Studying mud technology

• Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: A Next-Generation Collaborative Programming Language (NOT SUBMITTED)
• Plan of Study: Exploratory Programming with Collaborative Programming Languages
• Natural Language Processing For Multi-User Virtual Worlds

I'm also working on a formal (operational) semantics of the MOO language.

• Meta-links:
  • MUD FAQ
  • MOO FAQ
  • Agora Wiki
• Server/Language-directed research:
  • MOO
  • MOO extensions:
    • Waifs
    • Blessed-tables
    • FileIO
    • XML parsing
  • LPMOO
  • ColdC
  • ColdStore
  • POO
  • DGD
  • LPC (docs) and MudOS
  • TinyMUSH (current server: 2.2)
  • Muq
  • The Dropped Pomegranate Project (dp2)
  • Lithium
  • Matrix
  • V-Worlds
  • Neverworld
  • Mu
  • COOLMUD
  • FMPL
  • SchMUSE
• Core/Library-directed research:
  • JHcore
  • enCore
  • SenseMedia (WOO, WOODS, CHIME, VOODO)
  • ColdCore
  • Lima mudlib
• Client-directed research:
  • MCP, the Mud Client Protocol
  • TWin
  • CVW
  • Network Places: Jupiter, AstroVR, and Supernova
  • tkMOO-light
  • Tapped In (and Tapestry in particular), part of the Virtual Places for Collaborative Distance Learning project
  • MacMOOSE
  • LabSpace
• Non-mud systems:
  • Multi-User Java Virtual Machine
  • SLK, JRes, and J-Kernel
  • CORBA
  • E and ELib
  • T Spaces
  • Shared Data Objects
  • Casbah
  • Gamora
  • CL-HTTP
• Papers:
  • A Security Kernel Based on the Lambda Calculus by Jonathan Rees
  • LogiMOO: an Extensible Multi-User Virtual World with Natural Language Control by Paul Tarau, Koen De Bosschere, Veronica Dahl, and Stephen Rochefort
  • The Architecture of a Distributed Virtual Worlds System by Manny Vellon, Kirk Marple, Don Mitchell, and Steven Drucker
  • MIT SchMUSE: Class-Based Remote Delegation in a Capricious Distributed Environment by Michael R. Blair, Natalya Cohen, David M. LaMacchia, and Brian K. Zuzga
  • Language-Level Support for Exploratory Programming of Distributed Virtual Environments (pdf) by Blair MacIntyre and Steven Feiner
  • AstroVR, An On-line Collaborative Environment for Research in Astrophysics by Dave Van Buren, Michael Brundage, Pavel Curtis, and David A. Nichols
  • High-Latency, Low-Bandwidth Windowing in the Jupiter Collaboration System by David A. Nichols, Pavel Curtis, Michael Dixon, and John Lamping
  • The Jupiter Audio/Video Architecture: Secure Multimedia in Network Places by Pavel Curtis, Ron Frederick, Michael Dixon, and David A. Nichols
  • MUDs Grow Up: Social Virtual Reality in the Real World by Pavel Curtis and David Nichols
  • Collaborative Information Retrieval: Gopher from MOO by Larry Masinter and Erik Ostrom
  • Collaborative Networked Communication: MUDs as Systems Tools by Rémy Evard
  • Tele-Presence Microscopy & the ANL LabSpace (eLab) Project by N.J. Zaluzec, R. Stevens, R. Evard, T. Disz, R. Olson, and T. Kuhfuss
  • A Window on Shared Virtual Environments by Denis Amselem
  • What's An Agent, Anyway? A Sociological Case Study. by Leonard N. Foner
  • Prolix - A Text-based Participant System for VR. by Mark Takacs
  • Spatial Culling of Interpersonal Communication within Large-Scale Multi-User Virtual Environments by Aaron Kaleva Pulkka
  • Shared Virtual Worlds for Education: The ExploreNet Experiment by Charles E. Hughes and J. Michael Moshell
  • The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat by Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer
  • Commerce and Society in Cyberspace by Electric Communities
  • Distributed Architectures for Virtual Communities by Electric Communities
  • A Common LISP Hypermedia Server by John C. Mallery