1. Julian Lombardi was born on November 11,1956 and is an American inventor, author, educator, and computer scientist known for his work with socio-computational systems, scalable virtual world technologies, and in the design and deployment of deeply collaborative virtual learning environments.
Julian Lombardi went on to attend Buckley Country Day School and public schools in Great Neck, New York and elsewhere on Long Island.
Julian Lombardi attended graduate school at Clemson University, where he received his MA in 1980 and was granted a PhD in zoology in 1983.
In 1986, Julian Lombardi was appointed an assistant professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Julian Lombardi served on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro until 1999.
Julian Lombardi served as director of the university's Analytical Visualization Center from 1993 to 1999.
Currently Julian Lombardi is an assistant vice president with Duke University's Office of Information Technology.
Julian Lombardi is a senior research scholar with Duke University's program in information science and information studies, and an adjunct professor with Duke University's Department of Computer Science.
An advocate of the use of imaging technologies and early adopter of information technology in university teaching and learning, in 1987 Julian Lombardi began writing HyperTalk-based software applications in support of learning and instruction in anatomy and physiology.
Julian Lombardi is one of the six principal architects of the Croquet software developer's toolkit and from 2006 to 2008 he served as executive director of the Croquet Consortium, a not-for-profit organization to promote the adoption of Croquet open source software technologies.
Julian Lombardi led a National Science Foundation funded effort to develop Open Cobalt, an open source and multi-platform metaverse browser and toolkit application and toolset to support the large scale visualization and simulation needs of educators and researchers.