Dr ALVY RAY SMITH-CURRICULUM VITÆ
EDUCATION (see Honorary Doctorates)
1967-1970 |
PhD, Stanford University. Dissertation: Cellular Automata Theory. Advisor: Michael A Arbib. Committee: Edward J McCluskey, James F Gibbons |
1966 |
MS, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA |
1961-1965 |
BSEE, New Mexico State University, with High Honors, Las Cruces NM |
1949-1961 |
Graduate, Public School System, Clovis NM |
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY (see Bio)
2015-now |
Baobab Studios |
Advisor, Member Board of Advisors. Character animation for VR. See www.BaobabStudios.com. |
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2000-now |
ars longa |
Founder and President. Historical writing. Digital photography. Scholarly genealogy. |
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1994-2000 |
Microsoft Corp |
Graphics Fellow (Microsoft’s first). Articulated the Microsoft media creation vision, The Single Creative App, evangelized progressive digital TV, incorporated Altamira Composer concepts into Microsoft products Picture It, Image Composer, and PhotoDraw, and into Windows graphic subsystems, obtained patents, and wrote research papers. |
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1991-1994 |
Altamira Software Corp |
Cofounder, President, and Board Member. Wrote product prototype for Altamira Composer, developed business plan, raised seed, second-round, and angel financing, hired personnel, helped develop product, plus all other aspects of a classic Silicon Valley startup. Sold Altamira to Microsoft in Sep 1994 |
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1986-1991 |
Pixar |
Cofounder, Executive Vice President, and Board Member. Managed half of the company: computer software and hardware engineering, laser engineering, computer graphics research, computer graphics production; negotiated Disney CAPS deal. My partner, Ed Catmull, President, managed the other half: finance, sales, marketing, manufacturing, administration, personnel, support. Negotiated (with Ed Catmull) the Pixar spinoff from Lucasfilm and funding (by Steve Jobs) - see Pixar founding documents and Pixar organization chart. |
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1980-1986 |
Lucasfilm Ltd |
Computer Division (now part of Industrial Light & Magic division). Director of Computer Graphics Research. Managed all aspects of computer graphics for Lucasfilm: research and development, production, finance and personnel for computer graphics research and animation, equipment specification and purchase. Directed feature film animation. For clarity, other parts of the Computer Division were video editing, digital audio, and games. Made original approach (with Ed Catmull) to Lucasfilm |
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1979 |
California Institute of Technology (CalTech) |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Consultant, Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series for the Public Broadcasting System |
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1975-1979 |
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) |
Computer Graphics Laboratory. Senior Scientist |
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1974-1975 |
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) |
Computer Sciences Laboratory. Visiting Scientist |
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1974 |
University of California at Berkeley |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Visiting Associate Professor |
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1969-1973 |
New York University |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Associate Professor |
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1965-1969 |
Stanford University |
Fellowship |
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1962-1965 |
New Mexico State University |
Physical Sciences Laboratory, Electromagnetics Section. Junior Engineer |
HONORS (see Awards)
| 2022 | Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, LI, NY, 22 May 2022 |
| 2018 | Elected to the Siggraph Academy, Aug 2018, inducted Vancouver BC, 13 Aug 2018, "for seminal contributions to computer paint systems" |
| 2013 | Elected Fellow of the AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Oct 2013, inducted Chicago, Feb 2014 |
| 2012b | Circle of Honor, College of Engineering, NMSU, 26 Oct 2012 |
| 2012a | DiMe Lifetime Achievement Award, Digital Medium Symposium, Boulder International Film Festival, Boulder CO, 17 Feb 2012 |
| 2011 | Special Award, Mundos Digitales, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 9 Jul 2011 |
| 2010c | Inducted into the Hall of Honors, Clovis High School, Dec 2010 |
| 2010b | Elected Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists (FASG), Pittsfield MA, 9 Oct 2010 |
| 2010a | Washington Award, Western Society of Engineers, Chicago IL, 19 Feb 2010 |
| 2007 | Donald Lines Jacobus Award, American Society of Genealogists, Salt Lake City UT, Oct 2007 |
| 2006 | Elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, 10 Feb 2006. "For the development of digital imaging, compositing, and painting that have led to fundamental changes in the graphic arts and motion picture industries." Inducted 15 Oct 2006, Washington DC. |
| 2004d | Honorary lifetime membership, The Old Derby Historical Society, Derby CT, 22 Nov 2004 |
| 2004c | Inducted into the CRN Industry Hall of Fame, Computer Museum, Mountain View CA, 16 Nov 2004 |
| 2004b | 2004 Award for Excellence, Genealogy and Family History, National Genealogical Society, Sacramento CA, May 2004 |
| 2004a | Grand prize, literary contest 2004 (co-winner with Raymond Gordon Dawes), Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Berlin CT, May 2004 |
| 2001 | Bromilow Lecturer, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM, Feb 2001 |
| 1999 | Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM, Dec 1999 |
| 1999 | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Scientific or Technical Awards. Winner of Technical Academy Award Plaque (with Tom Porter and Dick Shoup) for Digital Paint Systems as fundamental filmmaking technology. Beverly Hills CA, Feb 1998. The award is officially known as the Academy’s "Scientific and Engineering Award" |
| 1997 | Forsythe Lecturer, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, Mar 1997 |
| 1996 | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Scientific or Technical Awards. Winner of Technical Academy Award Plaque (with Ed Catmull, Tom Porter, and Tom Duff) for Digital Image Compositing advances in filmmaking (the invention of the alpha channel). Beverly Hills CA, Mar 1996. The award is officially known as the Academy’s "Scientific and Engineering Award" |
| 1990 | Computer Graphics Achievement Award (with Dr Richard G Shoup), SIGGRAPH 90, Dallas TX, Aug 1990. For "seminal contributions to Computer Paint Systems" |
MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS (see Papers)
2021c |
Pixel: a biography |
Aeon+Psyche (online magazine), 20 Aug 2021. See https://aeon.co/essays/a-biography-of-the-pixel-the-elementary-particle-of-pictures |
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2021b |
The Real Story of Pixar: How a bad hardware company turned itself into a great movie studio |
IEEE Spectrum (online magazine), 3 Aug 2021. See https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-real-story-of-pixar |
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2021a |
A Biography of the Pixel |
MIT Press, a Leonardo book, Cambridge, MA, 3 Aug 2021. |
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2016 |
The Dawn of Digital Light |
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 38,4(2016):74-91 |
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2015 |
A Taxonomy and Genealogy of Digital Light-Based Technologies, Chapter 1 of |
Digital Light, eds. Sean Cubitt, Daniel Palmer, and Nathaniel Tkacz, London: Open Humanities Press, 2015, 21-42 |
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2014 |
His Just Deserts, a book review of four Turing books |
Notices of the AMS (American Mathematical Society), 61,8(Sept. 2014):891-895 [the issue's cover is based on the review] |
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2013b |
How Pixar Used Moore's Law to Predict the Future |
Wired Online, www.wired.com, Opinion, 17 Apr 2013. See https://www.wired.com/2013/04/how-pixar-used-moores-law-to-predict-the-future/ |
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2013a |
Why Do Movies Move? |
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works, John Brockman, ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 2013. 269-272 |
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2011 |
The Curious Door: Charles Dodgson & the Iffley Yew |
Knight Letter (The Lewis Carroll Society of North America), Vol 2, Issue 17, No 87, 17-24, Winter 2011, with Alison Gopnik |
COMPUTER GRAPHICS PUBLICATIONS (see Papers)
(SIGGRAPH = Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics of the Association for Computing Machinery)
2022 |
More from Moore's Law: The Journey to Toy Story and Implications for Radiology |
Journal of the American College of Radiology, 19,4(15 Feb 2022):592-593, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacr.2022.01.009. With Elias Lugo-Fagundo, Elliot K. Fishman, Steven P. Rowe, and Linda C. Chu. |
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2021b |
Pixel: a biography |
Aeon+Psyche (online magazine), 20 Aug 2021. See https://aeon.co/essays/a-biography-of-the-pixel-the-elementary-particle-of-pictures |
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2021a |
The Real Story of Pixar: How a bad hardware company turned itself into a great movie studio |
IEEE Spectrum (online magazine), 3 Aug 2021. See https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-real-story-of-pixar |
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2016 |
The Dawn of Digital Light |
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 38,4(2016):74-91 |
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2002 |
The Reality of Simulated Actors |
Communications of the ACM, Vol 45, No 7, Jul 2001, 36-9 |
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2001 |
Digital Paint Systems: An Anecdotal and Historical Overview |
IEEE Annals of Computing, Vol 23, No 2, Apr-Jun 2001, 4-30 (and cover) |
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2000c |
