Michael Sullivan, Exploreum
Director."
The seven-year-old Gulf Coast Exploreum is the second science center in
Alabama to open an interactive Immersive Theater powered by SGI through
funding from NASA and administered by Sci-Quest in Huntsville.

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In the Exploreum 's upstairs Minds-On Hall, visitors
can view and participate in various interactive experiments including DNA
testing and radio-carbon dating of the preserved animal skin scrolls.
"The total immersion and unprecedented realism offered by SGI Reality
Center visualization solutions are changing the paradigm of what information
science centers, planetariums and museums present and how they present it,"
said Afshad Mistri, director of marketing, science centers, SGI.

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In medicine, in biochemistry ,
in so many different areas, what you can teach in this room is
phenomenal -- totally limitless ," said W. "I'm very bullish on the future and on the idea that we'll be doing
things in this theatre 10 years from now that we haven't even thought of yet.
In education, in science, in art, the Reality Center facility has terrific
possibilities. "Using the SGI Reality Center
facility, we will take people through this journey in time and space.

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Starting
tomorrow, January 21, the general public can visit the 50-seat theater, which
will hold four screenings an hour and will highlight the archeology , history
and religious significance of the temple. We have
the SGI Onyx system behind a glass wall so visitors can actually see the
computer that provides this incredible learning experience . Jared Diamond Scheduled to Appear

What: Members of the media are invited to attend an exclusive preview
of COLLAPSE? the major exhibition inspired by the ideas in Jared
Diamond's latest bestselling book, Collapse: How Societies
Choose to Fail or Succeed (published in 2005 by Viking Penguin)
produced by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Where: The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County , Special
Exhibits Gallery
900 Exposition Blvd. Jared Diamond
Natural History Museum: Jane Pisano, President +
Director
Vanda Vitali, VP, Public Programs

SAVE THE DATE
Jennifer Westfall, jwestfal@nhm.

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Gulf Coast Science Center Opens a Spectacular Immersive Theater Powered by SGI Technology That Allows Visitors to Experience Jerusalem - as It Stood in 1 AD

This groundbreaking exhibit examines how human societies have
recognized or ignored -- and solved or failed to solve -- key
environmental issues, including those that concern our
contemporary global society.org, (213) 763-3532
YOU MUST APPLY FOR CREDENTIALS TO ATTEND

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To further enhance the
public's experience of the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit, the Virtual Journeys
Immersive Theater features a guided interactive tour of the reconstructed
Herodian Temple Mount in Jerusalem as it existed 2000 years ago. "Gulf Coast
Exploreum joins many of the world's leading interactive educational
environments by offering a new level of exploration and understanding of the
world, allowing visitors to experience unreachable places billions of light
years away down to experiencing a DNA strand, all through the immersive and
interactive capabilities of SGI Reality Center."

Future Plans at Gulf Coast Exploreum
Gulf Coast Exploreum installed an SGI Reality Center facility. In addition to being a repository for
Immersive Theater shows, the Sci-Quest Immersive Theater Network enables
members to have collaborative shows, letting visitors interact and share the
experience of a live, collaborative show at Immersive Theaters located
anywhere in the world.

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With offices worldwide, the
company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. Major Exhibition Inspired by the Ideas in Jared Diamond's Latest Bestseller
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Dr.

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Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit and Virtual Tour of the Temple Mount Garners
50,000 Advance Ticket Sales

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.

NOTE: Silicon Graphics , SGI, Onyx, Reality Center, InfiniteReality, the
SGI cube and the SGI logo are registered trademarks and InfiniteReality3 and
The Source of Innovation and Discovery are trademarks of Silicon Graphics ,
Inc.

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Virtual Journeys will allow visitors at this and future exhibits to
experience and interact with scientific discoveries using the same SGI(R)
technology that leading researchers around the world depend on for
groundbreaking innovations in all areas of science. It's a
marriage of the actual artifacts from Qumran with the virtual understanding of
what it was like way back then , both from an architectural and historical
point of view, and from the point of view of religion .sgi.

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There isn't an archeological monument in the world that
couldn't use this technology.

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The exhibit includes a
fragment of a scroll containing passages from the Deuteronomy chapter of the
Hebrew and Christian Bible-the only scroll in existence with the entire text
of the Ten Commandments. In test runs, we've been very impressed with the power and speed of
the SGI technology; it's rock solid ., is a leader in high-performance
computing, visualization and storage.

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"The combination of
education and entertainment makes science immediately interesting in a way
textbooks cannot.

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"I truly believe museums with interactive SGI Reality Center environments
are going to become the museums of the future."
At the Exploreum, visiting students and the general public first enter the
Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit gallery featuring 12 large scrolls and artifacts from
the Qumran site where the scrolls may have originated. The first
interactive Immersive Theater, built around a Reality Center solution, opened
at Sci-Quest in the spring of 2003.

