Richard (Dick) Waters

MERL Headquarters
President & Chief Executive Officer; Research Fellow
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978

Phone: (617) 621-7508
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Dick Waters received his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence (AI). For the next 13 years he worked at the MIT AI Lab as a Research Scientist and co-principal investigator of the Programmer's Apprentice project. Dick was a founding member of the MERL Research Lab in 1991. As a MERL researcher his work centered on multi-user interactive environments for work, learning, and play. In January 1998, Dick became Director of the MERL Research Lab. In December 1999, he became CEO of MERL as a whole.

Technical Reports:
TR2003-000	MERL Annual Report
TR1997-011	The ANSI C (Internal) Spline Version 3.0 Application Program Interface
TR1997-010	The Interactive Sharing Transfer Protocol Version 1.0
TR1996-017	QOTA: A Fast, Multi-Purpose Algorithm For Terrain Following in Virtual Environments
TR1996-009	Time Synchronization in Spline
TR1996-002a	Diamond Park and Spline: A Social Virtual Reality System with 3D Animation, Spoken Interaction, and Runtime Modifiability
TR1995-017	Building Multi-User Interactive Multimedia Environments at MERL
TR1995-016a	Locales and Beacons: Efficient and Precise Support For Large Multi-User Virtual Environments
TR1994-013	Tree Insertion Grammar: A Cubic-Time Parsable Formalism That Lexicalizes Context-Free Grammar without Changing the Trees Produced
TR1994-004	The Audio Interactive Tutor
TR1993-017	Some Useful Lisp Algorithms: Part 2
TR1993-012	Stochastic Lexicalized Context-Free Grammar
TR1993-004	Lexicalized Context-Free Grammar: A Cubic-Time Parsable, Lexicalized Normal Form for Context-Free Grammar That Preserves Tree Structure
TR1993-002	Challenges to the Field of Reverse Engineering
TR1992-004	Approaches to Automatic Programming
TR1991-004	Some Useful Lisp Algorithms: Part 1
TR1991-003	Knowledge-Intensive Software Engineering Tools
TR1991-001	Cliche-Based Program Editing