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Star Trek's "holodeck," an immersive and utterly realistic virtual environment, inspired Case Western Reserve University Assistant Professor Stacy Williams to conceptualize a virtual reality theater to help people with communications disorders (i.e., stuttering problems, high-functioning autism, recovering from strokes, etc.). Case Western has always been an advocate of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sci-Fi Today, Sci-Fact Tomorrow | 8/25/2006 | See Source »

With funding from Case Western, Williams found a technology company willing to try and turn her Trekkie fantasy into reality: VirTra Systems of Arlington, Texas, which specializes in the creation of virtual training systems for the U.S. military. VirTra and Williams collaborated to design a 180-degree, three-screen high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sci-Fi Today, Sci-Fact Tomorrow | 8/25/2006 | See Source »

At a small Hollywood studio, Williams and directors from other Case media institutions created three films for the IVR-Cave: two for speech therapy patients about ordering food at a McDonald's counter and drive-through, and a third for speech pathology students, about diagnosing a child with a communication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sci-Fi Today, Sci-Fact Tomorrow | 8/25/2006 | See Source »

Indicted in May for allegedly orchestrating a statewide patronage scheme, Fletcher won a courthouse reprieve earlier this month when a special judge ruled that he can't be prosecuted for official misconduct while in office. But State Senator David Williams, a fellow Republican, pointedly notes that the ruling does raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republican Woes in Kentucky | 8/23/2006 | See Source »

(2 of 2) Yet France remains surprisingly reluctant, given its diplomatic lead in pushing for the cease-fire. Malloch Brown said he was "disappointed" that Paris agreed to send only an additional 200 soldiers, far short of the 2,000 to 4,000 troops the U.N. hoped for. The opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Collective Inaction in Lebanon | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

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