Gloria Brown-Simmons

Gloria Brown-Simmons spoke at the Launch Event on Tuesday 7 November 1995, during Doors of Perception 3, Info-Eco.

Gloria Brown-Simmons is presently on assignment to the GLOBE Program at the White House in Washington DC, as manager for Visualization and Presentation Programs. She has also served as JPL visiting scientist to Central State University, where she developed the Center for Scientific Visualization Laboratory and enhanced the undergraduate curriculum with perceptual technologies. Her work includes processing of planetary data from the Galileo, Voyager and Viking missions; contributions to the Galileo Earth Rotation animation, Galileo Venus animation and Solar System animation, as well as a major visual representation of digital terrain models with associated multivariate data for the Digital Image Animation Group in a project that employed image processing and animation to depict the surface materials and subsurface seismic detail of the Colorado River region for analysis.

Ms. Brown-Simmons has held positions as artist in residence at the Harvard Smithsonian Observatory and Datacube, Inc.; research affiliate at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT and consultant at the Computer Aided Design Group, among others.

`Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment' is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. The GLOBE goals are to increase environmental awareness of individuals throughout the world and to contribute to a better scientific understanding of the earth.

Selected Exhibitions

• Interactive Communities, ACM SIGGRAPH `95, Los Angeles, CA 1995
• Electronic Theater Screening Room, ACM SIGGRAPH `92, Chicago, IL 1992
• International Geological Congress, Washington, DC 1989
• 3-D, Boston Museum of Science, Boston, MA 1983

Images Published

• ACM SIGGRAPH Technical slide Set 8/1991
• Scientific American 10/1990
• American Meteorological Society, Conference Proceedings 1/1989
• IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 9/1988
• ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings 8/1988

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