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 page updated July 27, 2002

Bill Riseman--spiritual founder, visionary, and pioneer in the use of CAD and virtual reality in the service of archaeology, education, and material culture preservation; designer, self-taught in the ways of computers, the Internet, VR technology, and future applications of new digital technologies; accidentally killed in 1994 along the coast of Rio De Janeiro, where he was presenting at an international VR conference.

Donald H. Sanders, President--professional degree in architecture, doctorate in archaeology, and nine years experience in information management and thesaurus construction; specializing in and has published about alternative methods of analyzing the ancient built environment, including the application of the techniques and theories of semiotics and environmental psychology; fifteen years of archaeological fieldwork experience in Greece, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.

(dsanders@learningsites.com)

Eben Gay, former President, ERG Engineering--has been building virtual worlds since 1982; has built worlds for museum exhibitions, classrooms, and tradeshow displays for SIGGRAPHs across the United States and from the Computer Museum in Boston to TEPIA in Japan; active in the Boston Computer Society's Virtual Reality Group and in the development of VRML to send virtual worlds across the Internet.

(eben.gay@learningsites.com)

Geoffrey Kornfeld--is a computer graphics artist, involved with computer graphics since 1991, first as a CAD draftsman and teacher, then as a 3D animation and visualization specialist; spent two years at Massachusetts College of Art studying ancient art extensively, receiving honors for his computer animation projects; an expert with 3DStudio Max, Adobe Photoshop, and HTML programming; currently expanding his knowledge of Maya. 

Richard C. Morse--received his degree in architecture from Roger Williams University, where he also studied art history; has worked as an architect and 3D modeler, taught CAD and 3D design, and has worked in CAD software development in the United States and Germany; co-author of "The Official DataCAD User's Guide."

 

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