From: Colin Godfrey <cgodfrey@cs.umb.edu>
Subject: SIGGRAPH/Boston at Northeastern U., Wed. March 3
Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 5:59 PM


                       SIGGRAPH/Boston Meeting Announcement
                              
               A GRAND TOUR OF THE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS LABORATORY
                           AT NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
                          WITH HANDS-ON DEMONSTRATIONS

                                      
                            Wednesday, March 3, 1999
                     at Northeastern University, Boston, MA
                  

Prof. Ronald R. Mourant, Ph.D., Director of the Virtual Environments
Laboratory at Northeastern University will describe the
state-of-the-art virtual environments projects that his undergraduate
and graduate students have been developing over the past several
years.

Then all participants will have the opportunity to experience the following
virtual environments:

        Driving Simulator
                Hosted by Talal Al-Shihabi and Lily Parsi

        Overhead Crane Simulator
                Hosted by Thara Thattacherry

        Walking Simulator
                Hosted by Beverly Jaeger and Feng-ji (Alex) Tsai

        Nighttime Driving Simulator
                Hosted by Sophia-Katerina Marangos

        Driving Environments Modeling Language
                Hosted by Shinji Tanaka and Jalpesh Patadia


When

  Wednesday, March 3, 1999.  Networking time at 6:30 PM.
  Announcements, feature presentation, and hands-on demonstrations
  will begin at 7:00 PM.


Where
  
  Room 90 in the Snell Engineering Library, Northeastern University, Boston


Directions to the NU campus

  Via public transportation:

    Take the Orange Line to the Ruggles Stop,
    or the E-Green Line to the Northeastern University stop.

      A map of the NU campus is available at:

	  http://www.neu.edu/maps/maps.html

	  The Snell Library is Building 60. 
          To get to Room 90, enter the library and then go down one level.

  Via automobile:

    From Cambridge, take Massachusetts Avenue over the Harvard Bridge.
    From the suburbs, take Storrow Drive to the Fenway exit and bear left
    to Boylston Street.  Turn right on Massachusetts Avenue.
    Cross Huntington Avenue (past Symphony Hall), and turn right on
    Columbus Avenue.  You will see the Parking Garage on your right.
    Refer to the campus map at http://www.neu.edu/maps/maps.html.
    Drive into the entrance to the Parking Garage and keep to your right
    to enter the Visitors Parking lot.  The fee is $6.
    Alternatively, parking on the street is free after 6 PM, if you can
    find an open spot.
    The Snell Library is Building 60. 
    To get to Room 90, enter the library and then go down one level.
 

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