[Brown CS Talks] Brown CS Seminar: Oliver Bimber in Lubrano on 5/2/02 at 4 pm

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			      CS Seminar

		  
		  The Department of Computer Science
			   BROWN UNIVERSITY

			      
			       presents

			    Oliver Bimber

			Fraunhofer CRCG, Inc.

		   Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 4:00 pm
	       Lubrano Conference Room (CIT 4th floor)
		Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm
		 

		   Mixed Reality Beyond Conventions
 

			       Abstract

The rapid advances in computing and communications are dramatically
changing all aspects of our lives. In particular, sophisticated 3D
visualization and display devices are being used to complement our
familiar physical world with computer-generated augmentations. On the
broad view this is known as Mixed Reality (MR). Classic
projection-based Virtual Reality (VR) systems in different
configurations have developed into a standard in various domains.
Today, a variety of systems and techniques based on projection
technology have become available. Some of these approaches have even
been extended to the Augmented Reality (AR) domain. We present a
compact overview of the state-of-the-art technology and methods that
reach beyond the conventional display approaches such as CAVEs,
workbenches, walls, or head-mounted displays.

Curriculum Vitae: Oliver Bimber is currently a senior researcher at
the Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics in Providence,
RI/USA and a Ph.D. candidate at the Technical University of Darmstadt,
Germany under supervision of Prof. Dr. Encarnacao. From 1998 to 2001
Bimber worked as a scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer
Graphics in Rostock, Germany where he initiated the Virtual Showcase
project in Europe. He received the degree of Dipl. Inform. (FH) in
Scientific Computing from the University of Applied Science Giessen
and a B.Sc. degree in Commercial Computing from the Dundalk Institute
of Technology.

In his career, Bimber received several scientific achievement awards
and is author of more than thirty technical papers and journal
articles. He was guest editor of the Computer & Graphics special issue
on ``Mixed Realities - Beyond Conventions'', and has served as session
chair and review committee member for several international
conferences. Bimber also gave a number of guest lectures at recognized
institutions. Among them were Princeton University, the IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center, the DaimlerChrysler Virtual Reality Competence
Center, and the German National Research Center for Information
Technology. His research interests are display technologies, rendering
and human-computer interaction for Mixed Realities. Bimber is member
of IEEE, ACM and ACM Siggraph.


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