Tom Furness is an amalgam of Professor, Inventor and Entrepreneur in a professional career that spans 53 years. In addition to his contributions in photonics, electro-optics, human interface technology, he is an original pioneer of virtual and augmented reality technology and widely known as the ‘grandfather’ of virtual reality. Tom is currently a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering with adjunct professorships in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, Washington, USA. He is the founder of the family of Human Interface Technology Laboratories at the University of Washington, Christchurch, New Zealand and Tasmania, Australia. Tom is a Fellow in the IEEE and the founder and chairman of the Virtual World Society, a non-profit for extending virtual reality as a learning system for families and other humanitarian applications.
01:25 PM - 02:20 PM
Rebecca Barkin | Lamina1
Thomas Coughlin | Coughlin Associates
Ramesh Ramadoss | IEEE
Yu Yuan | IEEE
Sri Chandrasekaran | IEEE
Neil Trevett | Khronos Group
Tom Furness | Virtual World Society
11:00 AM - 11:35 AM
Angelina Dayton | Virtual World Society
Alvin Graylin | HTC
Linda Ricci | Consultant
Tom Furness | Virtual World Society