Don Brutzman

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Naval Postgraduate School
Graduate School of Operations and Information Science (06)
Information Sciences Department and Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES) Institute
Associate Professor
Undersea Warfare Academic Committee
Chair
Professional Headshot of Don Brutzman

Mailing Address

Code USW/BR
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California 93943-5000
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (831) 656-2149
Fax: (831) 656-7599
brutzman@nps.edu
web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman

Qualifications

Ph.D., Naval Postgraduate School, Computer Science, 1994.
M.S., Naval Postgradaute School, Computer Science, 1992.
B.S.E.E., U.S. Naval Academy, Electrical Engineering, 1978.

Expertise and Research Interests

Computer graphics
Underwater robotics
Artifical intelligence
High-performance networking

Other Expertise

NPS Experience:
1999-Present: Associate Professor, Joint affiliation with Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES) Institute
1995-Present: Assistant Professor, Applied Science, Undersea Warfare (USW) Academic Group
1992-1994: Military Instructor, Department of Operations Research

Future Research

Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics
Extensible Modeling & Simulation Framework (XMSF)
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Workbench
XML Schema-based Binary Compression (XSBC)

Industrial Relevance

Web-based X3D graphics, modeling & simulation (M&S), web services

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence or Cybernetics, Computer and Information Sciences, Computer Graphics, Electrical Engineering or Electronics, High Performance Computing, Information Science or Systems, Networking, Robotics.

Additional Terms:

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, High-performance Networking, Underwater Robotics.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
French: (Functional, Functional, Functional)

Memberships

American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Graphics
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Web3D Consortium

Previous Positions

1974-1990, 1983-1986: Operational Test Director, Operational Test and Evaluation Force
1974-1990, 1978-1979: Student, Nuclear Power School
1974-1990, 1974-1978: Midshipman, United States Naval Academy
1974-1990, 1986-1988: Combat Systems Officer and Commissioning Crew Plankowner, USS Honolulu SSN 718
1974-1990, 1979-1983: Electrical Officer, Communicator and Damage Control Assistant, USS George C. Marshall SSBN 654
1974-1990, 1988-1990: Navigator and Combat Systems Officer, USS Bremerton SSN 698

Patents

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR BASED TORPEDO COUNTER-MEASURE, Patent Number: 6600694, 2003, , United States.

Publications

  • Brutzman, Don, Zyda, Mike, Watsen, Kent and Macedonia, Mike, Virtual Reality Transfer Protocol (vrtp) Design Rationale, Draft available at www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/vrtp_design.ps with slides at vrtp_design.slides.ps
  • Brutzman, Don, Healey, Tony, Marco, Dave and McGhee, Bob, The Phoenix Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, AI-Based Mobile Robots, editors David Krtenkamp, Pete Bonasso and Robin Mutphy, MIT/AAAI Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to appear 1997. Available at www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~auv/aimr.ps
  • Brutzman, Don, Graphics Internetworking: Bottlenecks and Breakthroughs, chapter, Digital Illusions, Clark Dodsworth editor, Addison-Wesley, Reading Massachusetts, to appear summer 1996. Available at www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/vrml/breakthroughs.html
  • Brutzman, Donald P., A Virtual World for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Ph.D. Dissertation, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, December 1994. Available at www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/dissertation/
  • Macedonia, Michael R. and Brutzman, Donald P., MBone Provides Audio and Video Across the Internet, IEEE COMPUTER, Vol. 27, No. 4, April 1994, pp. 30-36. Available at ftp://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/auv/aaai93wx.ps.Z

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