Humans Wait in the Wings |
Scientific American, Nov 2000, 72-78 |
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2000b |
Infinite Regular Hexagon Sequences on a Triangle |
Experimental Mathematics, Vol 9, No 3, Nov 2000, 397-406 |
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2000a |
Man's Most Malleable [a poem] |
Tools of Vision, by Neelon Crawford, exhibition catalog, photographic exhibit, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, Sep 2000 - Jan 2001 |
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1998c |
The Stuff of Dreams |
Computer Graphics World, Jul 1998, 27-29 |
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1998b |
The [alpha][delta][gamma]’s of Digital Media Convergence |
Proceedings Graphics Interface ’98 (18-20 Jun 1998, Vancouver, BC), editors: W Davis, K Booth, and A Fournier, 51-56 |
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1998a |
George Lucas Discovers Computer Graphics |
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol 20, No 2, 1998, 48-49. In Graphics Remembrances, compiled by Jules Bloomenthal, 35-51 |
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1997 |
FCC Forces Digital TV |
Wide Gauge Film and Video Monthly, Vol 2, No 4, Apr 1997 |
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1996b |
Blue Screen Matting |
SIGGRAPH 96 Conference Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, Aug 1996, 259-268. With James F Blinn |
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1996a |
HWB—A More Intuitive Hue-Based Color Model |
the journal of graphics tools, Vol 1, No 1, 1996, 3-17. With Eric R Lyons |
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1990 |
Review of The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants |
by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990, in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Jul 1990, 85-86 |
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1988 |
Geometry and Imaging |
Computer Graphics World, Nov 1988, 90-94. Also Geometry and Imaging—Two Distinct Kinds of Graphics, Proceedings of the Nippon Computer Graphics Conference (NICOGRAPH 88), Nov 1988, 229-239. Also Geometry vs Imaging—Extended Abstract, Visualization in Supercomputing, ed. Raul H. Mendez, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990, 151-156 |
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1987b |
Planar 2-Pass Texture Mapping and Warping |
Computer Graphics, Vol 21, No 4, Jul 1987, 263-272 (SIGGRAPH 87 Conference Proceedings) |
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1987a |
The Video Computer: Image Computing in the Studio |
Television Technology: A Look Toward the 21st Century, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), Feb 1987, 23-27 (selections from the 21st Annual SMPTE Television Conference, San Francisco). Also in SMPTE Journal, Vol 97, No 3, Mar 1988, 207-208 |
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1986 |
Creating the General-Purpose Image Computer |
Computer Graphics World, Jun 1986, 63-64 |
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1984 |
Plants, Fractals, and Formal Languages |
Computer Graphics, Vol 18, No 3, Jul 1984, 1-10 (SIGGRAPH 84 Conference Proceedings). Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 84 |
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1983b |
Computer Power for Film and Flight |
Supercomputers, hearings before the Committee on Science and Technology, US House of Representatives, 98th Congress, No 47, US Government Printing Office, Nov 15-16, 1983, 242-246. Reprinted in Telematics and Informatics, Vol 2, No 4, 1985, 293-398 |
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1983a |
Digital Filmmaking |
Abacus, Vol 1, No 1, Fall 1983, 28-45 (cover story) |
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1982c |
3-D Animation Tutorial |
Proceedings of the Nippon Computer Graphics Conference (NICOGRAPH 82), Tokyo, Japan, Nov 1982, 11 pages |
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1982b |
Special Effects for Star Trek II: The Genesis Demo, Instant Evolution with Computer Graphics |
American Cinematographer, Vol 63, No 10, Oct 1982, 1038-1039, 1048-1050 |
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1982a |
Paint |
Tutorial: Computer Graphics, eds. John C Beatty and Kellogg S Booth, IEEE Computer Society Press, Silver Spring, MD, 2d edition, 1982. Also in Seminal Graphics: Pioneering Efforts That Shaped the Field, ed. Rosalee Wolfe, ACM SIGGRAPH, 1998, 427-441. Reprint of New York Tech Memo 7 (see 1978b in Computer Graphics Memos section) |
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1981 |
Computers in Filmmaking |
Computer Graphics Manual, Jan 1981, 108-112 (Proceedings of ComputerVision 81) |
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1980 |
3-D Transformations of Images in Scanline Order |
Computer Graphics, Vol 14, No 3, Jul 1980, 279-285 (SIGGRAPH 80 Conference Proceedings). With Ed Catmull. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 82 |
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1979 |
Tint Fill |
Computer Graphics, Vol 13, No 2, Aug 1979, 276-283 (SIGGRAPH 79 Conference Proceedings) |
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1978 |
Color Gamut Transform Pairs |
Computer Graphics, Vol 12, No 3, Aug 1978, 12-19 (SIGGRAPH 78 Conference Proceedings). Reprinted in Tutorial: Computer Graphics, eds. John C Beatty and Kellogg S Booth, IEEE Computer Society Press, Silver Spring, MD, 2d edition, 1982, 376-383 (but this item is missing from the table of contents) |
COMPUTER GRAPHICS MEMOS AND TUTORIAL NOTES (see Memos)
(NYIT = New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY 11568)
1998d |
Should Alpha Be Nonlinear If RGB Is? |
Memo 17 (out of sequence), Microsoft, Dec 1998 |
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1998c |
Eigenpolygon Decomposition of Polygons |
Memo 19, Microsoft, Oct 1998. Led directly to Fourier Polygons, Andrew Glassner, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Jan-Feb 1999, 84-91 |
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1998b |
An Alternative View of the Workspace |
Memo 18 (Memo 17 out of sequence), Microsoft, Oct 1998 |
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1998a |
The Vision Revisited: Animation Possibilities |
Memo 16, Microsoft, Oct 1998 |
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1997b |
The General Matting Case with n Backings |
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Memo 15, Microsoft, Jun 1997 |
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1997a |
Digital Paint Systems—Historical Overview |
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Memo 14 (Memo 13 not completed), Microsoft, May 1997 |
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1996b |
Image Sprite Functions |
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Memo 12, Microsoft, Jun 1996 |
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1996a |
Blue Screen Matting |
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Memo 11, Microsoft, Jan 1996. With James Blinn |
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1995h |
5x5 Matrix Transformations for 4D Spacetime |
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Memo 10, Microsoft, Oct 1995 |
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1995g |
Gamma Correction |
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Memo 9, Microsoft, Sep 1995 |
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1995f |
Varieties of Digital Painting |
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Memo 8, Microsoft, Aug 1995 |
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1995e |
Alpha and the History of Digital Compositing |
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Memo 7, Microsoft, Aug 1995 |
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1995d |
A Pixel is Not a Little Square, a Pixel is Not a Little Square, a Pixel is Not a Little Square! (and a Voxel is Not a Little Cube) |
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Memo 6, Microsoft, Jul 1995 |
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1995c |
A Sprite Theory of Image Computing |
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Memo 5, Microsoft, Jul 1995 |
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1995b |
Image Compositing Fundamentals |
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Memo 4, Microsoft, Jul 1995 |
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1995a |
Animation Studio Design: Conventional and Digital |
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Memo 3, Microsoft, Jan 1995 |
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1994b |
Microsoft Media, The Vision (MS MTV): Prototypical Scenario and Basic Model |
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Memo 2, Microsoft, Nov 1994 (with Nicholas Clay) |
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1994a |
Microsoft Media, The Vision (MS MTV): Preliminaries |
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Memo 1, Microsoft, Oct 1994 |
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1993 |
Animation |
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Tech Memo 2, Altamira, Nov 1993 |
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1992b |
Altamira Composer and Animation |
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Tech Memo 1, Altamira, Nov 1992 (2d revision) |
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1992a |
Hwb - A More Intuitive Hue-Based Color Model |
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Tech Memo 0, Altamira, Sep 1992 (2d revision) (with Eric Lyons) |
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1990 |
An RGBA Window System, Featuring Prioritized Full Color Images of Arbitrary Shape and Transparency and a Novel Picking Scheme for Them |
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Tech Memo 221, Pixar, Jul 1990 |
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1989g |
Two Useful Box Routines |
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Tech Memo 216, Pixar, Jun 1988 to Dec 1989 |
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1989f |
First Experiences Coding an IceMan Application |
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Tech Memo 213, Pixar, Oct 1989 |
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1989e |
The Color Page Computer |
