Robert F. Nideffer
PROMOTION MATERIALS '08

Self Statement

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RECENT WORK - '05 to '08

Completed since last review - includes research begun in '03

EARLY WORK - '93 to '02

Context for recent projects

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Title: unexceptional.net, '03-'06
Technology: MySQL, PHP, Javascript, HTML, J2ME, MIDP 2.0, C++, Torque Script, Flash, XML
Description: Multimodal, pervasive, location-aware, net-centric game that deals with love gone bad, political conspiracy, and spiritual transformation. Play involves use of a Blog, a GPS-enabled cell phone, and a 3D game client.
Title: Dino Quest Online, '05-'07
Technology: Flash, PHP, MySQL, XML, HTML
Description: A series of online game modules that are integrated with a physical museum exhibit where children learn about life sciences via paleontology.
Title: DICE, '06
Technology: Flash, PHP, MySQL, XML, HTML
Description: The Domain Independent Collaboration Environment. A virtual collaboration portal providing tools for collective scholarship and sustained collaboration with limited face-to-face interaction.
Title: The Grinch Who Stole Office, '07
Technology: Flash, MYSQL
Description: The first of an online "Books for Beginners" series, inspired by Dr. Seuss.
Title: QQ, '07
Technology: LUA, XML, HTML
Description: An addOn for the massively multiuser online game World of Warcraft that attempts to introduce more intelligent dialogue into the typically mundane in-game chat.
Title: WTF?!, '07-'08
Technology: Flash, XML
Description: A WoW inspired side-scrolling Flash-based RPG built with "!" - our custom made and freely available Software Development Kit.
Title: BNAatWar, '91-'94
Technology: HyperCard
Description: Bodies, No-bodies, and Anti-bodies at War: Operation Desert Storm and the Politics of the "Real" is an analysis of the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf, authored as an interactive CD-ROM.
Title: SPEED, '93-'97
Technology: Perl/CGI, Java, VRML, HTML
Description: A critical forum for the investigation of technology, media, and society.
Title: Life in the Universe, '96-'97
Technology: Macromedia Director
Description: An interactive CD-ROM designed around an essay written by professor Stephen Hawking entitled "Life in the Universe," and five articles from a special issue of Scientific American also entitled "Life in the Universe."
Title: Alexandria Digital Library, '97-'98 v1.0
Technology: Java, JIGI, Oracle, HTML
Description: A consortium of researchers, developers, and educators, spanning the academic, public, and private sectors, exploring a variety of problems related to a distributed digital library for geospatially-referenced information.
Title: Tomb Raider, '99
Technology: Perl/CGI, C++, HTML
Description: Tomb Raider was authored for "Cracking the Maze," an on-line exhibit of computer game patches, modifications, and add-ons. It consists of a patched patch, a tweaked mail server, and an appropriated and reconditioned Web site.
Title: PROXY. '99-'02
Technology: Java, GL4Java, MOO, VRML, HTML
Description: Head game about about knowledge discovery, file-sharing, and information mis/management in relation to networked identity construction and collective behavior.