Broad Area Colloquium For AI-Geometry-Graphics-Robotics-Vision
Next Frontier in Graphics: Unleashing the Computer's
Potential for Communication
David Salesin
University of Washington and Microsoft Research
Monday, February 3, 2003, 4:15PM
TCSeq 201
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
Abstract
In this talk, David Salesin claims that the real market for computers
lies in their vast potential as a communications medium. Already,
millions of PowerPoint presentations are made each day, hundreds of
thousands of documents are archived online, and billions of Web pages
are searched. Yet, so far, computers are used largely just to emulate
the appearance of existing, physical media, such as slide
transparencies or 8½"x11" sheets of paper. Drawing upon examples that
range from computer-generated illustration and virtual cinematography
to adaptive document layout and animated presentations, Salesin
discusses some of the research challenges he sees in harnessing the
power of the computer to create more powerful communications media
than exist today.
About the Speaker
David Salesin is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science &
Engineering at the University of Washington, where he has been on the
faculty since 1992, and a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research,
where he has also worked since 1999. He received his ScB from Brown
University in 1983, and his PhD from Stanford University in 1991. From
1983-87, he worked at Lucasfilm and Pixar, where he contributed
computer animation for the Academy Award-winning short film, Tin
Toy, and the feature-length film, Young Sherlock Holmes. During his
years at Stanford, he also worked as an intern at the DEC Systems
Research Center and Paris Research Lab. He spent the 1991-92 year as a
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program of Computer Graphics at
Cornell University. In 1996, he co-founded two companies, where he
served as Chief Scientist: Inklination and Numinous Technologies
(acquired by Microsoft in 1999).
Salesin received an NSF Young Investigator award in 1993; an ONR Young
Investigator Award, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and an NSF
Presidential Faculty Fellow Award in 1995; the University of
Washington Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in the College of
Engineering in 1996; the University of Washington Distinguished
Teaching Award in 1997; The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education
Washington Professor of the Year Award in 1998; the ACM SIGGRAPH
Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2000; and he became an ACM
Fellow in 2002.
Salesin's research interests are in computer graphics, and include, in
particular, non-photorealistic rendering, image-based rendering, and
various topics in 2D graphics like color reproduction, digital
typography, and compositing. His outside interests include Aikido,
photography, printmaking, piano, saxophone, flying, traveling,
cooking, old films, backpacking, skiing, mountain biking, and
chocolate.
Contact: bac-coordinators@cs.stanford.edu
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