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2010


Bruce and the DigiBarn are featured in a top story on News.com (January 8, 2010)

2009

2009 - September


EvoGrid covered in story in the New York Times (Sept 29, 2009 - may require subscription). See the NY Times article reproduced at NextNow and also this story in Popular Science.

2009 - July


Story ‘Toy universe’ may solve mystery of life’s origins on Bruce Damer's EvoGrid project featured on Space.com and numerous other sites around the web including MSNBC and Chris Jablonski's blog on ZDNet and on the Russian site DRIVE2.RU (July 2-6th, 2009)

2009 - April


Bruce presented the EvoGrid at Dorkbot San Francisco @ the Gallery With No Name on Folson (Fusso, Herzbach). View the HD Vimeo video here, thanks James Young of Pronoiac.org!! (April 8, 2009)

2009 - February


YouTube Video of Bruce speaking at Timothy Leary event
held in San Francisco on Feb 8, 2009 (posted March 3, 2009). See photo taken by Celeste here.


Bruce and the team from the Timothy Leary Archives project (Futique Trust) are quoted in News.com's story on the Timothy Leary Archives and event in San Francisco (by Daniel Terdiman, February 6, 2009).

2009 - January


Bruce and others from the Digibarn crew and others appeared on stage at MacWorld 2009 in San Francisco for their part in the new feature documentary MacHeads the Movie (January 7, 2009)

2008

2008 - December


Bruce in Randy Farmer's Habitat Chronicles blog for the IMVU-Forterra Word Baloon patent battle (December 2008)


Galen Brandt & Bruce Damer to appear in MacHeads The Movie premiere @ MacWorld, Jan 7, 2009. CNET Story: 'MacHeads' film to debut at MacWorld (December 15, 2008)


Bruce appeared in a special program on Steve Wozniak on American Life TV: Moments that Changed Us (Dec 5, 2008)

2008 - November


Book launched! Divine Action and Natural Selection - Science, Faith and Evolution (Seckbach and Gordon, Editors) with a chapter by Bruce Damer "The God Detector" (November 2008)


View Vimeo video of Bruce Damer talking about Near Earth Objects (NEOs) an the risks and opportunities they pose, at the IEET workshop on GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building a Resilient Civilization (November 14, 2008) MP3 audio is here. as well as a complete transcript (thanks Drew!)


Bruce Damer appeared in a FastCompany Call-in on October 28th, 2008 with Tish Shute, hosted by Donald Schwartz (Wrap up Nov 8, 2008)

2008 - October


Megan Voeller's artsqueeze blog on Creative Loafing featured Bruce Damer's iDoublet and talk at the Sarasota International Design Summit (Oct 2008)


Video of Bruce's performance at the Sarasota International Design Summit (Oct 2008)

2008 - July


Bruce's Terra Nova column mentioned in From the Margins to the Mainland: the Future of Virtual Worlds? Kotaku Australia (July 2008)


Bruce Damer's next (final part) Terra Nova guest column "Virtually Eternal: A Positive Pathway to a Healthy and Sustainable Virtual Worlds Industry?"


Bruce quoted in computerworld article about Cisco CEO John Chambers (July 2008)


The Texas Digital Library's first edition of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research features an article by Bruce Damer: "Meeting in the Ether: A brief history of virtual worlds as a medium for user-created events".

2008 - June


Bruce Damer's new (first part) Terra Nova guest column "A New Virtual World Winter?" for June 2008 generated this commentary on Slashdot and commentary over at gamer news site Kotaku as well as a comment from Cisco CEO John Chambers here Cisco chief lauds coming virtual-world technology Virtual worlds will succeed eventually, Chambers says.


Kobi Shely excerpts the MacHeads the Movie excerpt of Bruce in his iDoublet in the Digibarn here (June 18, 2008). See Kobi's full blog here and the Cyberwearz site here.

2008 - May


Bruce and the Digibarn featured in Christian Science Monitor story "California Museums tell the history of computing" By Ben Arnoldy and Teresa Méndez (May 8, 2008).


The iDoublet in an excerpt from MacHEADS the Movie (on YouTube)
(Thanks Kobi Shely of MacHEADS the Movie)

2008 - April


Bruce and his 'iDoublet" design in the Second Skin fashion show
,
Video and Photographs at www.cyberwearz.com , Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA (April 25, 2008)


Bruce Damer and Allan Lundell on CNET TV LIVE San Francisco (April 24, 2008)


Bruce was on stage at Yuri's Night
at NASA's Ames Research Center (April 12, 2008)

2008 - March


Bruce Damer is featured in the Discovery Channel four part series: Human Body, Pushing the Limits. See Bruce in Part 4: Brain Power (recorded in May 2007). Play excerpt below (posted by a fan on YouTube):

2008 - January/February


Bruce Damer was featured in CNET TV's Tales of Silicon Valley - episodes about the Digibarn


UgoTrade's Tish Shute featured EvoGrid: Bruce Damer’s Vision for the 22nd Century in her blog on Feburary 14, 2008


Bruce Damer and Galen Brandt to be featured in MacHEADS the movie (see Blog here) and Youtube Trailer here (recorded January 2007).

