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Who is the DIVER team? |
Project team members have considerable experience in the design and development of technical and human interface aspects of digital video sytems and in the domains of education and commercial applications.
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Roy
Pea (project lead) is Professor of Education and Learning
Sciences at Stanford University, Director of The Stanford Center
for Innovations in Learning, and has extensive experience in
applying video analysis technology to studies in the learning
sciences, including technological augmentations of science and
mathematics learning and teaching, and in directing projects
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Joseph Rosen (senior engineer) has several decades experience as a programmer and engineer. His expertise with digital video dates
back to the late 1980's, when at Apple Computer he contributed to
experiments that were a precursor to QuickTime. Mr. Rosen received a
Master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York
University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he was also an
Adjunct Professor. |
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Michael
Mills (project co-lead and design director) is a cognitive
scientist with 17 years experience in interface, product design
and user studies. He has a track record of innovation and accomplishment
in real-world interface development, product design and teaching.
While principal scientist at Apple Computer, he was instrumental
in the development of QuickTime and QuickTimeVR. He holds
several interface design patents in digital video and has authored
many articles on interface design. |
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Kenneth
Dauber (senior researcher) has extensive experience
in managing complex software development projects, and also
holds a Ph.D. in sociology. From 1999-2001, he was a software
architect and director of learning technologies at Unext.com,
an Internet distance education company, and prior to that he
worked as a software developer and manager in the consulting,
healthcare, and banking industries. |
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Wolfgang
Effelsberg (visiting scholar) is professor of computer
science University of Mannheim where he teaches computer networks
and multimedia technology. He is co-author of a book on multimedia
communications, a book on video compression techniques, editor/co-editor
of five other books, a book series on multimedia engineering,
and has published a number of papers in national and international
journals and conferences. |
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Eric
Hoffert (consultant) is a digital media technologist
with a broad base of expertise leading digital video, collaboration,
parallel processing, and networked multimedia research and development
products and projects. He has a track record of innovation and
commercialization for cutting edge work at AT&T Bell Laboratories,
Apple Computer, Inc., Magnifi, and Emmperative/P&G. He holds
eleven digital media patents, has published multiple papers for the
IEEE and ACM, and received the M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science
from New York University. |
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Dirk
Farin (visiting engineer) is a Ph.D candidate in computer
science at the University of Mannheim. He is an expert in the
areas of MPEG-4 video coding, object recognition and image
segmentation , video object feature extraction and scene change
detection.
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| With special thanks to all our past and present Stanford Ph.D interns, including Sarah Lewis, Robb Lindgren, and Paula Wellings. |
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