Presentations

24 March 2004

MONTEREY (mz) -- The presentations below are in Adobe Acrobat or Powerpoint or Apple Keynote form.

23 March 2004: "Crossing the Chasm Panel," at the Serious Games Workshop, Game Developers Conference, San Jose.

11 - 12 December 2003: "The Future for Our Community Maybe Goes Thataway!" at the National Research Council CSTB Research Futures for the Field of Computer Graphics Workshop.

3 - 5 December 2003: "This Year in the MOVES Institute," as an invited speaker for IEEE Cyberworlds 2003, the International Conference on Cyberworlds, Singapore.

13 - 15 Nov 2003: "Weapons of Mass Distraction - America's Army Recruits for the Real War,"at the State of Play Conference, held at the New York Law School.

6 November 2003: "The MOVES Degree and the MOVES Research Program," at the Navy TIM Conference on Expanding Human Expertise in Modeling and Simulation Conference, at the Mark Center Club, Arlington, VA.

30 September 2003: "This Year in the MOVES Institute," at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

5 August 2003: "This Year at the MOVES Institute," at the MOVES Institute Open House, 5 - 7 August 2003.

11 - 13 June 2003: "This Year at the MOVES Institute," 7th International Conference on Telecommunications ConTel 2003, Zagreb, Croatia.

30 May 2003: "This Year at the MOVES Institute," at the University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute.

28 - 30 April 2003: Moderator for the Panel Session "Does the Metaverse Start Now?" Talk Title - "Will you take the blue pill or will you take the red pill? Waiting for the Metaverse or something like it ..." at the ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Monterey, California.

15 April 2003: "A Quick Look at the MOVES Institute," at the DMSO Entertainment & Defense Workshop, held at USC ICT.

27 February 2003: "Weapons of Mass Distraction - America's Army Recruits for the Real War," as an invited speaker to the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Design, Innovate, Communicate & Entertain (DICE) Summit, Las Vegas.

12 February 2003: "Weapons of Mass Distraction - America's Army Recruits for the Real War," at the Stanford University Networking Seminar.

23 January 2003: "This Year at the MOVES Institute," as an invited speaker to the R&E Seminar Series, NSA.

10 December 2002: "This Year at the MOVES Institute," at COMNAVSURFPAC, San Diego, for VADM LeFleur.

9 December 2002: "Weapons of Mass Distraction - America's Army Recruits for the Real War," at the Naval War College Strategic Studies Group," Newport, RI.

9 December 2002: "This Year at the MOVES Institute," at the Naval War College Strategic Studies Group," Newport, RI.

20 November 2002: "This Year at the MOVES Institute," at the annual institute review for the NPS Dean of Research.

19 October 2002: "The MOVES Institute – from science fiction to your door", invited speaker at the 2002 Workshop on Intelligent Human Augmentation and Virtual Environments, UNC Chapel Hill.

11 October 2002: "The MOVES Institute's Army Game Project", Keynote speaker at the 2002 DS-RT Conference, Fort Worth.

10 October 2002: "The MOVES Institute's Army Game Project," at the Navy TIMS meeting, Orlando, Florida.

27 September & 17 September 2002: Summit & Press Conference on the Use of Advanced Technologies in Education and Training, US Department of Commerce, "2020 Visions" document from that event is here.

24 September 2002: "This Year in the MOVES Institute," USA TRADOC Council of Colonels, Monterey.

22 August 2002: "The MOVES Institute's Army Game Project," at the MOVES Institute Open House, Monterey.

20 August 2002: "This Year in the MOVES Institute", at the MOVES Institute Open House, Monterey.

16 April 2002: "The Future of Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation," Army SMART Conference, Salt Lake City.

25 March 2002: Helmuth Trefftz, Ivan Marsic, and Michael Zyda "Handling Heterogeneity in Networked Virtual Environments," IEEE VR, Orlando, Florida, 25 - 27 March 2002.

