About the Author

Steven Aukstakalnis (Awk-sta-call-niss) is the former Director of the Virtual Environment and Interactive Systems Program at 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. He is the author of two previous books about virtual reality and interactive systems. The second, Silicon Mirage, was published in six languages and adopted as a text in schools around the world. He is an invited lecturer and researcher for a host of universities, corporations, and government agencies. Steven lives in South Florida and is an avid kayaker and sailor.

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