Baker, Christopher W

Explains how the computer is used to create animation and compares the approach to traditional animation.

Explains how computer-powered simulators are helping train people for demanding jobs.

Describes the nature of scientific visualization and its use by scientists and doctors to interpret data and observe phenomena which were thought unobservable.

Describes the development of various types of robots, the challenges inherent in making them more and more complex, and uses of robots now and in the future.

Describes the use of virtural reality as it now exists and as it will be in the near future.