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Tech Memo 208, Pixar, Mar 1988. Revised Jan 1989 |
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1989d |
An Aspen Synopsis |
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Tech Memo 206, Pixar, Jun 1988 to Feb 1989 |
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1989c |
A Vail Synopsis |
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Tech Memo 205, Pixar, Jun 1988 to Jan 1989 |
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1989b |
Vail—The IceMan Volume and Imaging Language, Chapters 1-3 |
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Tech Memo 203, Pixar, Jun 1988 to Jan 1989 |
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1989a |
The Tenets of IceMan |
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Tech Memo 202, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jan 1989 |
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1988e |
Vail—The IceMan Volume and Imaging Language |
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Tech Memo 201, Pixar, Sep 1988 |
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1988d |
The ICXL (“Icicle”) Image Computing Exchange Language |
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Tech Memo 200, Pixar, Jun 1988 |
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1988c |
Thoughts on ICE—VI |
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Tech Memo 198, Pixar, Jan 1988 |
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1988b |
Thoughts on ICE—V |
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Tech Memo 197, Pixar, Jan 1988 |
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1988a |
Thoughts on ICE—IV |
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Tech Memo 196, Pixar, Jan 1988 |
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1987f |
Thoughts on ICE—III |
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Tech Memo 195, Pixar, Dec 1987. Revised Jan 1988 |
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1987e |
Thoughts on ICE—II |
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Tech Memo 194, Pixar, Dec 1987. Revised Jan 1988 |
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1987d |
Thoughts on ICE |
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Tech Memo 193, Pixar, Dec 1987 |
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1987c |
The Pixar in Printing and Photography |
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Tech Memo 184, Pixar, Nov 1987 |
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1987b |
Formal Geometric Languages for Natural Phenomena |
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Tech Memo 182, Pixar, May 1987. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 87 |
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1987a |
Volume Graphics and Volume Visualization: A Tutorial |
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Tech Memo 176, Pixar, May 1987. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 87 |
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1986b |
3-D Quadrics Are 2-Pass Transformable |
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Tech Memo 162, Pixar, Aug 1986 |
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1986a |
Proposed Feature Set for Pixar2 |
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Tech Memo 160, Pixar, Jul 1986 |
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1985d |
An AARG Tutorial |
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Tech Memo 167 [sic], Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Sep 1985 |
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1985c |
Series vs Parallel Warps |
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Tech Memo 134, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jun 1985 |
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1985b |
A 2-Pass Solution to the Planar Bicubic Patch |
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Tech Memo 132, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jun 1985 |
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1985a |
A 2-Pass Solution to the Planar Biquadratic Patch |
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Tech Memo 128, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1985 |
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1984e |
Plants and Trees Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 115, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jul 1984. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 84 |
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1984d |
Graftal Formalism Notes |
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Tech Memo 114, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1984. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 84 and 85 |
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1984c |
Pixar Technology Transfer |
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Tech Memo 113, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1984 |
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1984b |
An Algebra for Azimuth, Pitch, and Roll |
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Tech Memo 112, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Mar 1984 |
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1984a |
Replacing Square Roots by Pythagorean Sums |
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Tech Memo 111, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jan 1984 |
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1983j |
Plants, Fractals, and Formal Languages |
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Tech Memo 100, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Nov 1983 |
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1983i |
Supercomputers for Film and Flight |
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Tech Memo 95, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Oct 1983 |
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1983h |
The Viewing Transformation |
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Tech Memo 84, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jun 1983. Revised May 1984. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 84 |
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1983g |
Matrix Conventions Revisited |
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Tech Memo 64 [sic], Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jun 1983 |
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1983f |
Clarifying Computer Graphics |
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Tech Memo 83, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1983 (with Ed Catmull) |
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1983e |
Composer: A New Filmmaking Task/Profession |
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Tech Memo 79, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1983 |
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1983d |
Transformation Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 78, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1983. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 83 and 84 |
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1983c |
Spline Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 77, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1983. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 83 and 84 |
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1983b |
Analysis of Data Structuring for Fractals |
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Tech Memo 76, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1983 |
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1983a |
Laser Bandwidth Requirements |
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Tech Memo 74, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1983 (with David DiFrancesco, Tom Noggle, and Ed Catmull) |
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1982n |
Pixar Prototype Configurations |
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Tech Memo 60, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Nov 1982 |
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1982m |
Projected Superquadrics are 2-Pass Transformable |
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Tech Memo 54, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Aug 1982 |
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1982l |
An Archiving Case Study |
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Tech Memo 51, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Aug 1982 |
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1982k |
A Production Case Study |
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Tech Memo 47, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Aug 1982 |
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1982j |
An RGB Soft-Edged Fill Algorithm |
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Tech Memo 45, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1982 |
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1982i |
Digital Filtering Tutorial, Part II |
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Tech Memo 44, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, May 1982. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 83 and 84 |
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1982h |
Movie Software |
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Tech Memo 43, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1982. Revised May 1982 |
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1982g |
Picture Compositing Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 42, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1982. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 82 |
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1982f |
Film Input Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 41, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1982. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 82 |
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1982e |
Fill Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 40, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1982. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 82 |
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1982d |
