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Decade Douglas Trumbull 12 20 Information & Communication Technology March 2 Defining t h e Next Decade Creative Technology Keynote Speaker Designer Douglas Filmmaker Trumbull Inventor Entrepreneur Information Technology PROGRAM Dear Participants, Welcome! To the Information & Communication Technology Summit 2012. Forward thinking and innovative ideas are called for. We want to help create an academic environment that not only addresses the needs of our students now, but considers new ways of collaboration and envisioning that are open to us. We cannot build a better tomorrow alone. Through this ICT Summit, we have the opportunity to come together and meet the challenge to visualize and plan how we can use current developments in technology and plan for technical advances that react and respond to our needs, based on pedagogy and content. Collaboratively we, as a community, can place ourselves to be a forerunner of new ideas and technologies rather than simply following or matching the standards of the day. Thank you for attending the ICT Summit 2012. Regards, Patricia Galvis-Assmus 1 Schedule Coffee & Digital Inferno review: Students, faculty & AM 8:30 researchers share current and future IT related projects 9:00 Welcome - Patricia Galvis Assmus, IT Program Director Overview and Intro. to the Day: by Carol Barr, 9:15 Vice Provost Undergraduate & Continuing Education 9:30 Digital Inferno 9:50 Organize Working Groups 10:00 Working Session - Discussions Groups 10:30 Discussion Results 11:00 Break Open Education Initiative (OEI): 11:10 Presentation and announcement of recipients. 11:15 OEI Library Support Team 11:35 New Initiatives on Campus 12:00 Lunch PM Copyright and Faculty Rights Webinar (Dukes Room): 1:00 The challenges and solutions of applying copyright law in your classrooms, research and scholarly publications. Digital Inferno (Ballroom): 1:00 Defining the Next Decade Discussion 2:15 Overview and introduction of Keynote Speaker 2:30 Keynote Speaker: Douglas Trumbull 3:30 Q&A: Douglas Trumbull 4:00 Reception for attendees Your Role Participate in working Explore current & Enjoy keynote and groups to discuss & new technology in guest speakers with the define the next decade. pedagogy and research. 5 College community. Celebrate the anniversary of the interdisciplinary IT program. 2 Keynote Speaker Douglas Trumbull Visionary and attractions filmmaker, and has been innovator & awarded twenty entrepreneur, patents, including Douglas one for the first Trumbull has entertainment enjoyed a long and simulator ride (Back prestigious technological and to the Future – The Ride at creative career in filmmaking. Universal Studios) and another Trumbull’s early career included for the Academy Award-winning pioneering work in 1968 as one of Showscan® process for high speed four effects supervisors in 2001: 70 mm cinematography. His most A Space Odyssey. He subsequently recent simulation ride development influenced movie goers around the effort was the Secrets of the Luxor world with stunning visual effects Pyramid for Luxor, Las Vegas. in films such as The Andromeda Trumbull has been the Strain, Close Encounters of the Third recipient of the American Society Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, of Cinematographer’s Lifetime and Blade Runner. In addition, Achievement Award, and has Trumbull directed the feature films recently been selected by his peers Silent Running and Brainstorm. as an honorary member of the He has directed numerous Expo Visual Effects Society (only the fifth and special venue films, videos to receive this distinction). 3 television pilot for Disney Studios. For the pilot, EDW created a unique virtual world based upon the famous Winnie the Pooh children’s book, populated it with puppeted versions of the Pooh characters, and produced it employing virtual sets, motion control cameras, and real time compositing techniques. Subsequent to the pilot, 52 Trumbull on the minatures set of Bladerunner, 1982. episodes of the endearing classic were produced, titled Douglas Trumbull’s THE BOOK OF POOH. endeavor, the Entertainment In 2000 Trumbull sold his Design Workshop (EDW), a facility to the Visionaries Institute privately-owned company was of Suffolk University, where they founded in 1997 as a leading-edge provide the world’s only graduate creative design firm specializing program in philanthropic media. in the development of advanced Trumbull recently formed Trumbull integrated systems for high- resolution digital production utilizing virtual sets. EDW completed work on a high profile virtual set 4 Trumbull, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Ventures LLC to apply digital technologies to productions he will produce and direct. Trumbull is presently developing the next generation of virtual set technology, in preparation for IMAX