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| April 15, 2011 | Frischer gives the closing keynote at the annual meeting of Computer Applications to Archaeology held in Bejing, China. Photo right: Prof. Minquan Zhou, Dean of Information Science and Technology at Beijing Normal University, presents Frischer with gift after his talk. |  |
| November 17, 2010: | Journalist Patricia Cohen calls Rome Reborn one of her favorite digital humanities projects in an article in the New York Times. |  |
| November 11, 2010: | Article in The Daily Progress (p. A-3) features new grants of the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory. |
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| November 5, 2010: | Press release of the University of Virginia is distributed announcing that the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory won all five of the grant competitions it entered in 2009, garnering over $1 million in new grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. New projects include: creating a 3D model of the Augustus of Prima Porta in the Vatican Museums (NEH HD-51022); creating a 3D model of the portrait of the Emperor Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (photo right; NEH RZ-51221); creating a 3D model of contemporary Rome (NSF IIS-0963657); and creating a virtual world of Hadrian's Villa (NSF IIS-1018512), complete with several thousand bots and avatars representing the ancient users. |
Left: view of the head of the statue of Caligula, courtesy of The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, acquisition of The Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund. Right: view of the head of the digital statue being created by The Virtual World Heritage Laboratory. Click on the image for a larger version. |
| 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." |
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| 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:
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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 (photos: right). Learn more about Rome Reborn 1.0 here. |
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| 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
| 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 |