Painting Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 38, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1982. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 82 |
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1982c |
Color Tutorial Notes |
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Tech Memo 37, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1982. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 82 |
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1982b |
Math of Mattings |
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Tech Memo 32, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Apr 1982. Reissue of a tech memo of Dec 30, 1980 |
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1982a |
Analysis of the Color-Difference Technique |
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Tech Memo 30, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Mar 1982 |
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1981e |
Perspective Convention for Lucasfilm |
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Tech Memo 28, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Dec 1981 |
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1981d |
Digital Filtering Tutorial for Computer Graphics |
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Tech Memo 27, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Nov 1981. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 83 and 84 |
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1981c |
Picture Merging Syntax |
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Tech Memo 8c, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Sep 1981 |
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1981b |
Analysis of Video Matting |
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Tech Memo 8a, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jan 1981 |
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1981a |
Picture Coding and Tile Systems |
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Tech Memo 8, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Jan 1981 |
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1980 |
Command Conventions |
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Tech Memo 1, Computer Division, Lucasfilm, Dec 1980 |
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1979f |
Table Paint |
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Tutorial Notes, JPL, CalTech, Oct 1979. Issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 80 and 81 |
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1979e |
Incremental Rendering of Textures in Perspective |
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Tutorial Notes, JPL, CalTech, Oct 1979. Issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 80 |
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1979d |
Painting Tutorial Notes |
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Tutorial Notes, Computer Graphics Lab, NYIT, Aug 1979. Issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 79-82 and Infotech 79 (London) |
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1979c |
Color Model Objections and Counterproposals |
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Tech Memo No 11, Computer Graphics Lab, NYIT, Aug 1979. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 80 and 81 |
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1979b |
Texas (Preliminary Report) |
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Tech Memo No 10, Computer Graphics Lab, NYIT, Jul 1979. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPH 79 (with an Addendum dated Aug 1979) |
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1979a |
YIQ vs RGB |
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Tech Memo No 9, Computer Graphics Lab, NYIT, Apr 1979 |
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1978c |
Realizable Colors |
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Tech Memo No 8, Computer Graphics Lab, NYIT, Aug 1978. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 80 and 81 |
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1978b |
Paint |
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Tech Memo No 7, Computer Graphics Lab, NYIT, Jul 1978. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 78-82. Reprinted in Tutorial: Computer Graphics and in Seminal Graphics: Pioneering Efforts That Shaped the Field (see 1982a in Computer Graphics Publications section) |
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1978a |
Fill and Tint Fill |
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Tech Memo No 6, Computer Graphics Lab, NYIT, Jul 1978. Also issued as tutorial notes at SIGGRAPHs 78, 80-82 |
CELLULAR AUTOMATA THEORY PUBLICATIONS (see Papers)
(IEEE FOCS = Symposium on the Foundations of Computer Science of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, formerly known as IEEE SWAT = Switching and Automata Theory Symposium)
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1993 |
Cellular Automata |
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Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 4th edition, eds. Anthony Ralston, Edwin D Reilly, and David Hemmendinger, Wiley, Aug 2003. I wrote the original entry for the 1st edition and all subsequent editions: 1976, 1983, 1993, 2003 |
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1991 |
Simple Nontrivial Self-Reproducing Machines |
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Artificial Life II, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Vol X, edited by C G Langton, C Taylor, J D Farmer, and S Rasmussen, Addison-Wesley, 1991, 709-725 (Proceedings of the ALIFE2 (Artificial Life 2) Conference, Santa Fe, NM, Feb, 1990) |
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1976 |
Introduction and Survey of Polyautomata Theory |
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Automata, Languages, Development, edited by A Lindenmayer and G Rozenberg, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1976, 405-422 |
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1972 |
Real-Time Language Recognition by One-Dimensional Cellular Automata |
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Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Vol 6, No 3, 233-253, Jun 1972 |
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1971d |
Two-Dimensional Formal Languages and Pattern Recognition by Cellular Automata |
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12th IEEE FOCS Conference Record, 144-152, Oct 1971 |
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1971c |
Simple Computation-Universal Cellular Spaces |
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Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, Vol 18, No 3, 339-353, Jul 1971 |
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1971b |
Cellular Automata Complexity Trade-Offs |
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Information and Control, Vol 18, No 5, 466-482, Jun 1971 |
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1971a |
General Shift-Register Sequences of Arbitrary Cycle Length |
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IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol C-20, No 4, 456-459, Apr 1971 |
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1970 |
Cellular Automata and Formal Languages |
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11th IEEE FOCS Conference Record, 216-224, Oct 1970 |
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1969 |
Cellular Automata Theory |
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Technical Report No 2, Digital Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, Dec 1969 |
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1968 |
Simple Computation-Universal Cellular Spaces and Self-Reproduction |
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9th IEEE FOCS Conference Record, 269-277, Oct 1968 |
GENEALOGY PUBLICATIONS (see Papers)
| 2024 | Samuel Riggs, Texian, the Missing Son of Bethuel Riggs: A Lacuna Filled |
| The Genealogist, Vol 38, No. 2, xx-xx, Fall 2024 [pending], with Barbara Ann (Helm) Smith. | |
| 2015 | Proposed Hawkshead, Lancashire, Origins of Edward1 Riggs of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Thomas1 Riggs of Gloucester |
| The American Society of Genealogists 75th Anniversary Volume (1940-2015): Selected and Original Articles by Fellows of the Society, Past and Present, 234-244, 2015, with Robert Charles Anderson, FASG; republished from TAG (2008), with one small error in footnote 32 fixed. | |
| 2010a | The Probable Genetic Signature of Thomas1 Riggs, Immigrant to Gloucester, Massachusetts, by 1658 |
| New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 164, 85-94, 2010 | |
| 2010b | The Probable Genetic Signature of Edward1 Riggs, Immigrant to Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1633 |
| New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 164, 95-103, 2010 | |
| 2009 | The Genealogy of Edward1 Riggs of Roxbury, Massachusetts, Revisited |
| The Genealogist, Vol 23, No. 2, 131-73, Fall 2009, with Robert Charles Anderson, FASG; erratum 24:72 | |
| 2008 | Proposed Hawkshead, Lancashire, Origins of Edward1 Riggs of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Thomas1 Riggs of Gloucester |
| The American Genealogist, Vol 82, 120-29, Apr 2007, with Robert Charles Anderson, FASG | |
|
2007b |
Microsoft Word for Genealogy: An Improvement |
|
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New England Ancestors, Vol 8, No 4, 46-47, Fall 2007 |
|
2007a |
Hannah Parsons and Her Four Husbands: Early Mormon History and Apostasy |
|
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The American Genealogist, Vol 81, No 3, 199-219, Jul 2006 (published Jan 2007), with Marsha Hoffman Rising, FASG |
|
2006b |
Elder Bethuel Riggs of Morris County, New Jersey, and His Family (see Book) |
|
|
Boston: Newbury Street Press (NEHGS), Dec 2006, 794 pages, 35 illustrations |
| 2006a | Writing Using Word for Genealogy: Utilizing Microsoft Word in Genealogical Documents in Register, or Modified Register [NGSQ], Format |
| Ch. 7, 65-107, of Leclerc and Hoff, eds., Genealogical Writing in the 21st Century: A Guide to Register Style and More, 2d ed. (Boston, NEHGS, 2006) | |
| 2005b | The Y-DNA Signature of Edward Riggs of Roxbury |
| New England Ancestors, Vol 6, No 3, 46-48, Summer 2005 | |