SILICON GRAPHICS | The Source of Innovation and Discovery(TM)
SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc., and can be found on the Web
at http://www., in the United States and/or other countries worldwide.

Visitors will
* Travel through present-day Montana (not as pristine as it
may seem)
* Investigate the fate of ancient Maya civilization
* Look to the radical, and successful, solutions of 17th and
18th century Japan
* Examine contemporary Australia's ongoing search for a
balanced approach to its environment
* Explore the Five Factors that contribute to societal
failure or success as identified by Dr.

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They can
then proceed to the approximately 2,000 sq. He credits the scrolls,
considered to be the finest archeological find of the 20th century, and the
SGI Reality Center presentation of the Temple Mount, re-created as Jesus
experienced the Temple in his time, with the tremendous excitement the science
center has generated.

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"
The Exploreum's Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition coupled with the Temple Mount
virtual tour has generated 50,000 advance ticket sales and is currently slated
to run through April 24, according to Sullivan. The Immersive Theater is officially called the
Hearin-Chandler Virtual Journeys Digital Theater. The data set is visualized through the
Immersive Theater using three Barco 3D Galaxy DLP (TM) projectors that display
images on a 120-degree curved screen, 13 feet high by 32 feet long, with a
16-foot radius. Diamond

The exhibit concludes with a virtual newsroom presenting current
issues facing Los Angeles and Southern California, which serves
as a forum for the ongoing debate over our relationship with the
environment and our possible futures.

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Using the SGI(R) Reality Center(R) facility, an Exploreum facilitator will
encourage questions and interaction from the audience. Because the Immersive Theater is based on the SGI
Reality Center solution, the Gulf Coast Exploreum can also utilize data sets
from other museums and the Virtual Science Network, an international alliance
of museums, science centers and research organizations, initiated by SGI,
intended to transform leading scientific discoveries into compelling visual
experiences for the general public.

COLLAPSE? Exhibition Media Preview - 4/29/05

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"Interactivity, or 'science in action,' is considered the future of
science education by many in the field," noted Sullivan. The interactive
Immersive Theater concept was developed by Sci-Quest in Huntsville. Since the NASA funding only covered the
cost of the computer hardware and SGI Professional Services installation, Gulf
Coast Exploreum received additional funding for the other components of the
theater (everything from seating to fire extinguishers) from the Hearin-
Chandler Foundation in Mobile.

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While the Temple Mount is a 2D data set, the Exploreum plans
to utilize its membership in the Sci-Quest Immersive Theater Network this
summer by showing 3D interactive data sets such as Cosmic Connections, Inside
the Human Body, and Earth Journey, which are available as part of the
Sci-Quest Immersive Theater Network.com., Los Angeles, CA 90007
*Please park in the staff overflow parking lot off Menlo, just
north of Vermont at Exposition Boulevard.

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, The largest touring
exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls and related artifacts ever seen in the
United States arrives today at the Gulf Coast Exploreum science center in
Mobile, Ala.

The facilitator acts as
tour guide and, with just a click of the mouse in the Reality Center facility ,
can take the audience, based on their areas of interest, just about anywhere
they may want to go within the Temple Mount real-time visual simulation model. And now, with Virtual Journeys, we have added the
visualization element, which is how real science is conducted today. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil
more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland
security and defense or enabling the transition from analog to digital
broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for
scientific, engineering and creative users.

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Part of the Exploreum's Gala Opening tonight is the unveiling of
the Exploreum 's brand new Virtual Journeys Immersive Theater, powered by a
visualization system from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI). SGI's vision is to provide technology
that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the
21st century. All other
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"We have five busses coming from a synagogue in Miami, plus many church
groups, some as far away as Memphis, and Cincinnati, and many more schools,
colleges and universities," said Sullivan.

When: Friday, April 29, 2005 - 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
*Photo opportunity at 10:30 AM promptly followed by Dr. Jared
Diamond 's media briefing. Curators and select Museum staff
available for brief interviews .

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Continental breakfast will be served.

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The data set even includes differing opinions on the archaeological finds,
which can be pointed out both visually and verbally during the presentation . We're showing a
wonderful, really solid data set of the Temple Mount, which was developed
jointly by the Urban Simulation Team at UCLA and the Israel Antiquities
Authority.org, (213) 763-3538
Lauren Clark, lclark@nhm.

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foot Virtual Journeys Immersive
Theater for the 8 to 9 minute interactive presentation. powered by
an 8-processor SGI(R) Onyx(R) visualization system with three SGI(R)
InfiniteReality3 (TM) graphics pipes. Enter through staff
entrance

Expected to attend: Author: Dr.