6 February 2002: "Introducing the MOVES Institute," at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Physics Colloquium.

4 February 2002: "Interactive Computer Generated Stories & Potential Outcome Exploration," at the NPS Board of Advisors meeting, National Defense University.

28 January 2002: "Interactive Computer Generated Stories & Potential Outcome Exploration," at the SCS VWSIM Conference, San Antonio.

9 January 2002: "Introducing the MOVES Institute," University of California, Santa Cruz.

6 December 2001: "Inventing Your Own Academic Degree & Research Institute," University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Computer Science.

29 November 2001: "The Future of Modeling, Virtual Environments & Simulation," IITSEC 2001, Orlando, Florida.

26 November 2001: Tutorial on "The Future of Interactive Networked Entertainment," IITSEC 2001, Orlando, Florida.

15 November 2001: "Interest Management," Workshop on Perceptive User Interfaces, Orlando, Florida.

27 October 2001: Panel on "The Future of Interactive Networked Entertainment," VSMM Conference, Berkeley, California.

19 October 2001: "Inventing Your Own Academic Degree & Research Institute," University of California Research Conference on Herding Cats, Moving Cemeteries, and Hauling Academic Trunks - Managing Change in Higher Education, UCLA Faculty Center, Los Angeles.

28 August 2001: "The MOVES Institute" at the MOVES Institute Open House, Monterey, California, 28 - 30 August 2001.

16 - 18 July 2001: "The MOVES Institute" and "The Future of Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation," Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Orlando, Florida.

12 June 2001 "Trends in Virtuality - Processors, 3D, Internet & Application," for CIO Connect via Celebrity Speakers International, London.

11 December 2000: "Modeling and Simulation Directions," CNO Executive Panel, NPS, Monterey.

6 December 2000: "Today in MOVES," Marine Corps M&S Meeting, Quantico.

5 December 2000: "Today in MOVES," Navy TIMS Conference, Washington, DC.

19 October 2000: "NPS MOVES - Entertainment Research Directions," Military Librarians Conference, Monterey.

21 September 2000: "Barriers to AEEs: Interoperability of Systems and Tools," Space 2000 Conference, Long Beach.

30-31 August 2000: "The NPS Modeling, Virtual Environments & Simulation Academic Program" and "NPS MOVES - Entertainment Research Directions," MOVES Open House, Monterey.

17 - 19 July 2000: "NPS MOVES - Entertainment Research Directions," "Networked Virtual Environments - An Overview!," and "The NPS MOVES Academic Program," at the 2000 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.

1 June 2000: "The NPS MOVES Program - Entertainment Research Directions," as keynote for the Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments, Amsterdam.

4 May 2000: "NPS MOVES - Entertainment Research Directions," at Georgia Institute of Technology, Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center.

19 April 2000: "NPS MOVES - Entertainment Research Directions," at Stanford University Computer Science Department Colloquium.

8 March 2000: "Networked Virtual Environments in 75 Minutes!," as an invited speaker for the virtual worlds class at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

7 March 2000: "NPS MOVES - Entertainment Research Directions," as an invited speaker for the virtual worlds class at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

17 February 2000: "VR, where do you really want to go tomorrow? - a retrospective on eight years of VR-related NRC studies," as the plenary speaker for the Office of Naval Research's Virtual Environment program review.

11 February 2000" "Games on the 'Net," as the keynote speaker for Colt Telecom's WebHotel opening, Frankfurt. Invitation via Celebrity Speakers International.

28 January 2000: "NPS MOVES - Entertainment Research Directions," as the keynote speaker at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, Newport Beach, California.

19 January 2000: "NPS MOVES - Entertainment Research Directions," as the plenary speaker at the Third Workshop of the UK's EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council) Multimedia and Networking Applications Programme, Southampton, United Kingdom.

