Bruce Blumberg
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 2000
Bruce Blumberg, is an assistant professor and head of the Synthetic Characters Group at the Media lab of MIT. Bruce is a well known researcher in the area of autonomous animated characters focusing on the development of computational models of behavior, motivation, perception, emotion and adaptation inspired by work in animal behavior, psychology and artificial intelligence. His group is a frequent contributor to the interactive venues of Siggraph, including (void •): A Cast of Characters at Siggraph ’99, SWAMPED at Siggraph ’98, and ALIVE at Siggraph 95 and 93. He has a Master’s from the Sloan School at MIT and a B.A. from Amherst College. Prior to coming to the lab he held positions at Apple Computer Inc, and NeXT Inc.
Experience Jury Member:
Experience(s):

Type: [E-Tech]
(void*): A Cast of Characters
Organizer(s): [Blumberg]
Entry No.: [08]
[SIGGRAPH 1999]
Experience Collaboration(s):
Learning Presentation(s):

Type: [Courses]
Smart Animated Agents
Organizer(s): [Badler] [Funge]
Presenter(s): [Badler] [Funge] [Blumberg] [Cassell] [Rickel]
Entry No.: [24]
[SIGGRAPH 2000]

Type: [Courses]
Artificial Life for Graphics, Animation, Multimedia, and Virtual Reality
Organizer(s): [Terzopoulos]
Presenter(s): [Terzopoulos] [Blumberg] [Prusinkiewicz] [Reynolds] [Thalmann]
Entry No.: [22]
[SIGGRAPH 1998]

Type: [Courses]
Artificial Life for Graphics, Animation, Multimedia, and Virtual Reality
Organizer(s): [Terzopoulos]
Presenter(s): [Terzopoulos] [Blumberg] [Prusinkiewicz] [Reynolds] [Sims] [Thalmann]
Entry No.: [23]
[SIGGRAPH 1997]