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Professor Bernard Frischer

News

March 10, 2010:	Frischer gives the opening keynote address at the conference, "La technologie gréco-romaine entre restitution et reconstitution," at the Université de Caen. He and Caen's President Josette Travers (photo: right) sign a contract of cooperation between Rome Reborn and Caen's project "Rome virtuelle."
February 26, 2010:	Frischer gives the opening keynote address at the Symposium "Technology Preserves" sponsored by the Center for Heritage Conservation of Texas A&M. He meets with students in the Department of Visualization (photo: right).
December 15, 2009:	Frischer gives the closing keynote address at meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information held in Washington, DC. Click here for the text and slides of the lecture. Click here to see the video of the talk (ca. 60 minutes).
October 23, 2009:	Frischer speaks about the Horace's Villa Project in Rimini, Italy. Click here to see news coverage.
September 16, 2009:	Frischer and Rome Reborn featured on PBS' "Worldfocus" program. Click here to view the segment.
September, 2009:	Frischer is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Information Science of Beijing Normal University. He gives four lectures at BNU and Northwestern University in Xi'an.
June 19, 2009:	Frischer (photo: right) gives the opening keynote address at the first meeting of the Spanish Society of Virtual Archaeology in Italica (Spain) and receives the 2009 Tartessus Prize.
December, 2009:	Rome Reborn is the cover story of Computer Graphics World (story by CGW editor Karen Moltenbrey on pp. 16-25).
November 12, 2008:	Frischer's team publishes Rome Reborn 1.0 in Google Earth (photo of team members in Rome: right); service is launched at a press conference in Rome held by Rome's Mayor Gianni Alemanno and Google CTO Michael Jones. For more, click here. For Google's video about the project, click here.
August 8-12, 2008:	Frischer leads team to present Rome Reborn as featured project at SIGGRAPH 2008 in the Los Angeles Convention Center. For more information, click here. For a YouTube video about the booth, click here. For a video shown at SIGGRAPH in which Bernard Frischer and Dean Abernathy explain the project, click here.
October 2007:	Rome Reborn project featured in Architect magazine (pp. 80-85).
June 12, 2007:	Frischer participates in press conference with Rome's Mayor Walter Veltroni to unveil Rome Reborn 1.0 on June 12, 2007 (photo: right). Learn more about Rome Reborn 1.0 here.
April 5, 2007:	Frischer interviewed on German Public Radio: "Google Earth instead of Trowel and Brush: Archaeologists Discover the Appeal of Computer Tools." April 5, 2007. Listen to the interview. (Original broadcast in German, transcription in English available.)

Archive

October 6, 2005:	Frischer receives the first Pioneer Award of the International Society of Virtual Systems and Multimedia from Neil Silberman, Director of the Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation. Ghent, Belgium (photo: right).
July 22, 2005:	Frischer featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education - Soaring Through Ancient Rome, Virtually: A compact version of existing technology lets archaeologists and art historians revisit the past.
Feb. 3, 2003:	Newsweek reports on completion of CVRLab computer model of the Roman Forum [pdf].
Dec. 4, 2003:	Frischer interviewed in the Roman newspaper Il Messaggero by Diana Letizia.
June 6, 2002:	International Herald Tribune, Italy Daily (June 6, 2002) covers the CVRLab model of the Colosseum.
Feb.-March, 2001:	Frischer interviewed in Ottagono Design & Designers 142 (February-March 2001)
July 25, 2001:	"Italy Daily" of the International Herald Tribune covers Horace's Villa excavation directed by Bernard Frischer. [pdf].
March 6, 2000:	Discovery interviews Frischer about the UCLA Cultural VR Lab on Discovery (streaming video, 8 minutes).
Sept. 17, 1999:	The Roman newspaper, Il Messaggero, covers Frischer's excavations at Horace's Villa.
Nov. 19, 1999:	Reuters publishes article about the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Lab, directed by Frischer.
April 19, 1998:	Story about Frischer in The Sunday Times (London) by Godfrey Smith.
July 15, 1997:	Frischer reopens the excavations at Horace's Villa, picking up where Thomas Price and Giuseppe Lugli left off in 1931.
1995:	Sorbonne Professors Find Mosaic Confirming Frischer's Reconstruction of Epicurus' Portrait.

Photos from the News Archive
Interview for Il Venerdi di Repubblica by Marco Merola, April, 2004 (photo courtesy of Pasquale Sorrentino)	Interview for RAI 1 by Cecilia Mastrantonio, December, 2003	New digital model of the English colony of Port Royal (Jamaica) is installed in the Ocean Institute (Dana Point, California), September, 2003
Interview for Bavarian TV by Elli Kriesch, May, 2003	Public launching of the digital model of the Roman Forum to the media, January, 2003	Interview for The Discovery Channel by James Younger, February, 2003