The Institute is proud to be sending Postdoctoral Fellow, Rob Warren off to Australia to work for a period of time at Curtin University with Erik Champion and Gordon Davies.
Dr. Warren will be working on realistic simulations of the Great War and aims to integrate extremely detailed semantic web databases (geo-data, astronomical data, archival material) with immersive visualisation technology such as Curtin’s iDome, to create ultra-realistic simulations of the Great War based on actual maps, events and people that were there.
The project will also provide an example of how humanities and the "Big Data" sciences can work together in disseminating major cultural events, archival information, and cutting-edge technology and information retrieval to the general public. There are significant research problems in the visualization of Big Data that ultra‐realistic simulations may provide novel solutions to.
