尔托大学社会计算和网络的兼职教授。他于剑桥大学计算机科学系获得博士学位，在香港大学获得学士和硕士学位。许彬教授在工业界也有非常丰富的经验，他曾任职德国德国电信实验室并获得杰出科学家头衔，也曾在英国剑桥英特尔研究院和法国巴黎汤姆森研究院任职从事科研工作。许教授是增强现实和移动计算领域的世界一流专家，拥有400多篇学术论文、30项专利，论文引用高达20,000余次。他的学术贡献也赢得了多个国际专业组织的认同，并被选为英国皇家工程院国际院士、欧洲科学院院士、IEEE Fellow和 ACM 杰出科学家。