Perry McDowell

Lecturer in Computer Science

Naval Postgraduate School

Firefigting in an Engine Room
Image from Perry McDowell and
Tony King's Master's Thesis

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Academic and Professional Interests

Large scale virtual environments

Agent based simulations

Context based computing/Augmented cognition

Shipboard training in virtual environments

Master's Thesis (w/ Tony King) "A Networked Virtual Environment for Shipboard Training" March, 1995

Networked virtual environments

Courses

CS-2971: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in C++

CS-3971: Data Structures and Intermediate Object Oriented Programming in C++

MV-4202: Computer Graphics
MV-4473: Virtual Worlds and Simulation Systems

Research Projects

The Context Machine
Part of the DARPA Augmented Cognition Project

Publications

"A Future for Entertainment-Defense Research Collaboration"
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Jan-Feb 2001,
Michael Capps, Perry McDowell, Michael Zyda.

VR Links

	MOVES Institute
	NPSNet Research Group

NPS Links

Naval Postgraduate School Home Page

NPS Computer Science

Naval Postgraduate School Computer Science Department Home Page

Monterey, Ca Weather

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Last Updated: 22 January 2003