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A Biographical Sketches
Pages 519-525

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... He is cofounder and director of the MIT Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Research Consortium, as well as cofounder and managing editor of the new MIT Press journal Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. STEVE BRYSON is an employee of Computer Sciences Corporation working under contract for the Applied Research Office of the Numerical Aerodynamics Simulation Systems Division at the NASA-Ames Research Center.
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From page 520...
... He joined the VIEW lab at the NASA-Ames Research Center in 1987, where he was involved in integrating the various input-output and graphics systems into a virtual environment. This included research in software architectures for virtual reality systems and human factors.
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From page 521...
... Her previous work as a National Research Council senior staff officer has included a study of modeling cost and performance of military enlistment, a review of federally sponsored education research activities, and a study to evaluate performance appraisal for merit pay. For the past 25 years her work has concentrated on human factors, cognitive psychology, and information system design.
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From page 522...
... He was the first chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on Human Factors. Throughout his career he has been concerned with issues related to human performance and system design, ranging from the design of a control panel for an advanced music synthesizer to the impact of the introduction of automation into aircraft cockpits.
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From page 523...
... He has also authored or coauthored numerous other books and papers. ELIZABETH WENZEL is director of the Spatial Auditory Displays Lab in the Aerospace Human Factors Research Division at the NASA-Ames Research Center, directing development of real-time display technology and
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From page 524...
... From 1985 to 1986 she was a National Research Council postdoctoral research associate at NASA-Ames, working on the auditory display of information for aviation systems. ANDREW WITKIN is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
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From page 525...
... His main focus in research is in the area of computer graphics, specifically the development of large-scale, networked, three-dimensional virtual environments and visual simulation systems. He is the senior editor for virtual environments for the quarterly Presence; for that journal, he has coedited special issues on Pacific Rim virtual reality and telepresence.
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