Don Brutzman Undersea Warfare + MOVES Naval Postgraduate School Monterey California USA Blurb, Biography, Curriculum Vitae brutzman at nps.edu brutzman at nps.navy.mil Research    Organizations    Courses    Conferences

Research Projects and Working Groups

• Book: X3D: Extensible 3D Graphics for Web Authors by Don Brutzman and Len Daly, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Elsevier, April 2007, 468 pages.
  • X3dGraphics.com provides X3D example scenes, chapter slidesets, and course video lessons for learning X3D
  • Online course for enrolled NPS and distance-learning students
• X3D:  Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics and Web3D Consortium
  • X3D-Edit 3.3 open-source Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics authoring tool
  • X3D Resources, X3D Tooltips, X3D Specifications and X3D Scene Authoring Hints
  • X3D Examples, X3D Validator, X3D CAD, Geospatial X3D, X3D + HTML5 and X3D Showcase DVD
  • Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture Community Group
• Network Optional Warfare (NOW) including Efficient Messaging, Optical Signaling, Semantic Coherence and Blog
• Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle (AUV) Workbench and Autonomous Vehicle Control Language (AVCL)
  • Dissertation: "Virtual World for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle"
    
  • Center for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Research
• CRUSER: Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (calendar)
  • robodata project and Joint Interoperability Field Experimentation (JIFX)
• Savage: Scenario Authoring and Visualization for Advanced Graphical Environments
  • Savage and Savage Defense X3D model archives
  • Savage Developers, Savage Subversion, Savage Jenkins continuous build server, Savage Chat, and NPS branch of Xj3D
  • SavageDefense Developers, SavageDefense Subversion, and SavageDefense Jenkins continuous build server, For Official Use Only (FOUO)
  • SAVAGE Modeling and Analysis Language (SMAL)
• ASW: Community of Interest (COI) Data Management Working Group (DMWG) wiki, mailing list (members only, formerly usw-xml Working Group)
• Mailing lists and Bugzilla issue tracker
• Extensible Modeling and Simulation Framework (XMSF) and XMSF Issue Tracker for bugs
• Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Group for XML binary compression and performance
• Open-DIS open-source implementation of the IEEE Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) Protocol
• Currently available thesis projects
  
• virtual reality transfer protocol (vrtp)
  
• dis-java-vrml Working Group
  
• Kelp forest exhibit modeling project
  
• Recursive Ray Acoustics (RRA) sonar visualization
  
• MMOWGLI: Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet crowd-source brainstorming game for piracy, energy and other topics

Organizations

• Camp S.E.A. Lab Monterey Bay
  
• Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)
  • Internet2 and NPS
    
  • Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES) Institute
  • Undersea Warfare (USW)
    
• Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO)
  
• Web3D Consortium (plus Event Calendar)
  
• Web-Enabled Modeling and Simulation (WebSim) Partnership: Object Management Group (OMG), OpenGIS, SISO and Web3D
  
• World Wide Consortium for the Grid (W2COG) Institute
  
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  

Courses

• Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics authoring
  
• Extensible Markup Language (XML) programming
  
• Hamming: Learning to Learn Online Video Archive, final-draft book chapters (published with permission), video podcast, mailing list, NPS Sakai course, and course history
  
• SIGGRAPH Online 2001 and SIGGRAPH Online 2002
  including Fred Brooks Turing Award Lecture
• Java data structures & programming
  
