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BIOGRAPHY AND VITAE |
Rudolph P. Darken Watkins Hall, Rm. 384
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Rudolph Darken is Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California. He served as the Director of the Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation (MOVES) Institute from 2004 thru 2008 and as the Technical Director for Human Systems from 2001 through 2004. He joined the Naval Postgraduate School in July of 1996. He also serves on the faculty and as Director of Research for the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), and he serves on the Human Systems Integration (HSI) Curriculum Committee. Dr. Darken teaches courses in human systems, training and simulation, business practices in the modeling and simulation industry, and critical infrastructure protection for homeland security. He has taught executive seminars on the role of disruptive technologies in defense acquisition. In 2002, he initiated a program to develop an open source game engine for use in developing training simulations. The engine, Delta3D, is now used in many Department of Defense projects and is used around the U.S. and the world. His research has been focused on spatial cognition and more recently, on game development and agile software development techniques. He has worked extensively in how people learn and develop expertise and how computing media can best be used for learning and skill development. Recent research has been in the use of open source and standards in agile software development frameworks aimed at drastically reducing the cost of building games and simulations while enhancing their flexibility and expressiveness. His background includes experience in interface design, mobile computing, collaborative computing, computer augmented training systems, team training systems, real-time visual simulation, computer graphics, and computer animation. Professor Darken co-founded the first virtual environment laboratory at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. in 1991. He has served on advisory panels for the NASA Ames Research Center , the National Science Foundation, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (U.K.) as well as on the advisory boards of several small technology firms. He is an Associate Editor of PRESENCE Journal, the MIT Press journal of teleoperators and virtual environments. He received his B.S. in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1990 and his M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from The George Washington University in 1993 and 1995, respectively. |