Apologies yet again for the short notice, but we can't always plan
these talks too far in advance...
Don Brutzman is very active in the VRML and CVE fields so it should be
a fascinating talk.
Directions to UCL-CS are here:
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/directions.html
Anthony
> Date: Jan. 14, 1999
>
> Time: 2-3 pm
>
> Place: 229 Pearson Building
>
> Chair: Manuel Olivera
>
> Speaker: Don Brutzman
> (US Naval Postgraduate School)
>
>
> We do not have a precise title for the talk because Prof. Brutzman is
> currently in transit. Manuel Olivera has kindly prepared the following
> description of Prof. Brutzman and his research:
>
>
> "Cyberspace as portrayed in Gibson's Necromancer is fast
> transcending the boundaries of mere science fiction to become common
> reality as research pushes the limits of current technologies. The
> literature has many terms to denotate the present encarnation of
> cyberspace. At the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Montrey, the
> chosen phrase has been: 'Large Scale Virtual Environments - LSVE',
> where multi-users (over a thousand) may interact with each other,
> the environment and existing agents.
>
> The field of LSVE is a multidisciplinary field of research where
> networks, graphics, visualisation, databases, psychology amongst
> many others come together in symbiosis. This talk, however, will
> focus on LSVE from the networking perspective demonstrating the
> issues involved in building an infrastructure able to support
> numerous participants within a believable environment. The main
> premisse is to consider all resources scarce, thus requiring careful
> management of what is available. Projects such as the Area Of
> Interest Manager (AOIM) and Virtual Reality Transfer Protocol (VRTP)
> are some of the initiatives currently undergoing at NPS with
> possibly significant impact in the area of virtual environments.
>
> Don Brutzman is an associated professor working in the
> Interdisciplinary Academic Group at the Naval Postgraduate School in
> Montrey where he coordinates several initiatives related to large
> scale virtual environments. He has been an active member in VR
> community, being ever present and involved in renowned conferences
> such as SIGGRAPH and VRML."
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