Bruce Damer
Director, Contact Consortium
Bruce Damer is the CEO and founder of the Digital Space Commons, an international corporation with a leading practice in virtual worlds for industrial design engineering, education and public outreach. Established in 1995, DigitalSpace produced some of the first Internet-based 3D "avatar" applications including virtual events and tradeshows, learning spaces for K-12 and college, corporate information sharing spaces, and virtual worlds for artists. Since 2000 DigitalSpace has been engaged by contracts from Adobe, NASA, and other federal agencies and prime contractors to produce a variety of virtual environments for space mission design, training and to serve the learning needs of developmentally challenged children. To support these projects DigitalSpace has created Digital Spaces (DSS), a full featured, physics based open source framework for 3D simulation. DSS has been used for numerous space and Earth-based applications and is being adopted by a number of universities and independent research efforts.
He is also the director of the Contact Consortium, a California 501c(3) non-profit organization founded in 1995 catalyzing the development of multi-user virtual worlds and virtual communities in cyberspace. He is the author of the book "Avatars" and a visiting scholar at the University of Washington HIT Lab. At the 2008 Global Catastrophic Risks conference in Mountain View, organized by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies together with the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, he presented on the subjects of mitigating impact risks from Near-Earth objects, and the long-term potential for utilizing the source of these possible threats as stepping stones to a sustainable space program.
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Asteroids and Comets: Mitigating Impact Risks and Stepping Stones to a Sustainable Space Program.
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MacHeads the Movie,
Bruce Damer demonstrates the iDoublet
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Global Catastrophic Risks,
Mitigating Impact Risks
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Global Catastrophic Risks,
Mitigating Impact Risks