Bill Tomlinson
badger@media.mit.edu

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2002 "Socially Competent Computational Characters"
  UCF Texts & Technology Program and Institute for Simulation & Training , (A. Louis Medin Modeling & Simulation Seminar Series) Orlando, FL
 
2002 "Social Synthetic Characters and Interactive Installations"
  RPI iEAR Studio, Troy, NY
 
2002 "Some stories about making characters."
  USC Division of Animation & Digital Arts, LA, CA
 
2001 "Synthetic Social Behavior"
  Keynote, International Conference on Virtual Storytelling, Avignon, France
(Delivered in place of Prof. Bluce Blumberg, who was unable to attend.)
 
2001 "Synthetic Social Intelligence"
  Metapolis Think Tank, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
 
2001 "Toys as Interfaces to Computer Games"
  Entertainment in the Interactive Age, Los Angeles, CA, USA
 
2001 "Synthetic Characters, Entertainment and Film"
  Future Film Festival, Bologna, Italy
 
2000 "Putting the 'Living' in Living Architectures"
  Banff New Media Institute, Living Architectures Summit, Banff, Alberta, Canada
 
2000 "Compelling Synthetic Character Design"
  FMX2K, Stuttgart, Germany
 
2000 "Building Life-Like Characters"
  University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA (Paradigm Lecture Series)
 
1998 "On 'Shaft of Light'"
  Eliot House Senior Common Room, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
 
1998 "Toys with Character"
  Tokyo Toy Show, Tokyo, Japan
 
1996 "Making 'Shaft of Light'"
  Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden
 
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