Convergence of the Real and the Virtual
The First Scientific Conference in World of Warcraft
This page is the archive of the May 9-11, 2008 conference held in World of Warcraft. This is believed to have been the first really large scientific conference held inside a gameworld, with about 120 avatars attending each of the three plenary sessions. The proceeedings were published as a conventional academic book: Bainbridge, William Sims (ed). 2010. Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual. London: Springer.
Post-conference material:
Pre-conference material:
The 2008 old Guild