Professor Michael Zyda: a biography
Abstract
Michael Zyda is a
Professor in the
Department of Computer
Science at the Naval
Postgraduate School,
Monterey, California.
Professor Zyda is also the
Academic Associate and Chair of the NPS Modeling, Virtual
Environments and Simulation curriculum. He has been at NPS
since February of 1984. Professor Zyda's main focus in research is
in the area of computer graphics, specifically the development of
large-scale, networked 3D virtual environments. Professor Zyda
was a member of the National Research Council's Committee on
Virtual Reality Research and Development. Professor Zyda is the
chair of the National Research Council's Computer Science and
Telecommunications Board Committee on Modeling and
Simulation: Linking Entertainment & Defense. Professor Zyda is
also the Senior Editor for Virtual Environments for the MIT Press
quarterly PRESENCE, the journal of teleoperation and virtual
environments. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of
the journal Computers & Graphics. Professor Zyda is also a
member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Fraunhofer Center
for Research in Computer Graphics, Providence, Rhode Island.
Professor Zyda has been active with the Symposium on Interactive
3D Graphics and was the chair of the 1990 conference, held at
Snowbird, Utah and the chair of the 1995 Symposium, held in
Monterey, California. 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 BA in Bioengineering from the
University of California, San Diego in La Jolla in 1976, an MS in
Computer Science/Neurocybernetics from the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst in 1978 and a DSc in Computer Science
from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri in 1984.
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