William R.
Sherman has been named interim director of Desert Research Institute's modeling and visualization laboratory, which includes the proposed CAVE facility.
CAVE is aimed at improving DRI's ability to simulate real-world environments visually and to interact with those simulations in ways that reflect real-world circumstances.
Sherman, 40, who earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been affiliated with that university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications since 1989.
He is co-author of the 2003 book, "Understanding Virtual Reality: Interface, Application, and Design."
