PAST EMPLOYMENT:
GENERAL INFO:
Dave Deitrich is a progamming analyst who works for Motorola in Arlington Heights, Illinois (a northern suburb of Chicago). He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Summer of 1993, and recently received his master's degree from the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. While at Georgia Tech Dave was VERY involved with the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, a special interdisciplinary lab on campus. Dave received his Masters degree on June 10, 1995.
PAST EMPLOYMENT:
While studying at the University of Illinois Dave worked for the Computing and Communications Service Department as manager of the CCSO Oregon Street Computing Site, a public-access computer lab. At Georgia Tech, Dave worked for a year and a half as the graduate assistant to Randy Carpenter, Lab Manager for the GVU Center. He greatly enjoys working as a systems administrator and support technician, especially if his duties involve graphics or the world wide web.
PAST RESEARCH:
Dave worked on several different research projects while at Georgia Tech.
He was a member of the
Dave briefly worked on the
Virtual GIS project, which is managed by
Bill Ribarsky, Nick Faust (GTRI), and
Larry Hodges, and is supported by the U.S. Army. The goal of the
Virtual GIS project is to integrate geographic information
applications and
virtual environments in order to develop a high-quality imaging
tool for use in simulations. He decided to resign from the project in order
to become the Lab GRA for the GVU lab.
VRoids! was written by Dave Deitrich and
Dave Rodriguez for the Spring 1955 CS 8113H Virtual
Environments special topic course. To their knowledge, it is the first
video game written using the
Simple Virtual
Environments (SVE) toolkit written at the GVU Center.
VRoids! was written in C on SGI reality engine workstations and
uses SVE version 1.5 along with custom-designed routines. The
game is playable on both 2D and 3D display screens, and is primarily designed
to be played using a head-mounted display and the FlightStick 3D pointer (also
developed at the GVU center).
The object of VRoids! is fairly simple. You must navigate
through an asteroid field in space from one end to the other, while shooting
targets along the way to earn points. You can also shoot any asteroids that
get close to you in order to avoid hitting them. Bonus points are awarded for
flying through the field in better-than-average time, but be warned; if you
are hit by an asteroid your score (and your life) are forefited.
VRoids! A Virtual Environments Video Game
The GVU WWW-based Lab Scheduler
Dave's crowning achievement while working at Georgia Tech was the design of
a completely web-based lab scheduler for reserving machines for research
projects. Fully interactive, the web scheduler would check the person's
identity from the /etc/passwd file and then modify data files contained
on the web server. Then scripts that ran every hour would take the data files
and modify the motd files for each machine to indicate when the
computers were reserved. Unfortunately, due to security concerns the
GVU Lab Scheduler is only available for local access by College
of Computing machines. The lab scheduler was written in C and html.
For a Human-Computer Interaction course, Dave and a few of his classmates redesigned the interface to a Automatic Teller Machine. The complete class project is available in HTML format, including prototypes. Dave's group got a B grade on the assignment.
JOB SKILLS:
Dave is perfectly happy with working for Motorola for right now, but he does have his RESUME on line if you're interested. It is available in either TEXT or POSTSCRIPT form.
HOBBIES AND INTERESTS:
When Dave isn't writing about himself in the third person, he enjoys doing some of the following activities.
Click HERE to learn about ROBOTECH: THE THIRD INVID WAR , a unofficial fan-written RPG supplement being written by Dave Deitrich and Chris Meadows.
Click HERE to see my stats for the mecha from MACROSS PLUS and MACROSS 7, compatible with all Palladium mecha RPGs.
SOME OF DAVE'S FAVORITE WEB PAGES:
DAVE'S GEEK CODE:
Below is Dave's geek code, which allows fellow geeks to learn everything there is to know about him at a glance. To learn what the code means, click on it.
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
DAVE DEITRICH 1010 Sterling Ave. Apt. #207 Palatine, IL 60067
Home Phone: (708) 202-0309 Work Phone: (???) ???-???? Email: deitrich@mcs.com