From: "J. Fred Henderson" Subject: Directory of VR Professionals Date: 17 Aug 1995 14:41:45 GMT Message-ID: <40vkf9$dja@shiva.usa.net> Organization: Internet Express (800-592-1240 customer service) From J. Fred Henderson ARE YOU A PROFESSIONAL IN VIRTUAL REALITY, OR DO YOU ASPIRE TO BE ONE? If so, then we invite you to have your biography, including color portrait photo, published FREE OF CHARGE in the DIRECTORY OF VR PROFESSIONALS THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF VIRTUAL REALITY, a multimedia publication for professions, publishes quarterly issues. Each issue includes a Windows- compatible CD-ROM that allows researchers to display images, videos, and demos of their research projects. In the future we plan to support other platforms on the CD-ROM as well as the Internet. The IJVR is committed to active promotion of the VR profession in all possible ways, and in this connection we want to publish the DIRECTORY OF VR PROFESSIONALS on the CD- ROM that comes with each issue of the journal. At some point we may publish the directory as a separate CD-ROM or as a book. As you may know, there is no professional organization or even directory that segregates professionals in VR from related fields such as computer science, simulation, or electronics. The closest comprehensive mailing list relates to various computer graphics conferences. We want to publish a directory that clearly identifies persons who consider themselves to be current or future professionals in VR. This means ALL aspects of VR, including software, hardware, and aspects related to education, medicine, psychology, and fine arts, to name just a few. Persons who appear in this directory may be contacted for possible employment, receive announcements for professional meetings, and receive advertising related to VR products and publications. If any of these are of interest to you, you should consider responding to our offer. On subsequent pages I have provided detailed directions for submitting your personal information for inclusion in the directory. Please submit the data in computer-readable form and follow the directions precisely, for our process of adding your data to the directory is computer automated. Richard A. Blade Editor-in-Chief P.S. Let me emphasize to you that there is NO CHARGE or any other obligation for the inclusion of your name, photo, and biographical information in the DIRECTORY OF VR PROFESSIONALS. In particular, you do NOT have to be a subscriber to THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF VIRTUAL REALITY. DIRECTIONS FOR SUBMITTING YOUR BIOGRAPHY IN THE DIRECTORY OF VR PROFESSIONALS We MUST receive your data in computer readable form, for we expect to use specially prepared software to extract and insert the data into the directory. The software looks for each keyword in capital letters listed below, including the colon, in the order presented. It then inputs the lines following the keyword until it reaches the maximum number of lines or sees a blank line. Begin your data on the line immediately following each keyword. You should use capital and lower case letters on names, addresses, etc. Email addresses should be in lower case unless your host requires particular letters be capitalized. In addresses, particularly international addresses, please express the address using separate lines EXACTLY as you want the address to appear on a mailing label, as you will be receiving mail using such labels. We will not separate items delimited by commas on the same line of your submitted data. You may mail us a floppy disk in ASCII format (usually labelled a .TXT file by a word processor) to the editorial office, or upload your ASCII file onto our ftp site on the Internet. The host is usa.net. Use anonymous to log on, and use your email address as your password. Go to the directory called users and then to the directory called ijvr. The usual text based command to transfer the file from your computer to our ftp site is then put yourfilename.ext. You may name the file anything you like as long as the filename does not duplicate any others there, but make the file extension .VRD so we can identify it as data for the directory. Duplicate the words in capitals EXACTLY as shown below along with the colons. The instructions in the parentheses following the colons should not be included, but will be eliminated by our software automatically if you include them before your data entries. Do not indent any of your data except (possibly) for the beginning of paragraphs in the narrative. Lines may be up to 