| 2005a | Word for Genealogy: Utilizing Microsoft Word in Genealogical Documents in Register, or Modified Register [NGSQ], Format, Part 4 |
| New England Ancestors, Vol 6, No 1, 50-51, 54, Winter 2005 | |
|
2004d |
Word for Genealogy: Utilizing Microsoft Word in Genealogical Documents in Register, or Modified Register [NGSQ], Format, Part 3 |
|
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New England Ancestors, Vol 5, No 5-6, 59-60, Holiday 2004 |
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2004c |
Word for Genealogy: Utilizing Microsoft Word in Genealogical Documents in Register, or Modified Register [NGSQ], Format, Part 2 |
|
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New England Ancestors, Vol 5, No 4, 51-54, Fall 2004 |
|
2004b |
Captain Bethuel Riggs of the Revolutionary War Died in Missouri, Not Ohio |
|
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The American Genealogist, Vol 79, Nos 1-2, 34-37, Jan/Apr 2004 |
|
2004a |
Word for Genealogy: Utilizing Microsoft Word in Genealogical Documents in Register, or Modified Register [NGSQ], Format, Part 1 |
|
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New England Ancestors, Vol 5, No 3, 50-53, Summer 2004 |
|
2003d |
How I Was Inspired to Publish a Family History: the Durands of Colonial Connecticut |
|
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New England Ancestors, Vol 4, Nos 5-6, 28-30, Holiday 2003 |
|
2003c |
Indiana Descendants of John Durand, 1664-1727: Excerpts from Dr. John Durand of Derby, Connecticut, and His Family, Part 2 |
|
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The Hoosier Genealogist, Vol 43, No 2, 127-30, Summer 2003 |
|
2003b |
Dr. John Durand of Derby, Connecticut, and His Family (see Book) |
|
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Boston: Newbury Street Press, Sep 2003, 583 pages, 100 illustrations |
|
2003a |
Indiana Descendants of John Durand, 1664-1727: Excerpts from Dr. John Durand of Derby, Connecticut, and His Family, Part 1 |
|
|
The Hoosier Genealogist, Vol 43, No 1, 59-62, Spring 2003, plus front cover |
|
2002 |
An Old Littell Family Bible |
|
|
National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol 90, No 4, 273-81, Dec 2002, plus front cover and inside front cover; update: Vol 92, No 1, 50, Mar 2004 |
ARTISTIC PRODUCTIONS (see Art)
| 2014b | Chapter heading illustrations, in Robert Charles Anderson, FASG, Elements of Genealogical Analysis, NEHGS, Boston, 2014, pp. xiii, 56, 64, 74, 83, 108 |
| 2014a | DNA of the Early Roman Emperors and Famous Associates, map 150 of Mapping It Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies, ed. Hans Ulrich Obrist, London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. See also item 2010 |
| 1973-2013 | Cover, synapse, 14th-54th IEEE FOCS Conference Records (Foundations of Computer Science), Oct or Nov of 1973-2013 (41 years!). The 2011-2013 editions were electronic |
| 1988-2013 | Cover, Irrational Tiling by Logical Quantifiers, 3rd, 5th-24th, 26th-28th IEEE LICS Conference Records (Logic in Computer Science), Jul of 1988, 1990-2009, 2011-2013 (24 years!) |
| 2011 | American Imperial Families of the 15th and 16th Century, graphic art illustration, created for Charles Mann's 1493, published Aug 2011 |
| 2010 | DNA of the Early Roman Emperors and Famous Associates, graphic art illustration, part of the Map Marathon at the Serpentine Gallery, London, Oct 2010. See also item 2014a for print version |
| 2005-2006 | Screening and exhibit, The Adventures of André & Wally B., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 14 Dec 2005-6 Feb 2006 (Pixar 20th anniversary exhibit) |
|
2003 |
Conic sections illustration, a digital recomposition of eight figures from Claude Richard's 1655 edition of Apollonius of Perga's Conic Sections, and scans from Isaac Newton's Principia for Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., New York, 2003, pp. 674, 685-5 |
|
2001 |
Cover, mandarin.tut, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol 23, No 2, Apr-Jun 2001 [and article, pp. 4-30, see p. 9 in particular] |
|
1998 |
Geometric design (parquet deformation) for permanent glass sculpture Nagare by artist Norman Courtney, Centennial Center, Kent, WA, Jun 1998 (dedicated Dec 1998). Commissioned by the Kent Arts Commission 1998 |
|
1993 |
Exhibition,
videodisc contributor, Revue virtuelle: The digital
herbarium, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Oct 1993 - Jan 1994 |
|
1990 |
Picture, Photofinish at the Brickyard, SIGGRAPH 90 Art Show, Dallas, Texas, Aug 1990. Included in the 1990 ACM SIGGRAPH Traveling Art Show |
|
1985 |
Cover,
white.sands,
Geometric Modeling, Michael E. Mortenson, John Wiley &
Sons, 1985. Exhibited at the SIGGRAPH 83 Art Show, Jul 1983. Also reprinted in
the SIGGRAPH 83 Proceedings, p 374, and in numerous magazines, including
Abacus,
High Techology, and
Byte, 1983-4 |
|
1984 |
Director and concept, animated film, The Adventures of André & Wally B., Lucasfilm, 1984 (with Bill Reeves, John Lasseter, Tom Duff, Eben Ostby, Rob Cook, Loren Carpenter, Ed Catmull, David Salesin, Tom Porter, Sam Leffler, David DiFrancesco, Tom Noggle, Don Conway, and Craig Good). Winner of awards at the 1985 International Festival of Animation in Toronto, 1985 National Computer Graphics Association Conference, 1985 First Annual Hiroshima Festival of Animation, 1985 Animation Celebration in Los Angeles, and others. Exhibited at the Computer Museum, Boston, 1984-5 |
|
1983b |
Title page picture, pt.reyes, Computer Graphics, Vol 17, No 3, Jul 1983 (SIGGRAPH 83 Conference Proceedings) (with Rob Cook, and Loren Carpenter, Tom Porter, Bill Reeves, and David Salesin). Also exhibited at The Computer Museum, Boston, 1984-5 |
|
1983a |
Cover, equilibrium, Nikkei Computer (Japanese magazine), Feb 21, 1983 |
|
1982b |
Jacket design (with Ed Emshwiller), Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics, J D Foley and A van Dam, Addison-Wesley, 1982 |
|
1982a |
Director and concept, feature film sequence, Genesis Demo, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Paramount Pictures, 6 Jun 1982 (with Loren Carpenter, Pat Cole, Tom Duff, Tom Porter, and Bill Reeves). Also used in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and StarTrek IV: The Voyage Home. Excerpted in Reebok television commercials during Super Bowl, Jan 1993, Winter Olympics, Feb 1994, and World Cup, Jul 1994 |
|
1979b |
Cover, Computer Graphics, Vol 13, No 2, Aug 1979 (SIGGRAPH 79 Conference Proceedings) |
|
1979a |
Videotape, Sunstone (with Ed Emshwiller, principal artist, Lance Williams and Garland Stern), New York Institute of Technology, 1979. Exhibited many places including SIGGRAPH 79, Chicago, on WNET television show Video/Film Review, New York, 1979, and the Mill Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley CA, 1981. In the video collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York (and presented there 8 Dec. and 19 Dec. 2000). New sound track added 28 Apr 2012 by Chicago blues man, Corky Siegel, and performed at the The Acorn Theatre, Three Oaks, MI |
|
1978b |
Picture, r.theta series/ramp, Owens Illinois Exhibition Artists in the Computer Age, Sep 1978. The picture was also used as the cover of item 1978a |
|
1978a |
Cover, Computer, IEEE Computer Society, Vol 11, No 7, Jul 1978 |
|
1976 |
Art, synapse, in The Compleat Computer, by Dennie Van Tassel, Science Research Associates, 1976, p. 208. |
|
1974 |
Videotape, Vidbits, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 1974. Exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1975, and on WNET television show VTR, New York, 1975 |
|
1971 |
Cover, Scientific American, Feb 1971 |
|
1969 |
Jacket design, Theories of Abstract Automata, Michael A Arbib, Prentice-Hall, 1969 |
INVITED SPEAKER ENGAGEMENTS
Entries in italics are non-USA
| 2024e | Speaker, HOTA Museum, Gold Coast, Australia (live), 26 Jun 2024 [pending] |
| 2024d | Speaker, Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand (live), 24 Jun 2024 [pending] |
| 2024c | Speaker, AMW, Asilomar, CA (live), 25 Apr 2024 |
| 2024b | Speaker, 2 talks, Gathering 4 Gardner 15, Atlanta, GA (live), 22-23 Feb 2024 |
| 2024a | Lecture, Tom Sito Animation Class, USC, Los Angeles (virtual), 15 Feb 2024 |
| 2023g | Speaker, Pixar RenderMan event, Emeryville, CA (live), 8 Dec 2023 |
| 2023f | Speaker, Field Arts & Events Hall, Port Angeles, WA (live), 18 Sep 2023 |
| 2023e | Speaker, SIGGRAPH50, Retrospective event, Los Angeles (live), 7 Aug 2023 |
| 2023d | Speaker, University of Utah, Computer Graphics Milestone event, Salt Lake City (live), 23 Mar 2023 |
| 2023c | Speaker, Simons Institute, Brower Center, Berkeley (live), 21 Feb 2023 |
| 2023b | Lecturer, Jonathan Candelaria's classes, Part 2, UC Berkeley (live), 10 Feb 2023 |
| 2023a | Speaker, Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA), Q Bay Center, San Jose (live), 29 Jan 2023 |
| 2022j | Speaker, NEP Virtual Studios (virtual), 16 Nov 2022 |
| 2022i | Lecturer, CMU Silicon Valley (live), 27 Oct 2022 |
| 2022h | Lecturer, Jonathan Candelaria's classes, UC Berkeley (live), 4 Oct 2022 |
| 2022g | Speaker, Dent the Universe conference, Santa Fe, NM (live), 12 Sep 2022 |
| 2022f | Speaker, San Francisco Philosophy Club, Stochastic Labs, Berkeley CA (live), 8 Aug 2022 |
| 2022e | Lecturer, Bonfire Studios, organized by Sam Christiansen (virtual), 15 Jun 2022 |
| 2022d | Commencement speaker, New York Institute of Technology (live), 22 May 2022 |
| 2022c | Commencement speaker, Film Department, UC Berkeley (live!), 18 May 2022 |
| 2022b | Lecturer, BAIR (Berkeley AI Research) seminar, UC Berkeley (live!), 4 May 2022 |
| 2022a | Lecturer, Don Greenberg's Program of Computer Graphics class, Cornell University (virtual), 12 Apr 2022 |
| 2021l | Speaker, Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), hosted by Piero Scaruffi (virtual), 29 Sep 2021 |
| 2021k | Lecturer, Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (virtual), hosted by Elliot Fishman, 21 Sep 2021 |
| 2021j | Speaker, Seattle Town Hall, Seattle, WA (virtual), moderated by Charles Mann, 8 Sep 2021 |
| 2021i | Lecturer, Nova77 STEM Webinar Series 2021 (virtual), "A Biography of the Pixel," hosted by Ping Wang, 1 Sep 2021 |
| 2021h | Lecturer, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (virtual), hosted by Sheila Sofian, 1 Sep 2021 |
