Greetings from Boston
It has been a long time since I last wrote anything in this blog, so I would just want to let any potential readers know that I have not forgotten about the blog or my research.
One of the main reasons for the lack of recent posts is that I’m currently enjoying a research stay at the Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital Laboratory of Computer Science in Boston. Actually I have been here since May 1st, invited by Carl R. Blesius.
I’m having a great time and doing some very interesting stuff (I would say I’ll keep you posted, but I’d rather not make promises without being sure I will keep them). This includes participating in a variety of projects for different (medicine-related) clients, always with stuff related to .LRN.
The bad part is that what I’m doing here, although interesting and very related to e-learning and standards, is not directly related to Game Based Learning, so the <e-Game> project is kind of suspended until summer.
On the other hand, the group now has the collaboration of a new student, Bruno Torrijano, who is making a great job to keep the project running in my absence (he’s writing some very interesting stuff using the <e-Game> language).
In the meantime, we have received positive reviews for our submissions to the ECTEL 2006 and the ICEC 2006 conferences, where we will be presenting different advances in the development of the <e-Game> project. More information about this soon (or late).
As a final note, I uploaded some new photos to the album from my 2004 vacation on the Mediterranean (with a slight delay). I also have photos from the ITNG 2006 Conference (Las Vegas) and the CELDA 2005 Conference (Porto) that I will eventually post.
