Tech Leaders Today

Steven Aukstakalnis is an author, research scientist and instructor in the area of virtual and augmented reality. He is the former Director of the Virtual Environment and Interactive Systems Program for the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation. He has served on the professional research staff at the University of Washington and the faculty of Mississippi State University. Steve is an invited lecturer and researcher for the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Nat'l Reconnaissance Office, University of Michigan, Pepperdine, Purdue, Dartmouth, Nat'l Taiwan University, the Smithsonian Inst. and a host of other universities, corporations and government agencies across N. America and around the world. Steve has authored three books on the topic of virtual and augmented reality, as well as dozens of papers, magazine articles and technology reviews. His second book, Silicon Mirage, was published in 6 languages and adopted as a text in schools across the U.S., Europe and Asia. H