| 2021g | Speaker, "A Biography of the Pixel," Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena, CA (virtual), hosted by Corrie Dibble, 6 Aug 2021 |
| 2021f | Speaker, CogX Festival 2021, London, England (virtual), 14 Jun 2021 |
| 2021e | Speaker, Moscow Startup Village 2021, Moscow, Russia (virtual), 24 May 2021 |
| 2021d | Speaker, Sci Foo Alumni Lightning Talks, Mountain View, CA (virtual), 15 May 2021 |
| 2021c | Speaker, Asilomar Microprocessor Workshop, AMW 2021, Asilomar, CA (virtual), 30 Apr 2021 |
| 2021b | Speaker, Princeton University, STC 209 (Daniel Pillis, instructor), Princeton, NJ (virtual), 15 Feb 2021 |
| 2021a | Speaker, VFXRio 2021, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (virtual), 7 Feb 2021 |
| 2020c | Speaker, Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley Campus, Mountain View, CA (virtual), 27 Oct 2020 |
| 2020b | Speaker, VIEW Conference, Turin, Italy (virtual), 21 Oct 2020 |
| 2020a | Speaker, Creativity Conference, Sea Island, GA, 17 Jan 2020 |
| 2019b | Dean's Lecture, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 12 Sept 2019 |
| 2019a | Speaker, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 22 Mar 2019 |
| 2017g | Speaker, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 7 Dec 2017 |
| 2017f | Keynote speaker, Leadership Energy Summit Asia (LESA) 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 8 Nov 2017 |
| 2017e | Keynote speaker, North Carolina State Univeristy, Computer Science Dept., Raleigh, NC, 13 Oct 2017 |
| 2017d | Speaker, Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley Campus, Mountain View, CA, 9 Oct 2017 |
| 2017c | Speaker, Microsoft, Cambridge, England, 19 June 2017 |
| 2017b | Speaker, Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, England, 1 June 2017 |
| 2017a | Keynote speaker, Unfinished Festival 2017, Bucharest, Romania, 28 May 2017 |
| 2016e | Keynote speaker, MiSK Global Forum 2016, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 15 Nov 2016 |
| 2016d | Speaker, Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley Campus, Mountain View, CA, 14 Sept 2016 |
| 2016c | Speaker, Baobab Studios Inc., Redwood City, CA, 14 Sept 2016 |
| 2016b | Speaker, Pioneers Meeting, Siggraph 2016, Anaheim CA, 26 Jul 2016 |
| 2016a | Speaker, Imagine Solutions, Naples FL, 22 Feb 2016 |
| 2015e | Speaker, Academy of Art University, VFX Department, San Francisco CA, 17 Nov 2015 |
| 2015d | Speaker, Herald Design Forum 2015, Seoul, South Korea, 10 Nov 2015 |
| 2015c | Speaker, with George Dyson, EG (Electronic Gathering) 2015, Monterey CA, 15 May 2015 |
| 2015b | Keynote speaker, MeetLatAm, Santiago, Chile, 24 Apr 2015 |
| 2015a | Speaker, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, 8 Mar 2015 |
| 2014g | Keynote speaker, Project Connect series, Paramount Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand, 4 Dec 2014 |
| 2014f | Keynote speaker, Project Connect series, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 Dec 2014 |
| 2014e | Speaker, Design@Large Seminar Series, UC San Diego, San Diego CA, 24 Nov 2014 |
| 2014d | Keynote speaker, 15th International Computer Graphics (VIEW) Conference, Turin, Italy, 15 Oct 2014 |
| 2014c | Speaker, Philosophy Club of San Francisco, Berkeley CA, 28 June 2014 |
| 2014b | Speaker, LAST (Life, Art, Science, and Technology) Festival, Zero1 Garage, San Jose CA, 7 June 2014 |
| 2014a | Speaker, Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum (DELF), Hong Kong, 16 Apr 2014 |
| 2013g | Speaker, Cinematic Innovation Summit, Dubai UAE, 6 Dec 2013 |
| 2013f | Speaker, David Hockney Symposium, de Young Museum, San Francisco CA, 23 Nov 2013 |
| 2013e | Speaker, Adobe Creative Technologies Lab Retreat, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA, 12 Nov 2013 |
| 2013d | Speaker, 50th Anniversary Celebration, Computer Graphics Technology Dept., Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, 4 Nov 2013 |
| 2013c | Speaker, Amazon, Seattle WA, Apr 2013 |
| 2013b | Speaker, Dent Conference, Sun Valley ID, Apr 2013 |
| 2013a | Speaker, Leonardo Art/Science Evening (LASER), USF, San Francisco CA, Jan 2013 |
| 2012i | Speaker, CineGrid 2012, UCSD, San Diego CA, Dec 2012 |
| 2012h | Verge Entrepreneurship Lecture, NMSU, Las Cruces NM, Oct 2012 |
| 2012g | Freshman Class lecture, ECE Dept., NMSU, Las Cruces NM, Oct 2012 |
| 2012f | Dinner speaker, ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Academy, NMSU, Las Cruces NM, Oct 2012 |
| 2012e | Dinner speaker, SID (Society of Information Display), San Jose CA, Aug 2012 |
| 2012d | Speaker, Personal History of the Group Now Known as Pixar, Jane Street, New York NY, 18 June 2012 |
| 2012c | Lecturer, Word for Genealogists, National Genealogical Society Conference, Cincinnati OH, 11 May 2012 |
| 2012b | Speaker, Gathering for [Martin] Gardner 10, Atlanta GA, 29 Mar 2012 |
| 2012a | Speaker, Digital Medium Symposium, Boulder International Film Festival, Boulder CO, 17 Feb 2012 |
| 2011d | Speaker, Mundo Digitales, A Coruña, Spain, 9 Jul 2011 |
| 2011c | Speaker, Magdalen College School, Oxford, England, 28 Jun 2011 |
| 2011b | Speaker, Dundee University Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland, 19 May 2011 |
| 2011a | Speaker, Digital Light Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 18 Mar 2011 |
| 2010 | Keynote speaker, Rio Grande Chapter, Siggraph, Las Cruces NM, Dec 2010 (poster) |
| 2009 | Commencement speaker, University of California at Berkeley, Computer Science, May 2009 |
| 2008b | Speaker, Entertainment Gathering '08, Monterey CA, Dec 2008 |
| 2008a | Speaker, A History of Computer Graphics in Film with Alvy Ray Smith, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle WA, Mar 2008 |
| 2007 | Speaker, Adventures of the Mind, Morehouse College, Atlanta GA, June 2007 |
| 2006b | Speaker, Bainbridge Island Photography Club, Bainbridge Island WA, Apr 2006 |
| 2006a | Speaker, Creative Media Institute, Dona Ana Community College, Las Cruces NM, Apr 2006 |
|
2004c |
Speaker, Old Derby Historical Society, Derby CT, Nov 2004 |
|
2004b |
Luncheon speaker, SID (Society of Information Display) Conference, Seattle WA, May 2004 |
|
2004a |
Luncheon speaker, Gentech Conference, St. Louis MO, Jan 2004 |
|
2003d |
Distinguished lecturer series, University of California at Santa Barbara, Dec 2003 |
|
2003c |
Book signing and talk, Durand-Hedden House & Garden, Maplewood NJ, Nov 2003 |
|
2003b |
Dinner speaker, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Trustee Meeting, Boston MA, Oct 2003 |
|
2003a |
Luncheon speaker, National Genealogical Society Convention, Pittsburgh PA, May 2003 (my first genealogy talk) |
|
2002d |
Michaelmas Lectures 2002, Trinity College, Cambridge, England, Nov 2002 |
|
2002c |
Graduation speaker (their first), West Sound Academy, Kitsap Peninsula WA, Jun 2002 |
|
2002b |
Distinguished lecturer series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 2002 |
|
2002a |
Distinguished lecturer series, University of Southern California, Brain Science, Los Angeles CA, Jan 2002 |
|
2001b |
Keynote speaker, Supercomputer Conference 2001, Denver CO, Nov 2001 |
|
2001a |
Banquet speaker, Workshop on the Convergence of Graphics, Vision and Video, Berkeley CA, Mar 2001 |
|
2000c |
Lecture, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota FL, Mar 2000 |
|
2000b |
Lecture, The Bush School 75th Anniversary, Bank of America Gallery, Seattle, Feb 2000 |
|
2000a |
History of Computer Paint Programs, speaker, Computer History Museum, Moffett Field CA, Jan 2000 |
|
1999c |
Commencement speaker, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM, Dec 1999 |
|
1999b |
Port Angeles Education Council, dinner speaker, Port Angeles WA, May 1999 |
|
1999a |
Eurographics UK Conference, keynote, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University UK, 14 Apr 1999 |
|
1998i |
Digital TV, lecture, Stanford Computer Science Department, Nov 1998 |
|
1998h |
Advanced Imaging Strategies Conference, keynote, San Francisco, Oct 1998 |
|
1998g |
Graphics Interface, keynote, Vancouver BC, Jun 1998 |
|
1998f |
Hallmark Colloquium, Hallmark Cards, Kansas City MO, May 1998 |
|
1998e |
Art and Technology Colloquium, SUNY Stony Brook NY, Apr 1998 |
|
1998d |
Distinguished Lecturer, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Apr 1998 |
|
1998c |
Proctor and Gamble Image Conference, keynote, Cincinatti, Mar 1998 |
|
1998b |
911 Media Arts Center Advisory Council meeting, Seattle, Feb 1998 |
|
1998a |
Evergreen State College, Olympia WA, Feb 1998 |
|
1997b |
Seattle Chapter SIGGRAPH, Redmond WA, Jun 1997 |
|
1997a |
New Mexico State University, ACM Chapter, Las Cruces NM, Feb 1997 |
|
1996m |
Supercomputing 96, Pittsburgh, Nov 1996 |
|
1996l |
Visualization 96, keynote address, San Francisco, Nov 1996 |
|
1996k |
Other Geometries, a Symposium, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH, Oct 1996 (dedication of new building by Peter Eisenman) |
|
1996j |
Visible Human Project Conference, keynote address, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, Oct 1996 |
|
1996i |
Seybold Conference, Digital Photography keynote, San Francisco, Aug 1996 |
|
1996h |
CEO Roundtable, Aspen CO, Aug 1996 |
|
1996g |
Connections 2, Computer Art Seminar, Bainbridge Island WA, May 1996 |
|
1996f |
Norwescon Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, Apr 1996 |
|
1996e |
The Bush School, Seattle, Feb 1996 |
|
1996d |
New Mexico State University, ACM Chapter, Las Cruces NM, Feb 1996 |
|
1996c |
Creating CyberCulture Lecture Series, Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, Feb 1996 |
|
1996b |
National Library of Medicine, Board of Regents Banquet Speaker, Bethesda MD, Jan 1996 |
|
1996a |
Interval Research, Friday Afternoon Colloquium, Palo Alto CA, Jan 1996 |
|
1995b |
Frost & Sullivan Strategic Multimedia Conference, San Francisco, Oct 1995 |
|
1995a |
International Interactive Communications Society, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, Mar 1995 |
|
1994c |
Image World West, keynote address, San Jose, Dec 1994 |
|
1994b |
Expo’94, Cogswell Polytechnical College, Sunnyvale CA, Jun 1994 |
|
1994a |
AAAS 1994 Annual Meeting, Imaging Systems for Health Education and Health Care Delivery, San Francisco, Feb 1994 |
|
1992 |
National Library of Medicine, Board of Regents Banquet Speaker, Bethesda MD, Jan 1992 |
|
1991c |
EECS Colloquium, MIT, Cambridge MA, Oct 1991 |
|
1991b |
IEEE Computer Society, Inaugural Address, San Francisco State University, Sep 1991 |
