***Calendar of Events
Macromedia User Conference and People's Choice Awards
What: Macromedia International User Conference and Exhibition
When: October 8-10, 1997
Where: San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center
Macromedia has issued a call for entries in its annual "Made With
Macromedia People's Choice Awards" held in conjunction with the Macromedia
International User Conference and Exhibition. If selected, the works will
be showcased in the 1997 Made with Macromedia Gallery at the Macromedia
International User Conference and featured on the Macromedia Web Site.
Entries must be developed using one or more Macromedia products, and may
not have been completed before September 1, 1996. The deadline for entries
is June 10, 1997, and all entrants will be notified of their status by
September 1, 1997.
ucon.macromedia.com
Windows NT Solutions Intranet Solutions '97
When: Aug 11-15, 1997
Where: Moscone Center in San Francisco
With more than 300 exhibitors and 25,000 attendees, this conference will be
the venue for 1997's major Windows NT announcements and product launches.
The show will feature conferences, tutorials and exhibitions covering
critical issues for IS/networking pros including NT scalability,
clustering, NT administration, security, intranet solutions, and more.
Information: Catherine Palmen, Hamilton Group for SOFTBANKFORUMS WINTIS '97
phone: 408-268-6112
email: cpalmen@aol.com
Virtual Humans 2, Los Angeles, 6/17-19
When: June 17-19, 1997
Where: Universal City Hilton in Los Angeles
Virtual Humans 2 focuses on virtual humans living, working and playing in
virtual reality worlds, standing in for real individuals or carrying out
jobs that real people cannot do. The event promises to an important one in
this emerging 3D application. Key events at the conference include:
- Prof. David Farber's visionary Snow Crash panel initiative, which will
compare the state of the art in online virtual communities with Neal
Stephenson's benchmark novel.
- Virtual Tennis - the Thalmann's real-time version, followed by Digital
Domain's celebrated virtual Andre Agassi, presented by Andre Bustanoby, one
of the world's leading performance capture specialists.
- Industrial Light & Magic's latest and best character simulation work,
demonstrated and explained by top animator/designer Ellen Poon (whose
credits include Men in Black, The Mask, Disclosure, Jumanji, etc,).
- Televirtual will unveil their world-beating next generation technology,
which enables a virtual TV host to move amongst and interact closely with
the studio audience.
- Four of the leading vendors of industrial humanoids - Deneb, Genicom,
Transom and Tecmath - will put their ergonomic proteges through their most
demanding paces.
- Three interesting panels: Prof. Frank Biocca's panel - Communication
Needs for Virtual Humans; Prof. Lewis Johnson's panel - Virtual Humans as
Autonomous Agents; and Bernie Roehl's panel on Virtual Humans Standards.
- Other areas covered include: - virtual humans in games, teleconferencing,
military simulation, avatar worlds, historical reconstructions, and crowd
simulation for emergency planning.
- Linda Jacobson, SGI, will moderate the second day's events, and Ron
Fischer, also SGI, will run a Motion Capture workshop on day 3.
The registration fee for the full conference is $580 and $480 for
academics. Early registration fees for the full conference are $520 and
$420 for academics if paid before May 31.
KillerApp Communications
5670 Wilshire Blvd #2500,
Los Angeles, CA 90036.
(213)938-7600
Fax: (213)939-7211.
e-mail: ftekle@rmcpr.com.
Virtual Humans 2 Web site:
www.vrnews.com/vh2.html
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