Autor: Vincent Gaffney

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Professor Eugene Ch’ng graduated with a best Ph D from the Electronics, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Birmingham in 2007. He has 20 years of interdisciplinary research experience, with formal training in art and design, design for the built environment, computational sciences, and humanities and social sciences research. He is founding director for both the NVIDIA Joint-Lab on Mixed Reality and the Digital Heritage Centre, both at the University of Nottingham’s China campus. Professor Ch’ng’s research focuses on VR and Mixed Reality. He is editor in chief for PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality MIT Press, the longest established journal on VR research. He has authored over 120 publications and has led international grant-funded research which establishes cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaboration, pioneering the development and adoption of digital technologies across all areas and activities within the cultural heritage domain. Henry Chapman is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Birmingham. Following an undergraduate degree in Archaeology at the University of Exeter, he moved to the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England. Based within their Exeter office, he worked as an archaeological landscape investigator before moving to the University of Hull as a member of the English Heritage funded Humber Wetlands Project, and undertaking a Ph D focusing on the application of GIS in landscape archaeology at the same time. Henry subsequently working on various other wetland archaeology projects at the University of Hull, before moving to Birmingham, initially as part of “Visual and Spatial Technology Centre” (Vista). He was a founding director of the Digital Humanities Hub, before becoming a lecturer. With a primary focus on later prehistory and wetland archaeology, and applied digital technologies, his research centres on the use of GIS, technical survey, and other digital technologies for the study of the past. Professor Vincent Gaffney is Anniversary Chair in Landscape Archaeology at the Department of Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bradford. His undergraduate degree was taken at the University of Reading, and, following fieldwork at Stonehenge and on the Berkshire Downs, he spent a number of years in museums. Deciding to study for a Ph D at Reading he moved to former Yugoslavia, was based in Ljubljana (Slovenia), but worked on the island of Hvar in Croatia. On returning to Britain, he worked at the University of Birmingham before moving to the University of Bradford. His research has included studies of Roman urbanisation at Wroxeter, survey of Diocletian’s Mausoleum, the wetland landscape of the river Cetina (Croatia), fieldwork in Italy and historic landscape characterisation at Fort Hood (Texas). An early adopter of GIS in archaeology, and an advocate of digital applications in heritage research, he founded the ”Visual and Spatial Technology Centre” (Vista) at Birmingham, and is now part of the “Visualising Heritage” team at Bradford. He leads the UK team within the UK/LBI_Arch Pro “Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes” project, and is Principal Investigator on the ERC Advanced Grant project ‘Europe’s Lost Frontiers’. Professor Andrew S. Wilson, MCIf A, FHEA is an Archaeologist and Heritage Scientist with wide-ranging research interests in Digital Heritage, Human Bioarchaeology, Conservation, Taphonomy, and Forensic Archaeology. He is based in the School of Archaeological & Forensic Sciences at the University of Bradford. He trained in Conservation at UCL Institute of Archaeology and in Human Bioarchaeology at Sheffield and Bradford. He has worked for the Smithsonian Institution, Wiltshire County Council Conservation Service and in commercial archaeology. Awards include Museums & Galleries Commission National Conservation Award (1999); World’s Archaeological Research Awards (2017); and ALT Learning Technologistof the Year Research Award (2020 – Highly Commended); His research has featured in major interdisciplinary publications including Nature, Science, PNAS, Current Biology, Nature Scientific Reports, PLo SONE. He is Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of World Prehistory and a member of the Forensic Archaeology Expert Panel for CIf A. He Co-Directs Visualising Heritage with varied imaging and visualisation capabilities at the University of Bradford and has led landmark Digital Heritage projects with research funding from sources including AHRC, Jisc, GCRF, British Academy, HEIF, The Wellcome Trust, Research England, Historic Environment Scotland, Shetland Amenity Trust, HS2 and City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council.  




4 Ebooks de Vincent Gaffney

Eugene Ch’ng & Vincent Gaffney: Visual Heritage in the Digital Age
Heritage is everywhere, and an understanding of our past is increasingly critical to the understanding of our contemporary cultural context and place in global society. Visual Heritage in the Digital …
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Simon Finch & Vincent Gaffney: Mapping Doggerland: The Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea
12, 000 years ago the area that now forms the southern North Sea was dry land: a vast plain populated by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. By 5, 500 BC the entire area had disappeared beneath the sea as a …
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Eugene Ch’ng & Henry Chapman: Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science
How we understand our shared and individual heritage, interpret and disseminate that knowledge is increasingly central to contemporary society.  The emerging context for such development is the …
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€213.99
Simon Fitch & Vincent Gaffney: Europe’s Lost Frontiers: Volume 1
Europe’s Lost Frontiers was the largest directed archaeological research project undertaken in Europe to investigate the inundated landscapes of the Early Holocene North Sea – the area frequently ref …
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