Michael Capps
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 1999
Michael Capps is an instructor and Ph.D. candidate in the Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation curriculum at the Naval Postgraduate School. His most recent previous experience includes research at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, both in Cambridge, MA. His research involves techniques for optimization of networked graphics, and software engineering for interoperable shared virtual environments. Other interests include geometric reconstruction, collaborative computing, and hypertext protocols; he has published technical academic articles ranging across all of these topics. Michael organizes the highly successful annual “Systems Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality” workshop series, which is in its third year. He received honors in Mathematics and Creative Writing in his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina, and earned an MS in Computer Science there as well. Michael is also the founder and editor of the VR.EDU computer graphics education web-site. He has served on the organizing committee of several prominent academic conferences, including ACM Hypertext, CSCW, VRAIS, IEEE Virtual Reality, and the annual World Wide Web conference series, and is Technical Program Chair for VRML 2000.
Course Organizer:
- SIGGRAPH 1999, "Developing Shared Virtual Environments"
- SIGGRAPH 2000, "Developing Shared Virtual Environments"
- SIGGRAPH 2001, "Gaming Techniques for Designing Compelling Virtual Worlds"
- SIGGRAPH 2002, "Super-Size It! Scaling Up to Massive Virtual Worlds"
Learning Presentation(s):
Type: [Courses]
Super-Size It! Scaling Up to Massive Virtual Worlds Organizer(s): [Capps]
Presenter(s): [Capps] [McGregor] [Chenney] [Holmes] [Schell] [Teichmann] [Ulrich]
Entry No.: [35]
[SIGGRAPH 2002]
Type: [Courses]
Gaming Techniques for Designing Compelling Virtual Worlds Organizer(s): [Capps]
Presenter(s): [Capps] [Bernier] [Bleszinski] [Caudle] [Schell]
Entry No.: [16]
[SIGGRAPH 2001]
