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Andries Van Dam is the founder of the Computer Science
department for Brown University. He earned a masters and a doctorate
from the University of Pennsylvania in the engineering sciences. His
research is primarily concerned with computer graphics, text processing and
hypermedia systems. He has also worked for over thirty years
developing systems for creating and reading electronic books for use in
education and research. Andries Van Dam is committed to developing
better user interfaces, remarking that the traditional GUI has not
progressed much beyond the original design by Xerox PARC. Dr. Van
Dam's current research is immersive virtual reality. Current display
technology lacks the ability to give the user an adequate visual model for
tasks like modeling large-scale molecular nanostructures. Spatially
immersive display technology surrounds the user in computer-generated
environments responsive to the user's actions, orientation and perspective. |
