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Mark Pesce is a cyberspace researcher
and theorist. After spending a decade working in data communications,
he left Shiva Corporation in 1991 to co-found Ono-Sendai Corporation,
an early virtual reality company. After leaving Ono-Sendai in 1993, Mr.
Pesce began work on Labyrinth, the prototype for Virtual Reality Modeling
Language. In 1994 he established the VRML mailing list on the Internet,
as a forum for the public discussion of all issues relating to |
| the advancement of VRML. Over the following two years, Mr.
Pesce helped the VRML grow into a full-fledged community, with outposts
in academia, commerce, and a world wide network of enthusiasts. In 1995,
New Riders Publishing released Mr. Pesce's first book, VRML, Browsing
and Building Cyberspace, critically hailed as an easily understood introduction
to the subject. A sought-after lecturer, Mr. Pesce has had the privledge
of being an invited speaker at all five International World Wide Web conferences.
He is a frequent contributor to magazines such as WIRED, Mondo 2000, Network
Computing, and Ziff-Davis' ZD Online service. Mr. Pesce works at BigBook,
Inc., in San Francisco. |