Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully wish to acknowledge the following contributors to the development of the three projects that form the core content of this book.

Department of Defense

Dr. Anita Jones

Dr. Judith Dahmann

Del Lunceford

United States Army

Dr. Michael Andrews

Dr. Michael Macedonia

Dr. James T. Blake, Ph.D.

Dr. Kent Pickett

Dr. Stanley M. Halpin

Dr. Stephen L. Goldberg

James (Pat) O’Neal, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Retired)

Forrest Crane (Retired)

Susan Harkrider

LTC Donna Brazil

Industrial College of the Armed Forces

Dr. Alan Whittaker

Mitre Corporation

Marnie Salisbury

Paramount Simulation Group

Dr. Gershon Weltman

Janet Herrington

Larry Tuch

Nathaniel Fast

Alex Singer

Harry Dorsey

Roland Lesterlin

Florence Maggio

Judith Singer

Paramount Television

Kerry McCluggage

Steve Goldman

Bob Sheehan

Bruce Pottash

Kim Fitzgerald

Stephen Sacks

Carolyn Petty

Paramount Pictures

Tom McGrath

Bruce Toby

Paramount Digital Entertainment

David Wertheimer

Leonard Washington

Marc Wade

Mark Tapio Kines

Erin Powers

Mark Goffman

Institute for Creative Technologies—University of Southern California

Richard Lindheim

David Wertheimer

Dr. Andrew Gordon

Dr. William R. Swartout

Dr. Randy Hill

Dr. Michael van Lent

Martin van Velsen

Kurosh ValaNejad

David Hendrie

Paul Carpenter

David Miraglia

Travis Castillo

Ian Mankowski

Yuki Miyaki

Richard Almodovar

Hafid Roserie

Alan Lee

Laurie Swanson

Regina Cabrera

University of Southern California

Dr. Paul Rosenbloom

Dr. Patricia Riley

Dr. W. Louis Johnson

ICT Research Assistants

Arnav Jhala

Brian Magerko

Keith Miron

Tim Smith

United States Army Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM)

United States Army Simulation and Technology Training Center (STTC)

The authors also wish to acknowledge the Wikipedia website (http://www.wikipedia.org) and the online archives of Game Developer magazine as significant aids in researching and verifying information; along with Greg Roach’s generous sharing of his ideas regarding media costs and benefits while teaching alongside him at USC’s School of Cinema-Television.

All images and graphics from the Leaders, ALTSIM and Final Flurry projects are used by permission of Paramount Pictures.