80 characters long, and each should be followed by a (hard) line break. (Some ASCII output filters from word processors remove "soft" line breaks. There is no need to justify lines, and any hyphens in your entries will remain hyphens in the directory. Our software will automatically format the data in other ways. Below is a submission form with directions. Below that is a sample form filled out. You may delete the data on that sample form and replace it with your own data. At the very end I include subscription information for the IJVR. ============== FORM WITH DIRECTIONS ================= LAST NAME: (Up to 25 characters on one line.) TITLE/FIRST NAME/MI: (One line, up to 25 characters, giving your title, such as "Dr." or "Professor", if you wish to have one listed, followed by your first name and middle initials. The entry in the directory will list your last name, a comma, and then the entry on this line.) MAILING ADDRESS: (Up to 6 lines, each up to 30 characters, beginning with your name as you would like to see it on a mailing label, and ending with the country if you live outside the United States.) COUNTRY: (If you have an international address, write the name of the country here. If you live in the United States, leave blank.) DAYTIME PHONE: (One line, up to 25 characters. You may use any dashes you wish, plus "X" or "Ext" for an extension. Use parentheses and a prefix to dial your number from the U.S.A. if you reside outside the United States.) EVENING PHONE: (Same format as daytime phone.) FAX: (Same format as daytime phone.) INTERNET EMAIL ADDRESS: (One line, up to 60 characters. Use lower case letters unless otherwise required.) AFFILIATION: (Optional. One line, up to 50 characters. List your place of employment, your educational institution, or some other institution that you want to have your name associated with.) EDUCATION: (Up to 4 lines of up to 50 characters each. Usually each line will contain the degree name, such "B.A.", "M.S.", "Ph.D.", followed by a comma, the major or specialization, the name of the institution, and the year graduated, in chronological order. "Registered Prof. Eng.", followed by the state registered, and the year, is appropriate for a registered professional engineer.) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: (Optional. Up to 6 lines, up to 80 characters each line. One line for each professional society and/or association that you would like to have listed. Follow the name of the organization with a comma and your position title if so desired. You should order your entries with the most important first.) PRIMARY PUBLICATIONS: (Optional. Up to 4 lines, up to 80 characters each line. Each line can contain one bibliographic reference to a publication related to virtual reality. List your most important first.) INTERESTS: (Up to 3 lines, up to 80 characters each line. BRIEFLY enter words or phrases, separated by commas, that summarize your interests in virtual reality.) NARRATIVE: (Up to 15 lines, up to 80 characters each line. You may use indenting here to separate paragraphs. DO NOT separate paragraphs with a blank line. Here you should describe your history, your interests, your honors, your accomplishments, and your aspirations in the third person. You may repeat any information placed in data fields above. This is your opportunity to present yourself to persons who read your entry. Prepare it carefully.) ***** The following information is for ***** ***** use by the IJVR only, and will not be ***** *********** included in the directory. ************ NEW/REVISION: (Enter "N" or "n" if this is your first submission. Enter "R" or "r" here if this is a revision of a previously submitted entry. If your response has more than one letter only the first letter of the string will be read by the computer.) EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES: (Enter a single "Y" or "y" if you are interested in being contacted regarding possible employment in the field of VR. Otherwise leave this entry blank.) RECEIVE PRODUCT ADVERTISING: (Enter a single "Y" or "y" here if you would like advertising relevant to your status as a VR professional. Otherwise leave this entry blank.) INTEREST IN STANDARDS: (The IJVR actively promotes the formation of standards in virtual reality for the purpose of establishing a robust market in VR products. Our standards editor is a member of the IEEE Standards Board, and the Editor-in-Chief is the focus chair for standards in virtual reality for the IEEE. Please list in 6 lines or less, up to 80 characters per line, any interests