Michael Macedonia
Chief
Scientist
US
Army Simulation, Training, and
Instrumentation
Command (STRICOM)
A
graduate of West Point,
Macedonia
served as an infantry officer in a variety of command and staff positions in
the United States
and overseas assignments including Germany
and the Middle East.
He also served as a project manager for electronic warfare systems.
Following
his military service, Macedonia
became the Vice-president of the Fraunhofer
Center
for Research in Computer Graphics, Inc. (CRCG) in Providence,
Rhode Island.
Macedonia
then joined the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria,
Virginia
as a Research Staff Member for Modeling and Simulation. He later became a
senior scientist at Georgia Tech Research Institute.
Macedonia
has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a M.S. in Telecommunications. He is a contributing editor and on the
editorial board of IEEE Computer. He is also a contributing editor to IEEE
Computer Graphics and Applications and an executive member of the Technical
Committee for Visualization and Computer Graphics. He was the 2002 chair of the
IEEE VR Conference.
His
current research interests are described in the March issue of IEEE Spectrum at
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/mar02/mili.html
He
is a veteran of Desert Storm and the September 11 attack on the Pentagon.