From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Bob Jacobson)
Subject: Re: U.S. Senate Hearing on Virtual Reality, Wednesday, May 8th
Date: Tue, 7 May 1991 08:01:56 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle



From: Michael Nelson <mnelson@nsf.gov>
 
        At 9:30 am, Wednesday, May 8, the Subcommittee on Science, Technology,
and Space of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
is holding a hearing on "New Developments in Computer Technology: Virtual
Reality."  Senator Gore, chairman of the Science Subcommittee will preside.
The hearing will be in Room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building.  In
addition, on May 8 and 9, there will be an on-going demonstration of the
VPL Research system in the Hart Senate Office Building.

Witnesses at the hearing:

Panel 1 -- The Potential of Virtual Reality

Jaron Lanier, President, VPL Research, Redwood City, CA
Fred Brooks, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of North Carolina,
  Chapel Hill, NC
Thomas Furness, Director, Human Interface Technology Center, Univ. of 
  Washington
 
Panel 2 -- The Federal Government's Role

Charles Brownstein, Acting Assistant Director for Computer and Information
  Sciences and Engineering, National Science Foundation
Lee Holcomb, NASA
 
(Not necessarily in order of appearance)

The hearing should run until 12:00 or so.

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