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Julian Lombardi

Julian Lombardi
Assistant Vice President
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
UNITED STATES

Julian Lombardi

Biography

Dr. Julian Lombardi is an Assistant Vice President with Duke University’s Office of Information Technology, an Adjunct Professor with Duke University's Department of Computer Science, and a Senior Research Scholar with Duke University's program in Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS). He is also the Executive Director of the Croquet Consortium. A former tenured biology professor, Lombardi combined his interests in information technology, complex systems, and the phenomenon of emergence in biological systems and began designing and developing computer-supported collaboration systems involving self-optimizing massively multiuser online 3D environments in the mid-1990s. In 1999 he founded, ViOS Inc., a venture-backed 3D virtual world software company where he served as the venture capital-backed company's first CEO and then Chief Creative Officer/Software architect. From 2002-2005, he managed a learning technology research and development group in University of Wisconsin-Madison's Division of Information Technology.

Presentations

Recent Presentations
EventSessionDate
ELI 2006 Annual MeetingCroquet: A System Architecture for Real-Time Collaboration and Communication01/31/2006
EDUCAUSE 2005Shaping the Direction of Higher Education Through Strategic Alliances: The Croquet Open-Source Consortium10/21/2005
NLII March Focus Session 2005Experience Emerging Practices and Learning Technologies (Project Parlors)03/09/2005
NLII Annual Meeting 2005Croquet: Open Source Software for Creating Collaborative Virtual Environments 01/25/2005
EDUCAUSE 2004Phoenix Rising: A Portal for New Ideas in Education10/22/2004
Midwest Regional Conference 2003Course Management Systems03/26/2003

Blogs

Julian's blog
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Interests

Tags
Research Computing
Faculty
Departmental/Distributed Computing
Instructional Technology
Media Services
Network Services
Research and Development
Telephony
User Services
Web Services
Institutional Research and Planning
Library
Student Services

Membership Information

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Membership Information
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ELIParticipating Representative

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