|
1991a |
Santa Fe Institute, St. Johns College, Santa Fe NM, Apr 1991 |
|
1990h |
Society for Information Display, Las Vegas NV, May 1990 |
|
1990g |
Boston Computer Society, Boston, Mar 1990 |
|
1990f |
NCGA, Anaheim CA, Mar 1990 |
|
1990e |
The Once and Future Supercomputer, Dinner Speaker, Salishan Lodge, Gleneden Beach OR, Mar 1990 |
|
1990d |
SPIE-SPSE Conference, Dinner Speaker, Santa Clara CA, Feb 1990 |
|
1990c |
Artificial Life II Conference, Santa Fe NM, Feb 1990 |
|
1990b |
National Library of Medicine, Board of Regents Banquet Speaker, Bethesda MD, Jan 1990 |
|
1990a |
Mitre Institute, Mitre Corporation, Maclean, VA, Jan 1990 |
|
1989o |
Keynote speaker, 1989 Sapporo International Computer Graphics Symposium & Show, Sapporo, Japan, 28 Nov 1989 |
|
1989n |
NICOGRAPH89, Tokyo, Nov 1989 |
|
1989m |
Stewart Alsop’s Forum 90, La Costa, Carlsbad CA, Sep 1989 |
|
1989l |
Dataquest Visualization Conference, Santa Clara, Sep 1989 |
|
1989k |
Mayo Clinic, DSR Tenth Anniversary, Rochester, Minnesota, Aug 1989 |
|
1989j |
AutoDesk Technology Forum, Sausalito, Jul 1989 |
|
1989i |
Scientific Computing Symposium, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Jul 1989 |
|
1989h |
Computer & Mathematics, Massachussets Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Jun 1989 |
|
1989g |
Visualization, Graphics, and Imaging Seminar, Digital Equipment Corporation, Marlborough MA, Jun 1989 |
|
1989f |
Workshop On Parallel Computer Systems, Santa Fe Institute, Bishops Lodge, Santa Fe, May 1989 |
|
1989e |
CGA, Philadelphia, Apr 1989 |
|
1989d |
Electronic Imaging (EI West), Pasadena, Apr 1989 |
|
1989c |
Seybold Seminars, San Francisco, Mar 1989 |
|
1989b |
SPSE-SPIE Conference, Los Angeles, Jan 1989 |
|
1989a |
Stanford University Lecture, Terman Auditorium, Palo Alto, Jan 1989 |
|
1988i |
Pratt Center's Computer Graphics for Design/Fall 88, New York, Dec 1988 |
|
1988h |
C Itoh Techno Sciences Seminar, Tokyo, Nov 1988 |
|
1988g |
NICOGRAPH 88, Tokyo, Nov 1988 |
|
1988f |
Second Annual Computer Graphics in the Arts and Science Lecture Series, New York, Jun 1988 |
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1988e |
Midnight Sun Lecture, Second International Conference on Vector and Parallel Computing, Trømsö, Norway, Jun 1988 |
|
1988d |
Workshop on Differential Geometry, Calculus of Variations, and Computer Graphics, Berkeley, May 1988 |
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1988c |
John von Neuman Supercomputer Center, Princeton, Mar 1988 |
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1988b |
Seybold Seminars, San Francisco, Mar 1988 |
|
1988a |
Scientific Visualization Workshop, Pasadena, Jan 1988 |
|
1987j |
NASA Ames Laboratory, Mountain View CA, Sep 1987 |
|
1987i |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Jun 1987 |
|
1987h |
Bay Area ACM/Siggraph Meeting, Exploratorium, San Francisco, Jun 1987 |
|
1987g |
National Computer Conference (NCC), Chicago, Jun 1987 |
|
1987f |
Sundstrand Corporate Mini Symposium '87, Rockford IL, May 1987 |
|
1987e |
Alex Brown & Sons 12th Annual Health Care Seminar, Baltimore, May 1987 |
|
1987d |
13th Annual IEEE Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop, Pacific Grove CA, Apr 1987 |
|
1987c |
E F Hutton Electronic Imaging Forum IV, Boston, Apr 1987 |
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1987b |
SMPTE 21st Annual Television Conference, San Francisco, Feb 1987 |
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1987a |
Frost & Sullivan 9th Annual Assessment and Forecast of Computer Graphics '87, San Diego, Jan 1987 |
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1986f |
The Computer Museum, Boston, Nov 1986 |
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1986e |
15th Workshop on Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition, Washington, DC, Oct 1986 |
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1986d |
International Conference of Mathematicians (ICM 86), Berkeley, Aug 1986 |
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1986c |
Computational Geometry Symposium, Yorktown Heights NY, Jun 1986 |
|
1986b |
Stanford Values, Technology, Science, and Society Colloquium, Palo Alto, May 1986 |
|
1986a |
Stanford Computer Science Colloquium, Palo Alto, Apr 1986 |
|
1985e |
DIGICON, Vancouver, Aug 1985 |
|
1985d |
The Computer Museum, Boston, Apr 1985 |
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1985c |
Cray Science and Engineering Symposium, Minneapolis, Apr 1985 |
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1985b |
Creative Think: Innovations in Industry, Palo Alto, Mar 1985 |
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1985a |
E F Hutton Imaging Technology Seminar, Boston, Feb 1985 |
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1984k |
Data Processor Managers Association, San Francisco, Dec 1984 |
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1984j |
Video/Culture Conference, Toronto, Nov 1984 |
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1984i |
Pacific Science Center, Seattle, Oct 1984 |
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1984h |
Swinburne College, Melbourne, Australia, Sep 1984 |
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1984g |
AUSGRAPH 84, Melbourne, Australia, Sep 1984 |
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1984f |
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, Jul 1984 |
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1984e |
Orange Coast College, Anaheim, May 1984 |
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1984d |
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, Apr 1984 |
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1984c |
Encounter Cinema, University of California at Los Angeles, Apr 1984 |
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1984b |
Exploratorium (Chips and Changes Exhibit), San Francisco, Mar 1984 |
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1984a |
Computers in Art and Design, Research and Education (CADRE), Santa Clara, Jan 1984 |
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1983j |
Video Free America, San Francisco, Nov 1983 |
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1983i |
The Institute for Media Arts, Crestone CO, Sep 1983 |
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1983h |
ICOGRADA, Dublin, Aug 1983 |
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1983g |
DIGICON, Vancouver, Aug 1983 |
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1983f |
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Jun 1983 |
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1983e |
Video Viewpoints, "Electronic Filmmaking," Museum of Modern Art, New York City, May 1983 |
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1983d |
Filmex, Los Angeles, Apr 1983 |
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1983c |
TM Seminar, Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm, Apr 1983 |
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1983b |
Spring COMPCON 83, San Francisco, Mar 1983 |
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1983a |
Golden Gate Chapter ACM, San Francisco, Feb 1983 |
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1982i |
3D Animation Tutorial, NICOGRAPH 82, Tokyo, Nov 1982 |
|
1982h |
Pacific Northwest Computer Graphics Conference, Eugene, Oct 1982 |
|
1982g |
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, Sep 1982 |
|
1982f |
Bay Area Chapter SMPTE, San Francisco, Aug 1982 |
|
1982e |
Kodak seminar, Rochester, Jul 1982 |
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1982d |
National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA) Conference Videogala, Anaheim, Jun 1982 |
|
1982c |
Graphics Gathering, Santa Cruz, Mar 1982 |
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1982b |
Forum International de Television, Monte Carlo, Feb 1982 |
|
1982a |
Bay Area Chapter ASIFA, San Francisco, Feb 1982 |
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1981c |
Special Summer Session: Media Technology, Massachussets Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Aug 1981 |
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1981b |
University of CA Computer Science Seminar, Berkeley, Feb 1981 |
|
1981a |
ComputerVision 81, London, Jan 1981 |
|
1980c |
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), New York, Nov 1980 |
|
1980b |
Francis Ford Coppola's HighTech Retreat, San Francisco, Jun 1980 |
|
1980a |
Stanford Design Conference, Palo Alto CA, Jun 1980 |
SOFTWARE
|
1999 |
Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 version 2, ships Sep 1999. Bundled with Office 2000 Premium, or standalone |
|
1998 |
Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000, first version, ships Oct 1998. It is based on the model I brought into Microsoft with Altamira Composer and my vision of The Single Creative App |
|
1997 |
Microsoft Image Composer, second Microsoft version (v1.5), ships with Microsoft FrontPage98 in its Bonus Pack. Also bundled with Microsoft Visual InterDev |
|
1996 |
Microsoft Image Composer, first Microsoft version of Altamira Composer, ships with Microsoft FrontPage97 in its Bonus Pack, Nov 1996. Also bundled with Microsoft Visual InterDev web development tool, Feb 1997 |
|
1992 |
Altamira Composer, a PC Windows product. Shown in public the first time at the Seybold Computer Publishing Conference, San Francisco CA, Sep, 1992; first customer ship: Nov 22, 1993. Concept and DOS prototype: Alvy Ray Smith, Windows architect: Nicholas J Clay, user interface: Eric R Lyons, manual: Jack Powell |
|
1989 |
IceMan, Pixar. Created the first computer language for concisely describing image computations. IceMan was publicly announced at the Seybold Computer Publishing Conference, San Jose CA, Oct 1991 |
|
1978 |
My program Paint (colormapped version of Paint3) was used on the SuperBowl television broadcast, Jan 1978, and was written up in several publications, including The New York Times, Videography, Playboy, New Times, and BM/E |
|
1977b |
Alpha channel (with Ed Catmull), New York Institute of Technology. Invented the concept of the integral alpha channel as intrinsic to image structure |
|
1977a |
Paint3, New York Institute of Technology. Wrote the first full-color RGB electronic paint program, with airbrushing, smearing, blurring, soft-edged fill, color mixing, matting, etc |
|
1974 |
HSV, Xerox PARC.
