[AG-TECH] Seminar: Bob Pette, Vice President, Silicon Graphics Visualization Group

Martin Turner Martin.Turner at manchester.ac.uk
Wed Nov 26 15:56:20 CST 2008


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Bob Pette, Vice President, Silicon Graphics Visualization Group,  1st December 2008, 4-5pm GMT Room 1:10, Kilburn Building The University of Manchester

"Bob Pette leads the Silicon Graphics Visualization Group, which is providing innovative solutions to help high-performance organizations work with rapidly growing volumes of visual information. In his 20-year career at Silicon Graphics, Bob worked directly with customers to design visualization solutions for industries ranging from aerospace design to energy exploration. Bob formed the Silicon Graphics Petroleum Technology Center to assist oil exploration, production and services companies with application benchmarking and development. As vice president of SGI Global Professional Services, Bob expanded the Silicon Graphics' visualization practice via the design, development and implementation of Reality Center environments, simulators, CAVE installations, and immersive auditoriums for the Louisiana Immersive Technology Enterprise, Air Force Research Laboratory, ADRIN (part of India's Department of Space), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., Sikorsky Aircraft, and several energy companies and automakers. Throughout his career at Silicon Graphics, Bob has held positions in Systems Engineering, Application and Solutions Development, Customer Benchmarking, Customer Services and Services and Sales Operations. Bob received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech and his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Tampa."

Part of the Access Grid enabled ACM University of Manchester Professional SIGGRAPH Chapter Seminar Series: http://manchester.siggraph.org/  

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Virtual Venue: Access Grid Support Centre Virtual Venue: University of Manchester Room1:10

Jabber Room: university-of-manchester-(1.10) (sam.ag.manchester.ac.uk)@conference.mcs.anl.gov

ScreenStreamer
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Yours,
Martin J. Turner
Visualization Team Leader
Research Computing Services
Devonshire House
The University of Manchester
Manchester, M13 9PL

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