Broad Area Colloquium For AI-Geometry-Graphics-Robotics-Vision
NPS MOVES - Entertainment Research Directions
Michael Zyda
Chair, MOVES Academic Group
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California
Wednesday, April 19, 2000
refreshments 4:05PM, talk begins 4:15PM
TCseq201, Lecture Hall B
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
Abstract
The National Research Council report entitled "Modeling and Simulation -
Linking Entertainment and Defense described a basic and applied research
agenda for both defense and entertainment, with foci on technologies for
immersion, networked simulation, computer-generated autonomy, and tools for
creating synthetic environments. In the presentation, we examine the future
of networked entertainment and its obvious implications for defense modeling
and simulation. We look at the research that must be done to get there and
the types of researchers and research organization that must be involved. We
then look at the Naval Postgraduate School's Modeling, Virtual Environments
and Simulation (MOVES) Academic Group's research efforts and how that
organization is fulfilling the NRC's proposed research agenda.
About the Speaker
Michael Zyda is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Professor Zyda is also the
Chair of the NPS Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation Academic
Group. Since 1986, he has been the Director of the NPSNET Research Group.
Professor Zyda's research interests include computer graphics, large-scale,
networked 3D virtual environments, computer-generated characters, video
production, entertainment/defense collaboration, and modeling and
simulation. He is known for his work on software architectures for networked
virtual environments.
Professor Zyda was a member of the National Research Council's Committee on
"Virtual Reality Research and Development". Professor Zyda was the chair of
the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications
Board Committee on "Modeling and Simulation: Linking Entertainment &
Defense". From that report, for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army
for Research and Technology, Professor Zyda drafted the operating plan and
research agenda for the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT).
Professor Zyda is a member of the National Research Council Committee on
Advanced Engineering Environments. Professor Zyda is also a Senior Editor
for Virtual Environments for the MIT Press quarterly PRESENCE, the journal
of teleoperation and virtual environments. He is a member of the Editorial
Advisory Board of the journal Computers & Graphics. Professor Zyda is a
member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Fraunhofer Center for Research
in Computer Graphics, Providence, Rhode Island.
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