Home page: http://ucmerced.academia.edu/MaurizioForte
Topics: Digital Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, Etruscology,
Cybernetics, Neuro-Art, Virtual Heritage, Serious Games, Virtual Reality
Maurizio Forte, PhD,
is William and Sue Gross Professor of Classical Studies Art, Art
History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. He is also the founder of the
DIG@Lab (for a digital knowledge of the past) at Duke.
He was professor of World Heritage at the University of California,
Merced, (School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts) and Director of the
Virtual Heritage Lab. He was Chief of Research at CNR (Italian National
Research Council) of “Virtual Heritage:
integrated digital technologies for knowledge and communication of cultural
heritage through virtual reality systems”, Senior Scientist at CNR’s Institute
for Technologies Applied to the Cultural Heritage (ITABC), and Professor of
"Virtual Environments for Cultural Heritage" in the “Master of
Science in Communication Technology-Enhanced Communication for Cultural
Heritage”at the University of Lugano. He
received his bachelor’s degree in Ancient History (archaeology), and a Diploma
of specialization in Archaeology, from the University of Bologna, and his PhD
in Archaeology from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He
has coordinated archaeological fieldwork and research projects in Italy as well as Ethiopia, Egypt, Syria,
Kazakhstan, Peru, China, Oman, India, Honduras, Turkey, USA and Mexico. He is editor and author of several books
including “Virtual Archaeology” (1996), Virtual Reality in Archaeology (2000),
“From Space to Place” (2006), “La Villa di Livia. Un
percorso di ricerca di archeologia virtual” (2008) and he has written more than
200 scientific papers.
Awards