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| Justin Binns binns@mcs.anl.gov
is a recent graduate from Northern Illinois University with a BS degree in Computer
Science. His primary responsibilities within the Futures Laboratory include systems
administration tasks such as computer maintenance and network administration for the
group. His current research interests include virtual reality interfaces and the
visualization of complex logical systems.
Thomas Brown tbrown@mcs.anl.gov spent
his undergraduate years at Southern Illinois University
earning a BFA, concentrating on casting sculpture. He then continued his education
pursuing a MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago
and got involved with the Electronic Visualization
Laboratory. After spending three years at SPSS as
Webmaster, he is currently involved in researching techniques needed to get various
file formats into the CAVE. Lisa Childers childers@mcs.anl.gov is a member of the
Future's Lab technical staff in the Mathematics and Computer Sciences Division at Argonne
National Laboratory. Her main research interests are in wide-area group collaboration and
multimedia servers. Prior to Argonne, Lisa worked for a commercial software
developer for 15 years. Her undergraduate years were spent attending the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Terry L. Disz disz@mcs.anl.gov is graduate of the Electronic
Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Terry is a member of
the staff of the Math and Computer Science division at Argonne National Laboratory. He is
leading the division's efforts in the areas of advanced scientific visualization and
virtual environments. His current research interest is in the area of sharing virtual
spaces. He is currently engaged in projects investigating CAVE shared experiences and
distributed collaborative environments. Mary Fritsch fritsch@mcs.anl.gov.
Mary's primary focus involves all aspects of research collection,
collaboration activities, development of FL and MCS outreach materials,
conference management, design of technical MCS websites, and focus on MCS
special promotions and events. She also works closely with the
members of the Futures Laboratory of MCS in connection with their current
project needs as well. She
maintains various websites for division and is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree
in Computer Science at Benedictine University. Mark Hereld hereld@mcs.anl.gov. I develop
technologies for high performance visualization and interactive virtual reality systems: a
design study for a petaflop computer, a distributed terabyte storage system, large format
high resolution display systems, distributed and parallel rendering, and a framework for
distributed collaborations. In the past, I have built gravity wave detectors, designed
infrared imaging instruments, carried telescopes to the South Pole, and been to Jupiter,
more or less in that order. [ed.: Opinions are those of the author and are not wholly
endorsed by the rest of the world.] Randy Hudson hudson@mcs.anl.gov is a Senior Research
Consultant in the ASCI Flash Center at the University of Chicago. He has been a member of
the Futures Lab since its inception in 1994. He has a B.A. in mathematics from Grand
Valley State University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at
Chicago. He spends most of his time doing research in immersive volume rendering. Ivan Judson judson@mcs.anl.gov is graduate of the
Northeastern University and is a member of the staff of the Math and Computer Science
division at Argonne National Laboratory. His current research includes the design and
prototyping of next generation workspaces. He is currently engaged in projects developing
a large format, very high resolution display device, the ActiveMural, and in prototyping
the next generation office, StationOne. He is also working system design and application
performance studies for petaflop computing. Robert Olson olson@mcs.anl.gov is a member of the technical staff
in the Mathematics and Computer Science division at Argonne National Laboratory. His main
research interest is currently computer-aided collaboration in general and in the
construction of high-performance media servers in particular. He is a graduate of the
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Michael Papka papka@mcs.anl.gov received a B.S. in physics from
Northern Illinois University in 1990, then continued masters studies in physics for
another year while working as a research assistant at Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory. He received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1994
from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Since 1990 he has held various research
assistantships within the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National
Laboratory. He is now a staff member at Argonne doing research in experimental virtual
reality, collaborative science, and multimedia as applied to high performance computing.
He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago in the Department of Computer
Science. Joe Paris paris@mcs.anl.gov Rick Stevens stevens@mcs.anl.gov is Division Director of the
Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director of
Physical, Biological, and Computing Sciences, and Director of the High-Performance
Computing and Communications program at Argonne National Laboratory. He is also the
leader of the Argonne Computing and Communications Infrastructures Futures Laboratory, an
effort to develop multimedia collaborative environments, virtual reality, and advanced
networking. Stevens is also a principal investigator in three Grand Challenge
projects in computational chemistry, computational biophysics, and astrophysics.
Professional activities include membership on the executive committee for the Scalable I/O
Initiative and the NSF-funded Center for Research in Parallel Computation; the technical
advisory board for IBM's Highly Parallel Supercomputing Laboratory; and the Energy
Sciences Networking Steering Committee. He regularly serves on conference program
committees and site evaluation committees.
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