Joint DCACM, DCSIGADA, DC_SIGGRAPH Meeting on Wednesday, June 10th

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Posted By: RobertoOrtiz
Post Time: 06-01-2009 at 12:36 PM
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All,

DC_SIGGRAPH's next meeting will be a joint event with DC ACM and DC SIGADA with support from the Washington Academy of Sciences. RSVP to dc_siggraph@mail.com if you are planning to attend so I can get a head count from our chapter.

When: Wednesday, June 10th, 7:30pm to 9:00pm

Where: American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2nd Floor Conference Room
1200 New York Avenue NW
(entrance is on 12th Street)

Near metro center

Speaker: William Glascoe with contributions by Dr. Nicholas Polys

Topic: Lifegraphs for Mobile Mirror Worlds: Linking Supply, Value, and Customer Chains


Have you wondered why record and bookkeeping has not been automated for all of us? From the moment a legal or natural person is known to be on the way to last data generating event of its corpse. This talk examines lifegraphing (not life logging) in the context of the proliferation of 3D Computer-Aided everything, the payment card industry's infrastructure, the electronic health records mandate, geographical information systems, and electronic data interchange standards. To fully understand the conceptualization of lifegraphs, a 100-yr story of a person born in the year 2000 is use to explain what lifegraphs are (aren't) and how they may change the chains between government, corporations and citizens who come live by them. William Glacoe will
conduct most of the talk, but a small presentation will also be provided by Dr. Nicholas Polys.


Speaker Bio:

William Glascoe is a Project Manager in the Logistics & Supply Chain Management subpractice of CSC's Federal Consulting Practice and an Air
Force Reserves' Lieutenant Colonel at the National Security Space Office. He recently won a CSC Leading Edge Forum Grant to investigate extensible 3D (X3D) for Enterprise Applications, which yielded the idea of lifegraphs as he defines them.


William is a certified Project Management Professional and recently returned from a year long assignment in Baghdad where he managed business planning projects for the DoD Task Force to Improve Business and Stability Operations in Iraq. He was a Software Risk Manager at the Office of Naval Research's Best Manufacturing Practices Center of Excellence in College Park, MD during 2007. Between 1996 and 1999, he was the Chief, Software Integration and Test in a classified System Program Office during his third Air Force active duty assignment. He is a certificate holder of the Air Force Institute of Technology's Software Professional Development Program.


William holds a BS Physics, Applied from the USAF Academy, MS Telecommunications, CU Boulder and a Certificate of Completion, International Space University (1999 Summer Session Program, Khorat, Thailand)


Special Guest:


Dr. Nicholas Polys heads the VT-ARC Visualization Group. He has developed interactive 3D graphic content and systems for over 9 years. His research interests lie at the heart of Human Computer Interaction: the intersection of visualization, virtual environments, and perception.


After his undergraduate research in Cognitive Science at Vassar College (1996), he jumped into the networked information space of the WWW developing audio, visual, and 3D assets and software. His doctoral work at Virginia Tech (2006) examined perceptual cues and layout behaviors for Information-Rich Virtual Environments for desktop to immersive platforms.


As a co-author of the international standard Extensible 3D (X3D) and Director of the Web3D Consortium, he is the author of numerous
peer-reviewed papers, tutorials, and workshops. Currently, Nicholas is a researcher for Virginia Tech Research Computing building information architectures and user interfaces for computational scientists.

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