11 November 1999: "VR and the Future of Networked Entertainment," as the Plenary Speaker, at the Future Directions in Virtual Environments II Workshop, Kungl Tekniska Hogskolan, Stockholm, Sweden. This is a longer, more detailed version than the 6 November presentation.

6 November 1999: "VR and the Future of Networked Entertainment," at the VirtualY2K conference, Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University.

13 September 1999: "Games on the 'Net," at the Internet-2 SocioTechnical Summit, Panel on Teleimmersion, Embodiment and Interface Design, at the Media Union, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

10 August 1999: Capps, M., Abrams, H., Anderson, D., Greenhalgh, C., Morse, K., Singhal, S., Watsen, K., and Zyda, M. "A Brief History of Shared, Networked Virtual Environments," in Course 34 "Developing Shared Virtual Environments," ACM SIGGRAPH 99.

23 June 1999: "Directions in Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES)," at the 67th Military Operations Research Society (MORS) Symposium, at West Point, New York.

23 February 1999: "The Institute for Collaborative Environment Studies," for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology. This is the operating plan and research agenda I drafted for the university advanced research center (UARC) awarded to the University of Southern California. USC renamed this the Institute for Creative Technologies. Prose version of plan. Web pointer to the press announcements for ICT (I am in the New York Times twice in one week, the 18th and 19th of August 1999 and in the LA Times on the 18th of August.) ICT status page.

19 November 1998: "Games on the 'Net," at the Munchner Kreis Congress on the Internet of Tomorrow, held at the European Patent Office in Munich. also given 16 November at the Fraunhofer Institute for Graphics, Darmstadt.

6 November 1998: "The NPS MOVES Academic Group & the UCB Design Visualization Center," presented at the University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design.

21 September 1998: "SimNavy – Phase 0 Building an Enterprise Model of the US Navy," at the 1998 Technology Initiatives Game, Fort Belvoir, VA.

3 April 1998: "NPSNET - Large-Scale Virtual Environment Technology Testbed," at the Turk Silahli Kuvvetleri (TSK) Modeling and Simulation Conference, Ankara, Turkey. Also given 5 March at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland and 6 March at the University of Geneva.

1 April 98: "Modeling and Simulation: Linking Entertainment & Defense," at the Turk Silahli Kuvvetleri (TSK) Modeling and Simulation Conference, Ankara, Turkey.

12 January 1998: "Virtual Reality Research Directions," at the Western Simulation Multiconference, Virtual Worlds and Simulation track.

4 December 1997: "NPSNET - Large-Scale Virtual Environment Technology Testbed," at the International Conference on Artificial Reality & Tele-existence (ICAT) 97, Tokyo, Japan.

30 October 1997: "Entertainment Industry Research Directions and Inspirations," at the Fraunhofer Institute for Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany.

22 October 97: "Modeling and Simulation: Linking Entertainment & Defense," at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

10 October 1997: "NPSNET - Large-Scale Virtual Environment Technology Testbed," Brown University.

31 July 97: "Modeling and Simulation: Linking Entertainment & Defense," at the Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA.

21 July 97: Zyda/Brutzman "At least ten unsolved problems in networking large-scale virtual environments (LSVEs)," presented at the Tele-Immersion Workshop, held at Advanced Networks & Services, Armonk, NY.

28 April 97: "Modeling and Simulation: Linking Entertainment & Defense," at the 1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Providence, RI.

26 March 97: "Modeling and Simulation: Competitiveness through Collaboration," at the High Performance Computing and Communications Council Conference, Newport, RI.

22 January 1997: "NPSNET: Inserting the Human into the Networked Synthetic Environment," DARPA Program Review, Medicine Meets VR Conference. Video clip used for presentation.

21 January 1997: "Building a National Research & Education Program in Virtual Reality," ECE Department, University of California, San Diego. Video clip used for presentation.

1 October 1996: "NPSNET - Large-Scale Virtual Environment Testbed," ONR Program Review.