Theater feature film quality, IMAX, IMAX 3D, HDTV, and other media such as computer games. In December 2011 Trumbull received the Nicola Tesla A still image from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Award from the International Gordon E. Sawyer Academy Award Press Academy’s Satellite Awards, from the Academy of Motion and he is receiving the George Picture Arts and Sciences. Melies Award in 2012 from the Find out more at: Visual Effects Society as well as the www.douglastrumbull.com 5 Achievements Films Patents 2001: A Space Odyssey 360 Degree Projection / Photography Blade Runner Capsule Simulator Brainstorm Compact Simulator Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Frame Rate Conversion Secrets Of The Luxor Pyramid - Trilogy High Frequency Injection Silent Running Multiple Row Simulator Ride Star Trek - The Motion Picture Orthogonal Motion Base The Andromeda Strain Retinal Display System To The Moon And Beyond Robot Controller Businesses Showscan Simulator Ride Berkshire Motion Picture Virtual Set System Entertainment Design Workshop Zero Gravity Boom Film Research Workshop Future General Corporation Media Technology Magnetar Productions LLC 65mm Film The Trumbull Company IMAX Trumbull Productions Incorporated IMAX 3D Trumbull Ventures LLC Showscan Robot Controller Vistavision Showscan Simulator Ride Virtual Set System Zero Gravity Boom Entrepenourial Invention A BP Spill prototype for a solution to the Gulf Oil Crisis 6 Digital Inferno The Digital Inferno session will allow IT practitioners from around the Pioneer Valley to give a brief introduction to their projects. Abacus Researcher: Digital Close Reading: Patricia Galvis-Assmus TEI for Undergraduates Center for Research in Art & Technology Katherine Singer Department of Art, Architecture Department of English, & Art History, UMass Amherst Mt. Holyoke College Real-time collaborative video editing TEI digital edition of Melesina via mobile devices. Trench’s “Laura’s Dream; or the Moonlanders,” perhaps the Computer Competency first science fiction text written Certification by a woman. Presenter: Birdie Champ Discover Text Researcher: IT Program Information Technology Program Stuart Shulman Department of Pol Sci, UMass Amherst Provost Office, UMass Amherst DiscoverText is a commercial An initiative to equip students with software solution developed at computing fundamentals ranging UMass Amherst for collaborative, from rebuilding a computer to easy-to-use text analytics. This copyright issues. URL: cccumass.us project will demonstrate how this software empowers university Construct an Arthropod researchers, government agencies, Matthew Mattingly and large Fortune 100 corporations Center for Educational Software to organize and extract insight from Development, UMass Amherst unstructured text. Interactive web quiz/game. Select virtual body parts, attach, get Holyoke Hgh Performance feedback on your knowledge Computing Center of bug morphology. URL: www.cesd.umass.edu/arthropods/ Dave Hart CESD*, UMass Amherst Collaboration with teachers in Holyoke and Springfield Community College to take advantage of the new high performance computing center being built in Holyoke, MA. -cont. page8 7 Digital Inferno Human Patient Simulation Mapping, photo, story, and Joan Roche, Karen Plotkin, Erin data mashups Lamoureux, Clare Lamontagne, Matthew Mattingly Elizabeth Henneman, and CESD*, UMass Amherst Helene Cunningham Two related projects: Water quality School of Nursing, UMass Amherst on Conneticut River river; Virtual Using Human Patient Simulation tours of the Conneticut River. Technology to Educate Nursing URL: www.cesd.umass.edu/twi/TWI_ Students to Address Patient Safety Projects/Water_Quality_Monitoring/ URL: https://udrive.oit.umass. index.html edu/simlab/Faculty_Simulation_ Information/Faculty_Simulation_ Pompeii Quadriporticus Training_Information/ Project and Pompeiana Sim_Videos_To_Preview/Student_ Eric Poehler Faculty_Intro_SimEnvironmentFinalWeb. mp4 Department of Classics, UMass Amherst Cutting edge technologies to definitive study of one of the largest Interactive Maps/ Timelines and most important monumental Matthew Mattingly buildings in Pompeii. CESD*, UMass Amherst URL: www.umass.edu/classics/PQP.htm & Witchcraft history. Also has other beta.pompeiana.org/ projects using similar tools, e.g Springfield Armory history, Florence SeeTrees (MA) walking tours. Matthew Mattingly CESD*, UMass Amherst Learning Lab for Resiliency Help students in Botany and related Don Blair & Stephanie Jo Kent fields learn how to observe and iden- Department of Physics, UMass Amherst tify plants in the field by providing an Discourse tracking and analysis online environment where they can tool for real time textual data with record observations, access informa- a prototype visualization of the tion and interact
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