Bruce M. Blumberg
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Synthetic Characters Group and MIT Media Lab, Assistant Professor
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- MIT Media Laboratory
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 Category: Jury Member:
Experience(s):
Type: [E-Tech]
(void*): A Cast of Characters
Organizer(s): [Blumberg]
Entry No.: [08]
[SIGGRAPH 1999]
Type: [E-Tech]
Swamped! Using Plush Toys to Direct Autonomous Animated Characters
Organizer(s): [Blumberg]
Entry No.: [11]
[SIGGRAPH 1998]
Experience Category Collaboration(s):
Type: [E-Tech]
ALIVE: An Artificial Life Interactive Video Environment
Organizer(s): [Maes]
Entry No.: [26]
[SIGGRAPH 1993]
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Imitation and Social Intelligence for Synthetic Characters Presenter(s): [Buchsbaum] [Blumberg]
[SIGGRAPH 2004]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Integrated learning for interactive synthetic characters Presenter(s): [Blumberg] [Downie] [Ivanov] [Berlin] [Johnson] [Tomlinson]
[SIGGRAPH 2002]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Low level intelligence for low level character animation Presenter(s): [Isla] [Blumberg]
[SIGGRAPH 2002]
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]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Distributed ALIVE Presenter(s): [Russell] [Blumberg] [Pentland] [Maes]
[SIGGRAPH 1996]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Visually Animated Characters Presenter(s): [Azarbayejani] [Blumberg] [Pentland]
[SIGGRAPH 1996]
Role(s):
- Course Presenter
- Emerging Technologies Collaborator
- Emerging Technologies Jury Member
- Emerging Technologies Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Technical Paper Presenter
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