Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation & Education Conference: I/ITSEC 2010

The World's Largest Modeling, Simulation & Training Conference

The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC)promotes cooperation among the Armed Services, Industry, Academia and various Government agencies in pursuit of improved training and education programs, identification of common training issues and development of multiservice programs.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Industry Keynote: R. Bowen Loftin, PhD President, Texas A&M University Dr. R. Bowen Loftin was named president of Texas A&M University in February 2010, after serving as interim president since June 2009. He returned to Texas A&M in May of 2005 as a vice president with the assignment to serve as the Chief Executive Officer of the maritime branch campus in Galveston, where he also held the position of professor of maritime systems engineering. Dr. Loftin is an internationally known scholar in the field of virtual reality. His specific expertise is in using advanced software technologies to develop three-dimensional, virtual environments for training astronauts and soldiers to undertake a variety of tasks, such as reporting failed equipment. He spent 23 years at the University of Houston as a professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science and director of the NASA Virtual Environments Research Institute. He then went to Old Dominion University in Virginia to establish graduate degree programs in modeling and simulation as director of simulation programs at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis & Simulation Center and as a professor of electrical and computer engineering, and of computer science. He serves on numerous advisory committees and panels sponsored by governmental and professional organizations. He has served since 2007 as a member of the National Academies� Panel on Arms and Armaments and previously served on the National Science Advisory Committee for the Desert Research Institute, which was assembled under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Since 2006, he has served as associate editor of Computers in Science and Engineering. Dr. Loftin has frequently served as a consultant to both industry and government in the areas of modeling and simulation, advanced training technologies, and scientific/engineering data visualization. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 technical publications and has conducted more than 180 invited lectures and other presentations. Additionally, he has served as principal investigator or major participant in scores of grants and contracts totaling millions of dollars. He graduated from Texas A&M in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, with highest honors, and earned an MA and PhD in 1973 and 1975, respectively, both also in physics, at Rice University.