We are about to leave to give three lectures on Digital Cities and Virtual London in Japan and one in Monaco. Details for the Japan lectures, for those wishing to attend are as follows:

Thursday 25th January, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 10.00 – 12.00 pm, Hitachi Software Engineering Co. Ltd. I don’t have room details currently but if you are interested contact Professor Homma Toshihisa for more information;

Saturday 27th January, Tokyo University, Tokyo, 10.00 – 12.00 pm, Centre for Spatial Information Science. Full details can be found the on the seminar page (in Japanese);

Monday 29th January, Ritsumekan Univeristy, Kyoko, 13.30-17.15pm. View the pdf flyer for full details.

If your coming along please feel free to come and say hello after the lecture…

Next week sees us flying off for a series of conferences in Japan and Europe. If your a reader in Japan we will post up the dates and locations on Monday as each of the lectures – on Digital Cities – is free to attend.

During the week we will be bringing the latest news from the best Japanese Research Labs regarding city modelling and digital representations of the city.

After Japan we are off to Monaco for the VizMasters Design Modelling and Visualisation Conference on Feb 2nd to talk on when architecture and games collide. While preparing the presentation this weekend we will be loading up the XBox 360 and capturing some city movies, so expect a post on XBox 360 modelling and a YouTube walk through early next week.

In the meantime we are about to take the word verification systems off the comments systems after a couple of emails saying its tricky to use. Its in place to stop spam, but if its also stopping commenting then it has to go.. So feel free to comment on any posts without having to try and work out what letters are in the word verification box.