@AnLeLu1 Orson Scott Card's father Willard is mentioned in this 1967 document by Columbia University: 8MM FILM-IN EDUCATION- ITS EMERGING ROLE. - files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED010…
@AnLeLu1 "[Page 5] Arizona State University - VERNON S. GERLACH
Professor Gerlach and Willard Card worked in Research and Development within the Educational Technology field. apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fullte…
I’m in a convention center in Orlando, Fla., at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference, the largest military simulation conference in the world...
@AnLeLu1 "I’ve just experienced the Army’s most lifelike training simulation yet: the Dismounted Soldier Training System which, after two years and US $57 million in development, will arrive at bases this year. [2013]"
@AnLeLu1 Yes, it’s the stuff of science fiction, most notably Ender’s Game, the best-selling 1985 novel by Orson Scott Card that has whiz-kid cadets fighting an alien space fleet through a video game..
@AnLeLu1 As Michael Macedonia, the former director of the Army’s simulation technology center, told The NYT in 2003, “Ender’s Game has had a lot of influence on our thinking. The intent is to build a simulation that allows people to play in that world for months or years,
@AnLeLu1 participate in different types of roles, and see consequences of their decisions.”
Ten years later, Macedonia’s vision is bearing fruit, driven in part by a strong appetite for the savings that simulations promise in a time of tight budgets.
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The Future of Food is a 2004 American documentary film written and directed by Deborah Koons Garcia to describe an investigation into unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods sold in grocery stores in the US en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Futur…
Yolanda King worked 32 Years in the U.S. Air Force
She was responsible for management of all Ballistic Missile Defense Organization technology programs and oversight of all Air Force Science and Technology programs "
"The University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a U.S. government–funded research and development organization in Playa Vista, Calif., that makes some of the most convincing military simulations around" spectrum.ieee.org/enders-game-is…
"Although simulations have been used in the military for decades, advances in mobile devices & computer graphics cards are helping sims replace live training for a wider range of roles than ever before, both on &off the battlefield..
Officers refine counseling and interrogation skills on artificially intelligent virtual humans. Commanders execute complex battle drills as if they were a giant round of World of Warcraft..