News
- Frischer gives the closing keynote address at meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information held on December 15, 2009 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).
- Frischer speaks about the Horace's Villa Project in Rimini, Italy on October 23, 2009. Click here to see news coverage.
- Frischer and Rome Reborn featured on PBS' "Worldfocus" program on September 16, 2009. Click here to view the segment.
- Frischer (photo: right) receives the 2009 Tartessus Prize from the Spanish Society of Virtual Archaeology; Italica, Spain, June 19, 2009.
- Frischer's team publishes Rome Reborn 1.0 in Google Earth; service is launched at a press conference in Rome held on November 12, 2008 by Rome's Mayor Gianni Alemanno and Google CTO Michael Jones. For more, click here. For Google's video about the project, click here.
- Frischer leads team to present Rome Reborn as featured project at SIGGRAPH 2008 in the Los Angeles Convention Center, August 8-12, 2008. 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.
- Frischer participates in press conference with Rome's Mayor Walter Veltroni to unveil Rome Reborn 1.0 on June 12, 2007. Learn more about Rome Reborn 1.0 here.
- 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
- Reseller Advocate Magazine features Professor Bernard Frischer "SFF Rises Again: Small Form Factor Just May Save the Desktop," By William Van Winkle.
- 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, October 6, 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. (July 22, 2005)
Neil Silberman gives Bernard Frischer the
Pioneer Award at a ceremony in Ghent,
Belgium, October 6, 2005.
- Newsweek (Feb. 3, 2003) reports on completion of CVRLab computer model
of the Roman Forum [pdf].
- Interview in Il Messaggero by Diana Letizia (December 4, 2003).
- International Herald Tribune, Italy Daily (June 6, 2002) covers the
CVRLab model of the Colosseum.
- Interview in Ottagono Design & Designers 142 (February-March 2001).
- "Italy Daily" of the International Herald Tribune covers
Horace's Villa excavation, July 25, 2001 [pdf].
- UCLA's Visualization Portal opens, heralding new era in use of Virtual
Reality on campus, Jan. 25, 2000.
- TV interview about the UCLA Cultural VR Lab on Discovery, March 6,
2000 (streaming video, 8 minutes).
- Il Messaggero covers the Excavations at Horace's Villa, September 17,
1999.
- Reuters writes about the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Lab, November
19, 1999.
- Story in The Sunday Times (London), April 19,1998 by Godfrey Smith.
- Excavations at Horace's Villa Reopened, 1997.
- Sorbonne Professors Find Mosaic Confirming Frischer's Reconstruction
of Epicurus' Portrait, 1995.
| 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 |