Head of Education and Digital Media Resources, Hunterian
Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. In 1995, in association
with colleagues from the Department of Computing Science, Jim initiated
a collaborative program between the Hunterian and the University's Department
of Computing Science which has led to a wide variety of innovative multimedia
projects focussed around the Hunterian collections. This has included
an award winning web site incorporating audio, video and QuickTime Virtual
Reality.
Jim has been involved in the supervision of several
multimedia academic project teams with colleagues in the Computing Science
Department as part of an ongoing collaborative efforts in developing
new applications for leading edge technologies. More recently Jim has
led field expeditions to Knossos in Crete to create QTVR tours of the
Minoan palace complex on behalf of the Greek Ministry of Culture and
the British School of Archaeology in Athens.