Bill Tomlinson
badger@media.mit.edu

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2002 Blumberg, B., Downie, M., Ivanov, Y., Berlin, M., Johnson, M. P., and Tomlinson, B. 2002. "Integrated Learning for Interactive Synthetic Characters.” Computer Graphics, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2002. San Antonio, TX
 
2002 Tomlinson, B., Downie, M., Berlin, M., Gray, J., Lyons, D., Cochran, J., and Blumberg, B. 2002. "Leashing the AlphaWolves: Mixing User Direction with Autonomous Emotion in a Pack of Semi-Autonomous Virtual Characters." Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation. San Antonio, TX.
 
2002 Tomlinson, B., and Blumberg, B. 2002. "Synthetic Social Relationships in Animated Virtual Characters." From Animals to Animats 7. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB ’02). Edinburgh, UK.
 
2002 Tomlinson, B., and Blumberg, B. 2002. "Social Synthetic Characters." (Visfiles column, edited by Bill Hibbard). Computer Graphics. Vol. 26, No. 2. (May 2002).
 
2002 Downie, M., Tomlinson, B., and Blumberg, B. 2002. "Developing an Aesthetic: Character-Based Interactive Installations." Computer Graphics. Vol. 26, No. 2. (May 2002).
 
2002 Tomlinson, W. 2002. "Synthetic Social Relationships for Computational Entities." Doctoral Dissertation. MIT Program in Media Arts & Sciences. May 7, 2002.
 
2002 Tomlinson, B., and Blumberg, B. 2002. "AlphaWolf: Social Learning, Emotion and Development in Autonomous Virtual Agents." First GSFC/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
 
2001 Tomlinson, B., and Blumberg, B. 2001. "Social Behavior, Emotion and Learning in a Pack of Virtual Wolves." 2001 AAAI Fall Symposium "Emotional and Intelligent II: The Tangled Knot of Social Cognition". November 2-4, 2001, North Falmouth, MA.
 
2001 Blumberg, B., Tomlinson, B., and Downie, M. 2001. "Multiple Conceptions of Character-Based Interactive Installations." Computer Graphics International 2001. p. 5-11
 
2000 Tomlinson, B., B. Blumberg and B. Rhodes. 2000. "How Is an Agent Like a Wolf?: Dominance and Submission in Multi-Agent Systems." International ICSC Symposium on Multi-Agents and Mobile Agents in Virtual Organizations and E-Commerce (MAMA '2000), Wollongong, Australia
 
2000 Tomlinson, B., B. Blumberg, and D. Nain. 2000. "Expressive Autonomous Cinematography for Interactive Virtual Environments." Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
 
2000 Tomlinson, B. 2000. "Dead Technology." Style Vol. 33 No. 2, p. 316-335
 
1999 Tomlinson, W. 1999. "Interactivity and Emotion through Cinematography." Master's Thesis. MIT Media Arts and Sciences.
 
1999 Synthetic Characters Group (B. Tomlinson, M. Downie, A. Benbasat, J. Wahl, W. Stiehl, B. Blumberg). 1999. "sand:stone - Artist Statement." Leonardo Vol. 32, No. 5, p. 462-463
 
1997 Tomlinson, B. 1997. "The Sundance Kid." Philadelphia City Paper, 1/30/97
 
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