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HRL and Malibu


The web site for HRL Laboratories

Click for an outdoor view of HRL's facilities in beautiful Malibu, California!
The top 10 questions I was asked about working in Malibu.

My account of the October 22, 1996 Malibu fire.

Views of Malibu from HRL:


Southeastern view toward LA coastline

Southern view toward Catalina and Malibu Colony

Western view toward Pepperdine

Some Los Angeles graphics research resources


LA SIGGRAPH is the local SIGGRAPH chapter

USC's Integrated Media Systems Center is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in the area of multimedia

USC's Institute for Creative Technologies is an Army lab for building new immersive technologies for Army training applications.

Some Los Angeles Asian-American resources


The Nikkei Bridge is a community service group for young adults serving the Japanese-American community.  I was an officer for two years.

The Asian Professional Exchange is a group geared to young professional Asians in LA.  It is a large group with many different events, including social and community service activities.

Cold Tofu is an improvisational and sketch comedy group

Hanashi is a group that is recording the oral histories of Japanese-American WW II veterans from the 100/442/MIS units.  These interviews will be used to educate people about their amazing accomplishments, which they performed despite the fact that most Japanese-Americans were wrongly imprisoned in concentration camps inside the US during WW II.  Learn more at the Go For Broke Education Foundation site.

Lodestone was an edgy Asian-American theater group.

The Japanese-American National Museum is in downtown LA, in the Little Tokyo area.

Go back to Ron Azuma's web page

* Last revised: Tue Dec. 18, 2010