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JJ Ventrella
is a programmer-artist doing virtual world design
and artificial life research. Ventrella received his first degree
in Art Education/Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University.
A love of science, geometry, and animation made programming a logical
next step - which led to Syracuse University, where he earned an MFA
in Computer Graphics. After working at SU helping researchers with data
visualization and teaching CAD courses, Ventrella moved on to UC San
Diego where he taught courses briefly, and then bounced back east to
get a third degree from the MIT Media Lab. One more bounce landed him
in San Francisco where he began working on simulation games and virtual
worlds. He became Principle Inventor and second co-founder of There.com.
Later, he served as Senior Developer at Linden Lab. He is currently designing
the NASA Images site at the Internet Archive. Ventrella writes
papers and chapters on topics centered around evolutionary computation and creativity.
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