About Bruce Brief bios and publicity images for Bruce Damer A BioLog (a biographical travelogue) since 1980 Bruce's Curriculum Vitae can be found below Bruce can deliver speaking and educational programs Bruce has been speaking extensively since 1995 Audio/video of Bruce's speeches Recent media coverage of Bruce's work Bruce has an online archive other writings and interviews Bruce has written and published a book Avatars! Roles Bruce is President and CEO of The Digital Space Commons Bruce is founder and co-director of the Contact Consortium Bruce is engaged in research and events with Biota.org Other stuff Bruce is Curator and co-founder of the DigiBarn Computer Museum Bruce is the caretaker of Ancient Oaks farm and garden near Santa Cruz Bruce has written just a little Poetry More pictures of Bruce Other Images of Bruce may be of interest There is an extensive Image Gallery of Bruce's recent projects and travels with Galen Brandt For more background on Bruce's prior work see the Elixir Story

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BRUCE DAMER - CV

President and CEO
DigitalSpace Corporation	Contact us
343 Soquel Avenue, Suite 70, Santa Cruz CA 95062 USA

Co-Director
Contact Consortium
PO Box 66866, Scotts Valley CA 95067-6866	Contact us

Corporate and Faculty Positions:

• President and CEO, DigitalSpace Corporation, 1995-present
• Founding Director, Contact Consortium, 1995-present
• Evangelist for Adobe Atmosphere, a new product line from Adobe Systems Incorporated, 2001-present
• Visiting Scholar, University of Washington Human Interface Technology Laboratory, 1998-present
• Vanguard of Visual Computing, Silicon Graphics, 1998
• Board of Directors, International Academy of Networked Arts and Technology, Madeira Portugal, 1998
• Visiting Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz, 1998
• Faculty, San Francisco State University, Multimedia Studies Program, 1997-98
• Faculty, Dept. of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, 1992-1994
• Chief Technologist, Elixir Technologies Corporation, 1987-1994
• Researcher, USC School of Engineering, 1985-87
• Research student, IBM Toronto Lab, visiting IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights NY, 1984.

Education:

• M.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering, 1986, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
• B.Sc., Computer Science 1984, University of Victoria, Victoria Canada.
• Manchester Guardian Diploma in International Government, University of London

Recent Publications:

1. All publications may be found on the web at: http://www.digitalspace.com/papers/index.html
2. Damer, B.F. Sierhuis, M, Clancey, B, Brodsky, B, Rasmussen, D, Nielsen, M, Boemers, R. NASA STTR, SBIR and USRA/RIACS project reports on BrahmsVE at http://www.digitalspace.com/projects/fmars 1999-2003
3. Damer, B.F., Gold, S., de Bruin, J., de Bruin, D., 'Conferences and Trade Shows in Inhabited Virtual Worlds: A Case Study of Avatars98 & 99'. Second International Conference, VW 2000, Paris, France, July 5-7, 2000 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, 2000: pp. 1-11.
4. Damer, B.F., Avatars, Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet, book, Addison-Wesley Longman/Peachpit Press, 1998
   
5. Heudin, J.C., Damer, B.F., Inhabited Virtual Worlds in Cyberspace and their Communities, book chapter in "Synthetic Worlds and Artificial Life", Addison Wesley Longman.
6. Damer, B.F., Marcelo, K., Revi, F., Nerve Garden, a Public Terrarium in Cyberspace, paper in "Virtual Worlds, First International Conference, VW '98, Paris, France, July 1998, Proceedings", Springer, J. C. Heudin, editor.
7. Damer, B.F., "Inhabited Virtual Worlds, a New Frontier for Interaction Design", article, ACM interactions, Sept-Oct 1996, pp. 27-35.
8. Damer, B.F., Kekenes, C., Hoffman, T., "Inhabited Digital Spaces", ACM CHI '96 Companion, pp. 9-10

Conferences Produced and Other Presentations:

• Produced Earth to Avatars, October 1996, The First Annual Conference of the Contact Consortium. Produced or co-chaired Avatars 97, Avatars98, Avatars99, Avatars2000, Avatars2001, Digital Burgess Digital Biota 2, Digital Biota 3, Digital Biota 4, and numerous other confeence, seminar and public speaking events.
• Recent conference presentations (chronological since 1995): 4^th Annual Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology 1995, CONTACT XII, NasFiC 1995, American Assn. of Anthropologists 1996, CONTACT XII, MediARTech 1996, CHI '96, VRML 97, CONTACT XIV, CHI '97, CFP '97, 3D Design, Waterside Publishing Conference, Virtual Humans II, SIGGRAPH 97, Digital Burgess, Avatars 97, User Interface 97, WebNet 97, Future World Cape Town RSA, CONTACT XV, VRML 98, Peruse 98, Alife 6, Virtual Worlds 98, NASA Ames lecture series, and Avatar Avatar at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Upcoming: Digital Biota 2, Web 98 Boston, Avatars 98, CASCOM 98, SCS Western Multiconference 1999, UC Berkeley social networks/computer networks 1999, Institute for the Future 1999, AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence 1999, CIFE Stanford conference 1999, Vircomm 1999, Precarn IRIS 1999, High Wire 1999, Future Screen 1999, SCS Western Multiconference 2000, Web3D/VRML Symposium 2000, Delphi Group corporate portals London conference 2000, Banff Centre 2000, Collaborative Virtual Environments 2000, Highlands Forum 2000, COMDEX 2000 (segment keynote), Stanford Law School Cyberlaw program 2001, Online Social Networks 2001, American Paleontological Convention 2001, Paradox III 2001, Experiential Ecommerce 2001, Cyberarts X 2001, Web3D 2002 Symposium, Quantum Viz 2002, Pop!Tech 2002, Arlington Institute 2003, Art Center College of Design 2003, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2003, ARCO Madrid 2003. A large number of additional keynotes, seminars and colloquia have also been presented since 1995. See conference schedule at http://www.ccon.org/events/events.html.
• Numerous web-based articles for various organizations are posted at http://www.digitalspace.com/papers/index.html

Collaborators during the past five years:

• DeBruin, Jan, numerous papes on Inhabited Virtual Worlds
• DeVarco, Bonnie, design of the California Virtual High School and UCSC V-Tour for UC Santa Cruz
• K. Marcelo, F. Revi and others in Nerve Garden, a Public Terrarium in Cyberspace
• de Kerckhove, D., Mcluhan Program, University of Toronto, design of a virtual university and the IANAT charter
• Gold, S., Bauer, Gold and Associates, architects, London U.K. global virtual architecture competition and MeetingPage architecture
• Funaro, J., Cabrillo College, Riner, R., Northern Arizona Univ., Anthropology of Virtual Communities
• Kryll, R. Charles University, Prague, special curriculum projects in user interface design 1992-94

Five Recent Professional Honors:

• 1998: Nominated as a Silicon Graphics Pioneer of Computer Graphics
• Ars Electronica 1998: honorable mention in .net category for the Biota.org
• Ars Electronica 1997: honorable mention in .net category for the Sherwood Forest Town experiment
• Xplorer of the Year, 1992, Xplor International, for Xerox Elixir Desktop product line
• Sigma Xi and Schlumberger Fellowship Research Awards

Professional Memberships:

• Association for Computing Machinery: SIGCHI
• Space Studies Institute
• Contact Consortium
• Computer History Club
• VRML Consortium

Additional Information
Bruce is a founding member of the Intercommons project, and a supporter and advisor to the Creative Commons project. Bruce also chairs the Computer History Club and established and operates the DigiBarn Computer Museum.

Publication and News Coverage

Bruce's work has been published in ACM Interactions, Communications of the ACM, CHI 96 and 97 proceedings, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Arts, Leonardo, SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings, AI News, Wired Magazine, Wired News, the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, The New York Times, USA Today, the San Jose Mercury News, the Sydney Morning Herald, Suddeutschland Zeitung, Austin American Statesman, Info World, Knowledge Management, Leonardo, CNET, The Industry Standard. Bruce has been featured on Discovery Channel Canada, National Public Radio, CTV, BBC Radio, TV Italia (Calabria), One Step Beyond CNNfn, and other radio and TV programs.

Software and Virtual Worlds Development Projects
Bruce Damer has extensive product development and team leadership experience gained through projects for Xerox, IBM, Siemens-Nixdorf and other corporations. He established software development laboratories in Europe and the USA and there was in charge of large scale software architecture efforts. The Elixir Desktop project was a major exercise in transferring technology from the research environment (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center) to industrial and educational uses. This object desktop publishing system is currently in use by 25,000 commercial, government and educational institutions. See my online documentation on the Elixir project and my part in it.

Recently Bruce has been initiating and project managing virtual worlds development for innovative projects such as Nerve Garden and datafusion world and the deployment of Nerves, a state machine engine for animation in virtual worlds. New work includes development of proposals and prototypes with NASA Ames Research Centre and assistance of Adobe on their new Atmosphere 3D platform as a product evangelist.

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Availability for Speaking
Bruce Damer is available to present keynote addresses, other conference sessions, and full and half day educational seminars and tutorials. His company, DigitalSpace Corporation also offers a full line of virtual world design services. Mr. Damer has extensive speaking, project brainstorming, and course instruction experience, providing numerous conference, and in-house corporate and university programs annually. Please see Speaking and Educational Programs for more information feel free to contact Bruce Damer via this form.

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