Media Coverage of the Virtual Stuntman Project
The Associated Press interviewed Petros Faloutsos at UCLA on January 24,
2002. On 02/21/02 the AP released a story entitled "Virtual stunt artists
audition for the part" authored by Andrew Bridges. The story was featured in
various forms by news sources internationally, including the following (not a
complete list):
The CNN story spawned some interesting Slashdot discussion,
some of it hilarious.
Earlier, on January 17, 2002, a New Scientist
story entitled "Virtual stunt artists take first tumbles", authored by science
reporter Duncan Graham-Rowe, was featured in various forms by
The swedish magazine Elektronik Ljud \& Bild has also published an article
on the virtual stuntman.
A Computer Graphics World article entitled "Walk this way",
authored by Diana Phillips Mahoney, was published on 07/01/01. It was also featured
on 08/04/01 on ZDNet.
Petros Faloutsos was interviewed on the following TV programs:
- Daily Planet, Discovery Canada, November 18, 2002.
- NBC4 (Southern California), Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science,
by Scott Hanson. Interviewed March 25, 2002. Aired May 4, 2002, avi
realplayer.
- Fox (Los Angeles), 10 PM News story "Technology Replaces Stuntmen".
Aired April 7, 2002
- CNN, Science and Technology Report, by Brian Feeney and Tom Larson.
Interviewed March 12, 2002
- Discovery Canada, Beyond Invention: Artificial Intelligence, April 8, 2004.
He was interviewed on the following radio programs:
- BBC World Service, Outlook Programme. Aired January 28, 2002
- BBC World Service, Today Programme. Aired January 17, 2002
- Todd Mundt Show, National Programming. Aired Thursday October 21, 2002.
and he was also interviewed by
- Discovery Canada, January, 2002 and November,2002.
- American Institute of Physics, Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science,
January 2002
- CNet, Midday Show with Steve Kovsky and Desmond Crisis, March 8, 2002.
Petros Faloutsos