William H. Jepson Director, UCLA Urban Simulation Laboratory, School of Arts and Architecture University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1467 (310) 825-5815, (310) 825-8959 (fax) email: bill@ucla.edu, http://www.ust.ucla.edu/bill EDUCATION 1985 M.B.A., Computers and Information Systems, UCLA 1971 B.A., Mathematics, UCLA HONORS 2001 American Institute of Architects "Research and Technology Award" 2001 UC, Santa Barbara, "Chancellor's Medal (Innovation in GIS Technology)" 2000 American Planning Association "Most Innovative Use of Technology Award" 1999 Named founding member of Silicon Graphics "Vanguards of Visual Computing" 1994 Computerworld/Smithsonian Award. Recent Keynote Speeches and Presentations 2006 UCLA Chancellors Associates, San Fernando Valley Chapter 2005 UCLA Chancellors Associates, Orange County Chapter 2004 South Los Angeles Development Council 2003 UCLA Homeland Security Symposium 2003 LAX Homeland Security Team 2003 City of Phoenix, AZ and Arizona State University 2003 Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency 2003 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2003 Parker Center (Police Headquarters Building) Replacement 2002 Internet2 Fall Conference, Oct. 25, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Calif. Emergency Services Assoc. Annual Conf., Oct. 9, Palm Springs, CA 2002 National Trans. Visualization Conf., April 25, Salt Lake City, Utah 2001 UC Santa Barbara GIS Conf., May 17, Goleta, CA 2000 GIS 2000 Conference, Oct. 31, Savannah, Georgia 2000 UCLA Computer Science Advanced Research Review 2000 Educause Conference, June 9, Seattle, Washington 2000 Internet2 Meeting, Mar. 28, Wash. DC 1999 National League of Cities, Dec. 2, Los Angeles, CA 1999 National Conference of States CIO's, Oct. 27, Indianapolis, Ind. Other Grants and Awards 2001 Calif. Dept. of Transportation - SmartBRT Visualization Grant 2000 NSF ITR - Real-Time Capture and Management of Spatio-Temporal Events 2000 AEG Group - Los Angeles Entertainment District Visualization 1999 NSF Urban Initiatives Grant 1999 Los Angeles City El Pueblo Historic Reconstruction Award 1999 Israel Antiquities Authority Award 1998 Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Grant 1998 Los Angeles World Airports Grant 1997 NSF Civil & Environmental Engineering Grant 1997 Los Angeles City Economic Development Grant 1996 UCLA High Speed Connection to Internet and vBNS 1996 Getty Foundation Grant 1996 Westwood Development Grant 1995 NSF - Virtual Worlds Data Server Grant 1995 CalREN/ScanNet Grant SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Jepson, W. A Real-Time Visualization System for Managing Emergency Response in Large Scale Urban Environments, Proceedings of the 88th Annual Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, March 11-14, 2000. Snyder, L., Jepson, W., Real-Time Visual Simulation as an Interactive Design Tool, ACADIA 99 Conference Proceedings, Snowbird Utah, October 28-31, 1999, pages 356-357 Jepson, W., Friedman, S., Virtual Los Angeles, Urban Simulation in L.A., Planning Magazine, the Journal of the American Planning Association, July 1998, pages 4-7 Jepson, W., Friedman, S., SimCity of Angels, Civil Engineering Magazine, the American Society of Civil Engineers, June 1998, pages 44-47 Chan, R., Jepson, W., Friedman, S., Urban Simulation: An Innovative Tool for Interactive Planning and Consensus Building. Proceedings of the 1998 American Planning Association National Conference, Boston, MA, pages 43-50. (April 1998) Jepson, W., Friedman, S., An Efficient Environment for Real-Time Community Visualization, Proceedings of the 1997 InterService/Industrial Training, Simulation and Education Conference, Orlando Florida (December 1997). Jepson, W., Liggett, R. and Friedman, S., Virtual Modeling of Urban Environments. PRESENCE 5.1 March, 1996. Jepson, W., Liggett, R., and Friedman, S., An environment for real-time urban visualization. Proceedings of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Monterey, California, (April, 1995) Current Collaborators Richard Muntz, UCLA Hanan Samit, University of Maryland