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ZYDA
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Michael
J. Zyda is the Director of the Modeling, Virtual Environments
and Simulation (MOVES) Institute, located at the Naval Postgraduate
School (NPS), Monterey, California. He is also a Professor
in the Department of Computer Science at NPS. Since 1986,
he has been the Director of the NPSNET Research Group. Professor
Zyda's research interests include computer graphics, large-scale,
networked 3D virtual environments, agent-based simulation,
modeling human and organizational behavior, interactive computer-generated
story, computer-generated characters, video production, entertainment/defense
collaboration, and modeling and simulation. He is the principal
investigator of the America¹s Army PC game funded by
the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve
Affairs. Professor Zyda was a member of the National Research
Council's Committee on "Virtual Reality Research and
Development" and was the chair of the National Research
Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Committee
on "Modeling and Simulation: Linking Entertainment &
Defense". From that report, for the Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology, Professor
Zyda drafted the operating plan and research agenda for the
USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). Professor Zyda
began his career in Computer Graphics in 1973 as part of an
undergraduate research group, the Senses Bureau, at the University
of California, San Diego. Professor Zyda received a B.A .in
Bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego
in La Jolla in 1976, an M.S. in Computer Science/Neurocybernetics
from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1978 and
a D.Sc. in Computer Science from Washington University, St.
Louis, Missouri in 1984.
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