Alan B. Craig, Ph.D.
Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1205 W. Clark St.
Room 1008
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel: 217 244 1988
Fax: 217 244 1987
Email: acraig@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Websites:
http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/
http://www.chass.uiuc.edu/Index/Index.html
Alan Craig is the Associate Director for Human-Computer Interaction at the Institute for
Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science. He is also a research scientist at the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Alan has focused his career on the
interface between humans and machines. He has been involved in many different
capacities related to scientific visualization, virtual reality, data mining, multi-modal
representation of information, and collaborative systems. He has been with NCSA for
nearly twenty-five years where he has aided scientists in adopting high performance
computing technologies to advance their research. Alan has also been instrumental in
developing next generation tools and techniques in high performance computing. In his
new role with I-CHASS he is bringing HPC methodology, tools, and techniques to
researchers and educators in humanities, arts, and social science. He is co-author of the
book Understanding Virtual Reality, published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, and
author of the newly released book, Developing Virtual Reality Applications, from
Elsevier Publishing.