Professor Bruce Thomas
Bruce is Director of the Wearable Computer Laboratory at the University of South Australia. He is also currently a NICTA Fellow, CTO of A-Rage Pty Ltd, and a visiting Scholar with the Human Interaction Technology Laboratory, University of Washington.
Bruce invented the first outdoor augmented reality game ARQuake and his current research interests include wearable computers, user interfaces, augmented reality, virtual reality, CSCW, and tabletop display interfaces.
With a B.A. in Physics from the George Washington University, an M.S. in Computer Science fro the University of Virginia and a PhD from Flinders University, Bruce has been at the School of Computer and Information Science, UniSA since 1990. Bruce brings with him a wealth of experience, having run his own computer consultancy company, been a Computer Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (A major US government laboratory for the Department of Commerce), and a software engineer for the Computer Sciences Corporation and the General Electric Company.