User:Julian
From Croquet Consortium
Julian Lombardi is one of six principal architects of the Croquet Project and is currently serving as interim director of the Consortium. His an Assistant Vice President with Duke University's Office of Information Technology and is also a Senior Research Scholar with Duke University's program in Information Science + Information Studies, and adjunct professor with Duke University's Department of Computer Science.
A former biologist, Lombardi combined his interests in information technology, complex systems, and the phenomenon of emergence in biological systems to begin designing and developing computer-supported collaboration systems involving self-optimizing massively multiuser online 3D computer graphics|3D environments in the mid-1990s. Lombardi eventually founded ViOS, Inc. where, during the period from 1999-2001, he served as the venture capital-backed company's first CEO and then Chief Creative Officer/Software architect. There, he designed and implemented ViOS, a client-server technology that enabled the first 3D computer graphics|3D user interface to the Internet in the form of a highly customizable and massively multi-user online environment - essentially a very large scale social software system/3D computer graphics|3D wiki. From 2002-2005, he managed a software research and development group developing innovative media technologies for learning and instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
