International Experience



As noted above, I am ACOG's Associate Envoy to Liechtenstein for the 1996 Olympic Games. For now, this means weekly training sessions in Olympianism, Olympic Village orientation, and international protocol. During the Games, I will spend most of my waking hours in the Village or at events with the team, making sure their needs are met. Incidentally, Georgia Tech is the site of the Village.

In the summer of 1993, I was the lucky recipient of a $10,000 NSF Summer Institute in Japan scholarship. This is a program organized with the cooperation of the Science and Technology Agency (STA). I visited and worked at MITI's AIST Electrotechnical Laboratory, Machine Understanding Division, in Tsukuba, Japan for two months. While there, I studied the Japanese language, visited several Japanese laboratories performing research in virtual reality, studied the Japanese language with Tsukuba University instructors, and learned about Japanese culture. I also took the opportunity to visit South Korea and China.

I've reported on my journeys and adventures in Japan in the following two papers:

I've also spent one and a half years studying in Germany on an $8000 WSF scholarship, and so learned to speak fluent German. I studied at the University of Stuttgart's Informatik faculty.





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