The first project is to be an exploration of the relation between place and the life and works of a famous person associated with the universities of Texas, Oxford, Cambridge, Salamanca, Paris, Bologna, or Heidelberg, especially how the spirit or legacy of the famous person is embodied in the campus as place. You must either (1) connect the person with yourself , as in a dialogue between you and his or her ghost or whatever, as many previous projects have done, or (2) present a dialogue between ghosts from two or more different institutions. Extra points are given for (1) choosing someone in your proposed major or concentration; and (2) conversations with more than one ghost. If there is any doubt about the association between the person you are considering and one of the seven institutions on our list, consult with the instructor before beginning the research. For my first project, I created a virtual web-bot in the Mappa Mundi, also known as the MOO. A virtual University of Texas is connected to this world, and within UT there are myriads of different buildings and landmarks. Ghosts of years past haunt the virtual world, and I made my own addition to it by creating The Flawn Academic Center as well as the Audio/Visual Library within it. There, Owen Wilson stalks the video listings, hoping some beautiful girl may happen across his famous persons. As a bot in the MOO, Owen is programmed to make responses to certain keywords and phrases. I have also equipped him to answer basic questions accurately through patterned responses. Top him off with a myriad of random responses, and Owen is quite an entertaining feature on the MOO, just like he is in real life. If you would like to connect to the MOO and view my projects, please email me. To view the formal writing assignment for my MOO project, click here to launch the project page in a new window to maintain formatting.