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The purpose of this paper is to contemplate the birth of two related disciplines - digital media and dynamic media - by reflecting on fifteen years of experience at the University of Central Florida. During this interval, several research and creative initiatives converged, leading to today's School of Film and Digital Media with 25 faculties and nearly 1000 students.

A research testbed developed to investigate the use of virtual environment (VE) technology for army training is described. The objectives of the testbed and the first experiments conducted using the testbed are described, in which performance data is collected as participants complete a variety of basic tasks: vision (acuity, color vision, distance estimation, and search); location (walking and flying through structures); tracking and object manipulation (placing and keeping a cursor on an object, and using it to move objects); and reaction time. >

The authors describe the different approaches for supporting the various types of data and users that a company may have. They present a system overview of ROOMS (relational object-oriented management system) and discuss the methods that must be added to user-defined classes in order for them to be used in ROOMS. The options available for the record structure and the five basic relational algebra operations are covered. The authors provide a brief introduction to an encapsulated object-oriented programming system (EOOPS). EOOPS helps to solve the implementation problems that have been encountered in developing ROOMS and that should also be helpful in developing any large object-oriented application. >