you might have in working on VR standards or proposing any important projects in VR standards. You will be contacted by email if you respond to this item.) IJVR SUBSCRIPTION: (Enter a single "Y" or "y" here if you would like to subscribe to the IJVR. We shall send you a sample issue along with a bill. If you decide not to subscribe, you may write "CANCEL" on the bill and return it to us, keeping the sample copy with our compliments for your interest. See below for subscription rates and information.) INTEREST IN IJVR ARTICLE SUBMISSION: (Enter a single "Y" or "y" here if you have any interest in submitting an article to the IJVR any time in the future. Each issue of the IJVR has the most recent version of the Author's Guide, but if you did not indicate interest in a subscription above, we shall send you a separate Author's Guide.) POTENTIAL IJVR ADVERTISER: (Enter a single "Y" or "y" here if you or your firm have any interest in advertising in the IJVR any time in the future. We shall send a media kit that includes advertising rates and submission procedures. You may also include a separate name and address on up to 6 lines below your "Y" if you wish the materials sent to some one other than yourself.) PHOTO IDENTIFICATION: (You may mail or ftp an image file of your portrait photo, or you may mail a (nonreturnable) black-and-white or color photo to the editorial office of the IJVR. Use this field to identify the filename or a name that you have written on the back of the photo. If you want to submit a file, the best format is a 256 color .GIF or .BMP file whose image will take up a significant portion of a 640x480 pixel VGA screen. If you don't have a GIF or .BMP, almost any DOS or WINDOWS compatible format will do.) ============= SAMPLE OF THE COMPLETED FORM ============ LAST NAME: Smith TITLE/FIRST NAME/MI: Prof. John O. MAILING ADDRESS: Prof. John O. Smith Fine Arts Dept., Rm 1115 Baker Hall University of Miami Miami, FL 12345 COUNTRY: DAYTIME PHONE: (011)45-876-98-345 EVENING PHONE: 213-345-9876 FAX: 213-345-9876 INTERNET EMAIL ADDRESS: j.smith@um.edu AFFILIATION: University of Miami EDUCATION: B.S., Computer Science, UCLA, 1990 Registered Prof. Eng., Florida, 1992 M.S., Visual Comm, Univ. of Florida, 1993 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: Computer Society of the IEEE PRIMARY PUBLICATIONS: Book: Smith, J., and Herbert, V., Computer Art, Prentice-Hall, 1994 INTERESTS: Developing computer art using HMD's and shutter glasses. NARRATIVE: John O. Smith was formerly an aerospace engineer working for Hughes Aircraft in the area of data visualization. He left to take a job in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Miami developing VR art using state-of-the-art virtual reality technology. He has written 30 articles on the subject of VR as well as coauthored a book on VR art. ** THE FOLLOWING WILL NOT BE PRINTED IN THE DIRECTORY NEW/REVISION: N EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES: Y RECEIVE PRODUCT ADVERTISING: INTEREST IN STANDARDS: HMDs, Glossary. I am interested in being a member of a balloting group in HMD specifications. Please contact me by fax. IJVR SUBSCRIPTION: Y INTEREST IN IJVR ARTICLE SUBMISSION: POTENTIAL IJVR ADVERTISER: Y John Doe, Marketing Rep ABC Corp. 1234 Atlantic Blvd Los Angeles, CA 91234 PHOTO IDENTIFICATION: josmith.gif ========== IJVR Subscription information ========== As described in the cover letter, the IJVR is a quarterly publication. Each issue consists of a paper publication and a CD-ROM that is currently designed to only be read with Windows 3.1 or compatible operating system. Subscription prices, including CD-ROM, are $25 per issue or $75 annually (4 issues). (Same price internationally, but the payment must be in US dollars.) In your submission for the DIRECTORY OF VR PROFESSIONALS you can indicate your interest in the IJVR. If you indicate you wish to subscribe, you will be mailed a sample issue with an enclosed bill. You may return the bill with your payment or write CANCEL across your bill and return it to us. In either case the sample issue is yours to keep. If you decide NOT to participate in the DIRECTORY OF VR PROFESSIONALS, but still wish to order the IJVR, you may do so by phoning 800-IPI- IJVR (800-474-4587) inside the USA, by faxing us a note with your address at 719-486-3652, or by emailing the required information to ijvr@usa.net. J. Fred Henderson Managing Editor The International Journal of Virtual Reality P.O. Box 925 Leadville, CO 80461 1-800-474-4587 or 719-486-1004, FAX: 719-486-3652 ijvr@usa.net