2007

2007 - November


Bruce's Digibarn Computer Museum event on the restoration and 45th birthday party of the "world's first personal computer", the LINC, received extensive media coverage
(Nov 2007).


Bruce Damer's design for a human mission to an asteroid done by DigitalSpace for a NASA feasibility study is covered in a cover story for Popular Science, NASA's New Target (story by Dawn Stover, November 2007).


Bruce was interviewed by Ido Hartogsohn for the Israeli web site Nana (www.nana.co.il), about the possibility for a metaverse, Note this article is in Hebrew. The English version of the original interview is here. (Nov 2007)

2007 - October


Bruce's design simulation (with NASA, DigitalSpace and DM3D Studios) of a human mission to an asteroid, as featured in a short movie on Space.com (Oct 5, 2007)


October 4th: Bruce quoted in a special story by Tom Merritt "Tales of Silicon Valley" about the Digibarn and the "two cultures of Apple" on CNET (news.com).


October 2nd: Bruce quoted in a special story "How NASA helped invent Silicon Valley" on CNET (news.com).
Excerpt:

But the impact of the Apollo program on commercial technology goes far beyond such highly specialized equipment and missions. According to Bruce Damer, founder of the DigiBarn computer museum and a frequent NASA contractor himself through his company DigitalSpace, it's possible to draw a direct evolutionary link between the simple flight simulators NASA was using for the Apollo astronauts in 1967 and 1968--what he called "one of the first highly interactive computer environments"--and some of the early commercial video games.

Similarly, NASA's work with wind tunnels at Moffett became so expensive that the agency decided to turn to supercomputers for more cost-effective simulations.

And that, in conjunction with work done at Ames on tele-operations and telepresence--research that tried to simulate the interior of the space shuttle--led to the creation of 3D graphics, head-mounted displays and early virtual reality technology, all partially funded by NASA.

2007 - September

Bruce was guest columnist in ACM interactions magazine. Title of the column: "Meeting in the Ether" about the history of avatars and virtual worlds. You can see an extended version of that column here.

2007 - August

Bruce and the Digibarn on News.com (Aug 2007)

Bruce and Al on the digibarn on CNET TV (Aug 2007)

2007 - July


Space.com highlighted the DigitalSpace design for a human mission to a NEO in a wide ranging, excellent interview by veteran space journalist Leonard David. See the narrated movie of our design simulation hosted by Space.com here.


CNET's News.com site covered the release with an extensive interview of DigitalSpace's founder and CEO Bruce Damer and NASA NEO expert and study group member David Morrison. See this story, How to land a spacecraft on an asteroid, by Stefanie Olsen, here.


AOL featured the DigitalSpace design for a human mission to a NEO as story #1 on August 1, 2007.

2007 - March

Recent print media news coverage:

Bruce featured in stories on the second wave of avatars in the Christian Science Monitor and USA Today (16 Mar 2007), and the Philadelphia Inquirer with a companion article here (18 Mar 2007)

2007 - February


Bruce on KION 46 (CBS) on Second Life
(Feb 22, 2007) View Quicktime format (streaming) or Windows format (52MB highrez)

2006

2006 - November


Bruce was Newsmaker of the day on CNET, Nov 9, 2006, read interview here. Also see the virtual worlds timeline project.

Bruce, Steve Wozniak, Daniel Kottke, Chris Espinosa and Randy Wigginton presented: Apple@30, 1976: Apple in the Garage
(Nov 4, 2006)

2005

2005 - November


Bruce appears in Emmy-nominated "How William Shatner Changed the World" on Discovery, History Channels
(broadcast in HD, continuously, worldwide).

January 2005 - Icons .net Revolutionaries: Interview in Internet.au (interview by Erik Davis, Nov 2004)

2004

2006 - CanWest story about Bruce and the DigiBarn

2001

May 2001 - Interview in Click Magazine: Digital Space Cowboy Cyberspace visionary Bruce Damer is bringing another dimension to the web: the third one (by Nicole Auch Freeling).

1998

November 26, 1998 - NEWS WATCH; Virtual Meeting Held For 4,000 Who Stayed Home in New York Times.

1997

December 18, 1997 - Public Eye; One second you're James Taylor, the next you're Freud in New York Times.


December 12, 1997 - Bruce Damer
, auteur van 'Atavar! Exploring and building virtual... (in Dutch) NRC Handelsblad.

November 20, 1997 - A Digital You in the Austin-American Statesman (Note, story is pay per view) .

October 14, 1997 - VRML has promise, but when will it be practical? on CNN.com.

1996

July 10, 1996 - Story in PRNewswire, excerpt: "Worlds Inc., the worldwide leader in Internet Virtual Reality, today announced that their online multiuser 3-D community, AlphaWorld, will be the exclusive 3-D English location for the first ever 3-D singles party on the World Wide Web. The event is hosted by the Contact Consortium, a non-profit organization committed to online communication and community building, and Match.com, a leading online dating service."

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