• perl programming
  

Conferences

• Recent
• • Maritime Risk Symposium (MRS2024), 10-13 June 2024, NPS Monterey California USA.
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• Past
• • Web3D 2016 Conference, 22-24 July 2016, Anaheim California USA. The premier annual event for X3D Graphics.
  • SIGGRAPH 2016 is co-located with (and immediately follows) Web3D 2016, 24-28 July 2016.
  • NDIA Clambake, 22-24 September 2014, Groton Connecticut. National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) conference on Joint Undersea Warfare Technologyv.
  • Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST), 21-25 August 2013, Portsmouth New Hampshire. The premier event for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).
  • Unmanned Untethered Submersibles Technology (UUST) Symposium, 21-24 August 2011, Portsmouth New Hampshire. Am giving a tutorial on the AUV Workbench on Sunday 21 August in afternoon.
  • Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles (AUV) Conference, 1-3 September 2010, sponsored by IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES), hosted by MBARI and NPS, Monterey California.
  • 14th International IEEE/ACM Symposium on Distributed Simulation for Real-Time Applications (DS-RT), 17 October 2010, George Mason University (GMU), Fairfax Virginia. Provided tutorial on Open DIS and X3D Web Visualization.
  • MOVES Open House,  July 2009, NPS Monterey California.
  • AUV Fest 2008, 12-23 May 2008, Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), Newport Rhode Island.
  • Fifth Maritime Security Workshop 2007, Globalization: Policy and Technology, 4-7 December 2007, Singapore. Hosted by Temasek Defense Science Institute (TDSI), NPS, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). There is also a tdsi-collaborators mailing list.
  • Each year, you are invited to see us at Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation & Education Conference (I/ITSEC), 26-29 November 2007, Orlando Florida. The NPS MOVES team will be at booth 1171.
  • Unmanned Untethered Submersibles Technology (UUST) Symposium, 19-22 August 2007, Durham New Hampshire.
  • International Maritime Protection Symposium 2005, 12-14 December 2005, Honolulu Hawaii.
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• Modeling & Simulation
• • MOVES Open House, 15-17 August 2005, NPS Monterey California
  • 2005 SISO Spring Interoperability Workshop (SIW), 3-8 April 2005, San Diego California USA
  • MOVES Open House, 23-26 August 2004, NPS Monterey California
  • Web-Enabled Modeling & Simulation (WebSim) 2004, 12-15 October 2004, Arlington, Washington DC
  • Web-Enabled Modeling & Simulation (WebSim) 2003, 27-30 October 2003, Reston Virginia
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• 3D Graphics & Networking
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  • Web3D 2015 Conference, 18-21 June 2015, Heraklion Crete Greece. The premier annual event for X3D Graphics.
  • Web3D 2014 Conference, 8-10 August 2014, Vancouver Canada. The premier annual event for X3D Graphics, colocated with (and immediately prior to) SIGGRAPH.
  • SIGGRAPH 2014, 11-14 August 2014, Vancouver Canada. Computer graphics and human interaction, includes numerous events and meetings regarding X3D Graphics.
  • SIGGRAPH 2013, 21-25 July 2013, Anaheim California. Includes numerous events and meetings regarding X3D Graphics.
  • Web3D 2012 Conference, 5-6 August 2012, Los Angeles California. The premier annual event for X3D Graphics.
  • Web3D 2011 Conference, 20-22 June 2011, Paris France
  • SIGGRAPH, 7-11 August 2011, Vancouver Canada. Includes numerous events and meetings regarding X3D Graphics.
  • Federal Consortium of Virtual Worlds (FCVW), 11-13 May 2011, National Defense University (NDU), Fort McNair, Washington DC.
  • Web3D 2009 Symposium, 15-17 June 2009 at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany
  • SIGGRAPH 2009, 3-7 August 2009, New Orleans Louisiana.
  • Eurographics 2008 Conference, 14-18 April 2008, Crete, Greece. Tutorial program includes presentation with Craig Anslow: T5: Interactive Introduction to X3D Graphics.
  • Stanford Metaverse Roadmap, 15 February 2008, Stanford University, Palo Alto California.
  • Web3D 2007 Symposium, 18-21 April 2007 Peruggia Italy.
  • Web3D 2006 Symposium, 18-21 April 2006 Columbia Maryland USA.
  • Web3D 2005 Symposium, 29 March - 1 April 2005, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom (UK)
  • Web3D 2004 Symposium, 5-8 April 2004, Monterey California USA
  • NASA Virtual Iron Bird Workshop, 31 March 2004 Moffett Field CA and 2 April 2004 NPS
  • Web3D 2003 Symposium, St. Malo, France
  • Web3D/VRML 2002 Symposium, Tempe Arizona USA
    
  • Web3D/VRML 2001 Symposium, Paderborn Germany
    
  • Web3D/VRML 2000 Symposium, Monterey California USA
    
  • Web3D/VRML 1999 Symposium, Paderborn Germany
    
  • VRML 98 Symposium, Monterey California USA
    
  • VRML 97 Symposium, Monterey California USA
    
  • Web3D RoundUP, organized by Timothy Childs
  • 3D on the Web & Beyond by the Acacia Research Group, 16-17 OCT 2002, San Jose California
  • SIGGRAPH 2004, 9-12 August 2004, Los Angeles California
  • SIGGRAPH 2003 including X3D-Edit QuickTake in Educator's program (Pedagogical Sketches)
  • SIGGRAPH 2002 and SIGGRAPH 2002 Online, July 21-26 San Antonio Texas
    
  • SIGGRAPH 2001 and SIGGRAPH 2001 Online, August 12-17 Los Angeles California
  • Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), December 20-22 1999, University College London UK
    
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• Undersea Robotics and Undersea Warfare
• • Underwater Systems, 19-20 April 2004, The Hatton, London, United Kingdom
  • Undersea Human/Systems Integration Symposium, 3-5 May 2004, Newport Rhode Island USA
  • Mine Warfare Symposium, 9-13 May 2004, NPS Monterey California
  • Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST), 23-26 August 2003, Durham New Hampshire.
  • Network-Centric Undersea Warfare (NCUW) Workshop 8-10 July 1998

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