计算机学院关于美国华盛顿大学David Salesin教授讲座的通知

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  时间:2007年5月17日16:00-17:00
  地点:紫金港校区图书信息中心B楼402
  题目: How to Write a SIGGRAPH Paper: A Guide to Choosing a Good Research Topic, Doing the Research & Writing it Up
  讲座人: David Salesin教授 (美国华盛顿大学)
  教授简介:
  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 also a Principal Scientist in the Advanced Technology Labs at Adobe Systems, where he has led the Graphics Research Group since 2005. He received his Sc.B. from Brown University in 1983, and his Ph.D. 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, while on the faculty at UW, he co-founded two companies, where he served as Chief Scientist: Inclination and Numinous Technologies (the latter acquired by Microsoft in 1999). From 1999-2005,while still on the faculty at UW, he worked as a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. Over the years, he has been a consultant at Sogitec Audiovisual in Paris, Aldus (now part of Adobe), Xerox PARC, Broderbund, and Microsoft Research. 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 1998-1999 Washington Professor of the Year Award in 1998; and the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2000. He was named a Guest Professor of Zhejiang University and an ACM Fellow in 2002.