Carolina Cruz-Neira

Carolina Cruz-Neira (* in Venezuela ) is a computer scientist and has been the Agere Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida since 2020. Her research revolves around various aspects of application design and development in virtual reality. She is known as the developer of the CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment .

Life

Cruz-Neira received her Masters Degree in 1991 and her PhD in 1995 from the University of Illinois at Chicago . Her research is mainly concerned with technologies in the context of virtual reality . As part of her doctorate, she played a key role in the development of the first Cave Automatic Virtual Environment . In addition, she was instrumental in the development of the necessary basic technologies such as B. CAVE ™ Library and VR Juggler involved.

In 2018 she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering .

Publications

Video about the CAVE
Video of the Cruz-Neiras master's thesis
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti, Robert V. Kenyon, John C. Hart: The CAVE: Audio Visual Experience Automatic Virtual Environment . In: Commun. ACM . tape 35 , no. 6 . ACM, June 1992, ISSN 0001-0782 , pp. 64-72 , doi : 10.1145 / 129888.129892 .

Web links

Commons : Carolina Cruz-Neira - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Homepage at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory
Profile on Google Scholar
Profile at Interaction Design
Profile on Research Gate

Individual evidence

↑ Washington Times
^ Department of Computer Science. Retrieved April 11, 2020 .
^ University of Central Florida | Orlando's Hometown University. Retrieved April 11, 2020 (American English).
↑ CAVE ™ Library
↑ Allen Bierbaum, Christopher Just, Patrick Hartling, Kevin Meinert, Albert Baker, Carolina Cruz-Neira: VR Juggler: A Virtual Platform for Virtual Reality Application Development . In: Proceedings of the Virtual Reality 2001 Conference (VR'01) (= VR '01 ). IEEE Computer Society, Washington DC 2001, ISBN 0-7695-0948-7 , pp. 89-- ( dl.acm.org [accessed February 5, 2016]).

personal data
SURNAME	Cruz-Neira, Carolina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[1] Washington Times

[2] Department of Computer Science. Retrieved April 11, 2020 .

[3] University of Central Florida | Orlando's Hometown University. Retrieved April 11, 2020 (American English).

[4] CAVE ™ Library

[5] Allen Bierbaum, Christopher Just, Patrick Hartling, Kevin Meinert, Albert Baker, Carolina Cruz-Neira: VR Juggler: A Virtual Platform for Virtual Reality Application Development . In: Proceedings of the Virtual Reality 2001 Conference (VR'01) (= VR '01 ). IEEE Computer Society, Washington DC 2001, ISBN 0-7695-0948-7 , pp. 89-- ( dl.acm.org [accessed February 5, 2016]).