[AG-TECH] Access Grid Seminar

[Lee Margetts]

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Prof Ken Perlin, Department of Computer Science, New York University

Friday, 25th August 2006, 1400 - 1500 (UTC, GMT+1)

Room 1.10, Kilburn Building

Professor Ken Perlin, a leading figure in the world of computer-generated
animation, will be giving an impromptu talk on a subject of interest
during a flying visit to the U.K.

Ken Perlin <http://mrl.nyu.edu/perlin> is a professor in the Department
of Computer Science <http://cs.nyu.edu> at New York University
<http://www.nyu.edu>. He was founding director of the Media Research
Laboratory <http://mrl.nyu.edu> and also directed the NYU Center for
Advanced Technology from 1994-2004. His research interests include
graphics, animation, user interfaces, science education and multimedia.
In January 2004 he was the featured artist at the Whitney Museum of
American Art <http://artport.whitney.org/gatepages/january04.shtml>. In
2002 he received the NYC Mayor's award for excellence in Science and
Technology and the Sokol award for outstanding Science faculty at NYU.
In 1997 he won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his /noise/ and
/turbulence/ procedural texturing techniques, which are widely used in
feature films and television. In 1991 he received a Presidential Young
Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation.

Prof. Perlin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York
University in 1986, and a B.A. in theoretical mathematics from Harvard
University in 1979. He was Head of Software Development at R/GREENBERG
Associates in New York, NY from 1984 through 1987. Prior to that, from
1979 to 1984, he was the System Architect for computer generated
animation at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc., Elmsford, NY, where
the first feature film he worked on was TRON
<http://mrl.nyu.edu/perlin/tron>. He has served on the Board of
Directors of the New York chapter of ACM/SIGGRAPH, and currently serves
on the Board of Directors of the New York Software Industry Association.

Further information about Ken's research can be found at:
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/

More information about MC/ESMW seminars, including instructions for
joining by Access Grid, can be found at
http://www.mc.manchester.ac.uk/research/seminars/

Jon Gibson
Manchester Computing