The simSchool project we’ve been working on with CurveShfit for several years now has just won a Next Generation Learning Challenges grant from EDUCAUSE. simSchool is a classroom simulator that helps teachers develop experience in analyzing student differences, adapting instruction to individual learner needs, gathering data about the impacts of instruction, and seeing the results of their teaching. We look forward to working with AACE, UNT-IITTL, Pragmatic Solutions, FableVision, and SITE on building the next version of this exciting project.
simSchool
Jul 7, ’10
4:46 PM
We’ve started working with simSchool again, continuing work on one of the projects that Brandt led development on before founding Logic Branch. simSchool is a classroom simulator that helps teachers develop experience in analyzing student differences, adapting instruction to individual learner needs, gathering data about the impacts of instruction, and seeing the results of their teaching. We’re starting with moving the application for simSchool to a new server cluster at the University of North Texas, to enable it to scale up to serve a larger user base.
LifeNaut Launch
Jun 1, ’10
9:50 AM
Today we’re glad to announce the public release of our rewrite of the LifeNaut research project. LifeNaut is an experiment to investigate how digital technology can best be used to help preserve a person’s memories, emotions, and personality. As part of this project, we built functionality for people to connect socially, upload and share photos, documents, videos, and more. Users can also use several instruments to measure various aspects of their personalities, and can create a digital avatar that can be trained to converse like the user. Here’s a preview of what it looks like:
Intellidimension
Jan 2, ’10
11:23 AM
We’ve begun working with Intellidimension on the next generation of RDF Gateway, their semantic web database software. The new version, Semantics.NET, is built on top of Microsoft’s .NET platform and will support distributed processing of SparQL queries across clusters of servers. We are working on optimizing the performance of the distributed processing, to ensure that complex queries over large datasets can be handled efficiently by various sized clusters of database servers.
LifeNaut Phase 1 complete
Jul 30, ’09
5:39 PM
Last week we delivered the first phase of development of the new platform for LifeNaut.com, and the product was successfully demonstrated to the project board of directors. LifeNaut is an experiment to investigate how digital technology can best be used to help preserve a person’s memories, emotions, and personality. Logic Branch is working with LifeNaut to improve the quality of their code to meet the requirements of the project’s long term goals.