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The People at GMU Responsible for
ScienceSpace People currently involved with the
project:
People who have been involved in the past:
Special thanks to...
Chris Dede photo Chris is a Full Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he has a joint appointment in the Graduate School of Education and the School of Information Technology & Engineering. His research interests span technology forecasting and assessment, emerging technologies for learning, and leadership in educational innovation. He was the Editor of the 1998 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Yearbook, Learning with Technology. He currently has grants from the National Science Foundation to develop educational environments based on virtual reality technology, from the Joyce Foundation to aid urban school districts in using technology, and from the U.S. Department of Education to create and assess technology-based science education materials for learning disabled secondary students. Chris is also a core affiliate faculty member in GMU's Institute for Public Policy. He spent a year as a Policy Fellow in the Office of the Director, National Institute for Education. In the past four years, he has testified to Congress on learning technologies and served as an expert panelist on instructional technologies for U.S. AID, the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S. Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure, and the National Governors' Association. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Foundations of Educational and Psychological Assessment and of the U.S. Department of Education's Expert Panel on Technology. Chris has served as a Senior Program Director at the National Science Foundation. He has also been a Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at NASA's Johnson Space Center. His prior funded research includes work for the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, NASA, and Apple Computer. He is on the International Steering Committee for the Second International Technology in Education Study spanning approximately thirty countries. Chris has published many articles about his work. You can email Chris at CDEDE@gmu.edu. Jim Chen joined the Department of Computer Science, George Mason University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 1995. He was a Research Associate (Visual Systems Scientist) at the Institute for Simulation & Training, University of Central Florida and worked on graphical modeling and distributed interactive simulation for 6 years before he came to GMU. He has worked on robotics, artifical intelligence, computer education methodology, physical modeling, real-time animation, and networked virtual environments. His current research interests are in Physically-based Modeling, Real-time Simulation, Distributed Interactive Simulation, Information Visualization, and Virtual Reality. You can email Jim at JCHEN@cs.gmu.edu. Terri is a doctoral student in the Instructional Technology program at George Mason University. She is interested in the integration of technology in the classroom. Specifically, she is studying the contextual factors and learning theory that impacts the effective use of technology. In addition, she is exploring issues related to organizational learning that affect group dynamics and decision making in the school environment. As a graduate research assistant on Project ScienceSpace, Terri has been involved in the final phase of evaluation activities. This includes working with classroom teachers to develop instructional materials, and coordinating the delivery and monitoring of the VR systems in the classrooms. In addition, Terri is collecting and analyzing data related to student and teacher use of the VR systems. Terri has her Master of Education in Curriculum Development from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She worked as a classroom teacher in the Fairfax County Public Schools system before pursuing her degree on a full time basis. You can e-mail Terri at tsiggins@gmu.edu or visit her education portfolio. Xusheng is a doctoral student in Information Technology at George Mason University. He has been working as a system administrator for the Virtual Reality lab and the Computer Graphics Lab (SGI workstations) since he joined George Mason University in September of 1997. He wrote the source codes of the Newton World on SGI/O2 system, and also integrated the 3D sound system and haptic devices with the Maxwell World on SGI/ONYX. As a graduate research assistant on Computer Graphics, he is interested in Primitive Algorithms in Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Simulation and Information Visualization. Xusheng got his Master's degree and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Southwest Jiaotong University in China in 1986 and 1983. You can email Xusheng at xwang@galaxy.gmu.edu.
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