Distributed Interactive Simulation DIS-Java-VRML Working Group
People

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• Bill Bohman is an attack helicopter pilot for the army, sometimes. When not otherwised involved flying he enjoys attacking simple programming problems with terribly complex, over-complicated and generally obtuse code. Bill wrote the helicopter control panel.

• Don Brutzman is an assistant professor at the Naval Postgraduate School where his office often vies for the title of "least tidy." He maintains the web pages you're looking at. He can be reached at brutzman@nps.navy.mil and his home page is at web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman

• Justin Couch can be reached at jtc@sg.adisys.com.au and his home page is at www.vlc.com.au/~justin/. He has perhaps written more Java code in combination with VRML than anyone on the planet. This is particularly difficult since his code is produced in Australia and is therefore upside down. Justin is coauthor (with Bernie Roehl, Cindy Reed-Ballreich, Tim Rohaly and Geoff Brown) of Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java. Information about the book is available at ece.uwaterloo.ca/~broehl/vrml/lnvj/

• Mike Dickson (mailto:Dickson@cs.nps.navy.mil) is a MOVES graduate of NPS who, together with Kim Roddy, wrote a thesis dealing with modeling human and organizational behavior using agents. As part of their thesis, they added the ability to select agent-driven entities in the Capture the Flag demo. Their agent design includes the ability to self-organize into squads that always include one defensive tank as long as their are two or more agent tanks created.

• Christophe Diot (Christophe.Diot@sophia.inria.fr) (ACM '94) received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from INP Grenoble, France, in 1991. He is a research scientist in the RODEO project at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, working on new architectures for communication subsystems. His research activity currently focuses on various aspects of group communication (group management, naming and addressing, congestion control) related to the design of large-scale multiuser applications on the Internet. More detailed information can be found at www.inria.fr/rodeo

• Ronan Fauglas received his bachelor's degree in 1997 from l'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris France. His thesis work was "Protocoles en support aux applications multimédia réparties, et Mondes virtuels repartis" ("Protocols in support of distributed multimedia apllications and distributed virtual worlds"). Ronan's research interests include open systems, research protocols (particularly IP multicast transport) and virtual reality. While studying at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School for three months, he formalized and greatly extended the DIS-Java-VRML (DJV) documentation using Javadoc. He is also investigated available packages and methodogies for DJV software version control.

• David Holland (dhollan2@gmu.edu) is a graduate student in the Computer Science department at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. His current research focus is the intersection between networked communications and computer graphics. He has a liberal arts BA from Stanford University, and has worked as a consultant as well as a game programmer at a software startup company. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening and getting further acquainted with the exercise bike at GMU's fitness center.

• Mark Jean runs a networked simulation sweatshop in San Jose. He can be reached at mjean@alturus.com

• Mike McCarthy was an NPS thesis student building a DIS-Java-VRML testbed running on Linux machines. The goal of this thesis was to begin running a global MBone exercise that sends out multicast PDUs for a fun round-the-clock simulation which people can join via web browsers. We expect this work to support efforts of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Large-Scale Multicast Applications (LSMA) working group. Mike left to join some upstart startup named Netscape. We still hope he comes back some weekend to finish the job...

• Don McGregor mcgredo@cs.nps.navy.mil is some guy who wandered in off the street. Nobody really knew what to do with him, so he was made working group co-chair. His home page is at www.npsnet.org/~mcgredo. He also has been known to inflict DEVO on those near his office. He's thinking about getting a subwoofer to increase the range of his office stereo. Those near him are thinking of violence.

• Chet Murphy is the owner of Modelworks Software where he is developing Java and VRML tools. In his former life he worked as an advisor to the U.S. government in areas related large scale simulation. Chet can be reached at cmurphy@modelworks.com. His home page is www.modelworks.com

• Michael Myjak mmyjak@virtualworkshop.com is building his own startup company, called The Virtual Workshop, following a successful tour as Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Simulation and Training, located at the University of Central Florida. His research interests include the development of a reliable multicast transport, time and network management, as well as infrastructure support services for distributed applications (e.g., simulation, telepresence operations, etc.). Mr. Myjak chairs the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) Large Scale Multicast Application (LSMA) working group (www.ietf.org). He is active in the development of the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) where he chairs the Runtime Infrastructure Interoperability Study Group (www.sisostds.org). Mr. Myjak was also recently elected to the SISO Standards Activity Committee (SAC) in SISO.

• Dr. Mark Pullen, Associate Professor of Computer Science and at George Mason University, holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from West Virginia University, and the Doctor of Science in Computer Science from the George Washington University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and a Fellow of the IEEE. Dr. Pullen teaches courses in computer networking, and has active research in networking for distributed virtual simulation and networked multimedia tools for distance education. Dr. Pullen recently received the IEEE's Harry Diamond Memorial Award for his work in networking for distributed simulation.
  His e-mail address is mpullen@bacon.gmu.edu. and home page is bacon.gmu.edu/~mpullen/.

• Kim Roddy (Kim@Roddy.net) is a MOVES graduate of NPS who, together with Mike Dickson, wrote a thesis dealing with modeling human and organizational behavior using agents. As part of their thesis, they added the ability to select agent-driven entities in the Capture the Flag demo. Their agent design includes the ability to self-organize into squads that always include one defensive tank as long as their are two or more agent tanks created.

• Marlon L. Smith (smithml@cs.nps.navy.mil) is an NPS student in the Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES) curriculum. As one of Don Brutzman's CS4472 group working on the "Capture the Flag" DIS-Java-VRML project, he is incorporating the Fort Irwin terrain and associated entities' movement over the terrain. Continuing work includes additional buildings and entity-to-building collision detection.

• Chris Thorne is yet another WG technical co-chair; his email address is chris@ccis.adisys.com.au. Chris runs a small Java-VRML (+DIS) prototyping project at ADI's (Australian Defence Industries) CCIS (Command and Control Information Systems) group in Perth, Western Australia. He also runs around doing a whole lot of other stuff that commercial organisations ask senior bods to do but which have nothing to do with interesting stuff like VRML. His non-VRML interests include family, music (learning keyboard), computer graphics - particularly texture mapping, game playing (role-play, board games, play-by-mail, sport, ... any games!) and chocolate.

• Julian Williams has a BSEE from Old Dominion University in Norfolk VA, a BS from Hampton University in Hampton VA and now a MS in Computer Science. As you know I am an Army Officer in the Signal Corps. He is assigned to the Joint Simulation System (JSIMS) Joint Program Office in Orlando Florida as the Assistant Project Officer for JSIMS Operations. He works mainly with the Core Infrastructure working group and the C⁴I External Interfaces working group. He rewrote the multicast relay client/server code. He can be reached at julian_williams@jsims.mil.