Wrote the first RGB to hue-based color transform (HSV for Hue, Saturation, and Value). It
is the color model (called HSB) supported by PostScript |
BUSINESS
|
2015 |
Joined startup company Baobab Studios as an advisor, Board of Advisors. Nov. 2015 |
|
1994 |
Altamira merged with Microsoft. Sep 1994 |
|
1991 |
Altamira Software Corporation. Cofounded (with Eric Lyons and Nicholas Clay) with seed financing by Autodesk Inc and second round financing by Technology Venture Investors (David Marquardt and John Johnston) and Mort Meyerson |
|
1986 |
Pixar. Cofounded (with Ed Catmull) as a spinoff from Lucasfilm with financing by Steven P Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computer Corporation |
INTERVIEWS, PODCASTS, AND REVIEWS
| 2023a | Interview by Lake Dai at HYSTA (Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association) meeting, San Jose, live, with book signing, 29 Jan 2023. |
| 2022b | Review of lecture at CMU Silicon Valley, live, 27 Oct 2022. See https://engineering.cmu.edu/news-events/news/2022/12/13-legendary-lessons.html |
| 2022a | Interview by Barbara Robertson at the Computer History Museum, live, 11 Aug 2022. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDHn3hw8lAA&t=1s |
| 2021q | Interview by Dr. Rod Berger for IndiaJoy's CreativeCons, published 6 Nov 2021. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eihSgLXhxk8&t=1s |
| 2021p | Review by Chris Turner for MIT Technology Review, published 27 Oct 2021, "We are awash in digital light." See https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/27/1037163/alvy-ray-smith-pixel-book/ |
| 2021o | Podcast and notes by Danielle Newnham for Danielle Newnham Podcast, broadcast 28 Sep 2021, "Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixel and Steve Jobs". See https://danielle-newnham-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/alvy-ray-smith-j_UR7UD1 |
| 2021n | Interview and review by Steven Levy for WIRED, published 31 Aug 2021, "Meet the Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible". See https://www.wired.com/story/pixar-animation-alvy-ray-smith-pixel/ |
| 2021m | Podcast by Michelle Tsing for Laptop Radio Stanford KZSU 90.1FM, 31 Aug 2021, "The Nontrivial Pixel—Elementary Particle of Modern Media". |
| 2021l | Interviewed by Dr. Jeremy Weisz and Dr. Scot Gray for Inspired Insider, broadcast 19 Aug 2021. See https://www.inspiredinsider.com/alvy-ray-smith-interview/ |
| 2021k | Interviewed by Jonathan McCrea for "Futureproof Extra: Pixar & The Pixel," Newstalk Radio, Dublin, Ireland, broadcast 17 Aug 2021. See https://www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/futureproof-extra-pixar-the-pixe-aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4ucmFkaW9jbXMubmV0L3JhZGlvLWNtcy91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEvMDgvMTcxNTAyNTQvQXVndXN0LTE0dGgtRlAtRXh0cmEtUGl4ZWwtLm1wMw== |
| 2021j | Presentation (virtual) for Cinegrid Community Forum, 10 and 11 Aug 2021, "A Biography of the Pixel." See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g7bc2dptgw, starts about 3:40 |
| 2021i | Interview by Barbara Robertson for Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA (virtual), 7 Aug 2021, "A Biography of the Pixel." See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gugF7DJLPMQ |
| 2021h | Review by A. Tarantola for engadget, published 7 Aug 2021, "Hitting the Books: How our lying eyes trick the brain into seeing motion during movies." See https://www.engadget.com/hitting-the-books-biography-of-the-pixel-alvy-ray-smith-mit-press-153048574.html |
| 2021g | Presentation (virtual) at the Commonwealth Club, 5 Aug 2021, "Pixar Co-Founder Alvy Ray Smith: The History of the Pixel." See https://production.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/video/pixar-co-founder-alvy-ray-smith-history-pixel |
| 2021f | Review by Siobhan Doyle for E&T (Engineering & Technology), published 3 Aug 2021, "Book review: 'A Biography of the Pixel' by Alvy Ray Smith." See https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/08/book-review-a-biography-of-the-pixel-by-alvy-ray-smith/ |
| 2021e | Interviewed by Harry McCracken for Fast Company, published 2 Aug 2021. See https://www.fastcompany.com/90659130/alvy-ray-smith-a-biography-of-the-pixel-pixar |
| 2021d | Review by Simon Ings for The Telegraph, published 24 July 2021 (behind a pay wall), "Is the digital revolution that Pixar began with Toy Story stifling art - or saving it?" See https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/digital-revolution-pixar-began-toy-story-stifling-art-saving/ |
| 2021c | Interviewed by Ian Failes for podcast, VFX Artifacts, recorded 12 Jul 2021, broadcast late July 2021. See https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NaKefZO35V4d59yBVog_L3kLQ9DoJXSR/view?usp=sharing |
| 2021b | Interviewed by Mark Burman for the BBC Radio 4 podcast, Unreal: The VFX Revolution, along with several other early CGI pioneers, aired 13 Jul 2021. See https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000xrzm |
| 2021a | Interviewed by Andres Burbano for SIGGRAPH Spotlight, podcast 4 June 2021. See https://soundcloud.com/siggraph-spotlight/44-a-conversation-with-alvy-ray-smith |
| 2019b | Interviewed by Mike Seymour for Sydney Business Insights, podcast Sep 2019, "Seeing in colour with Alvy Ray Smith". See https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/seeing-in-colour-with-alvy-ray-smith/ |
| 2019a | Dean's lecture 2019, University of Sydney, 12 Sep 2019, "Digital Light: A Biography of the Pixel". See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUp2W3b2dLM&t=21s |
| 2017b | Interviewed by Uma for his podcast, BFM 89.9, Finding Pixar: A Conversation with Alvy Ray Smith (At the Movies #247), Kuala Lumpur, 9 Nov 2017. See https://player.fm/series/bfm-1497847/finding-pixar-a-conversation-with-alvy-ray-smith-at-the-movies-247/ |
| 2017a | Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane, King's College Cambridge, Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers, 20 June 2017. See https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2543320/ |
| 2015 | Interviewed by Jeanne Angel, for New-York Historical Society, 24 Mar 2015. |
| Interviewed by Andrew Warner, for mixergy.com, 30 Oct 2012, which see. | |
| 2012d | Interviewed, by Mike Seymour, for fxpodcast: Alvy Ray Smith, 5 July 2012. See http://www.fxguide.com/fxpodcasts/fxpodcast-alvy-ray-smith/ and accompanying webpage: http://www.fxguide.com/featured/alvy-ray-smith-rgba-the-birth-of-compositing-the-founding-of-pixar/. |
| 2012c | Interviewed, by William Jardine, for his blog. A113 Animation, 23 May 2012. See http://www.a113animation.com/2012/05/interview-alvy-ray-smith-pixar-co.html |
| 2012b | Interviewed, by Mike Bastoli, for his blog, Big Screen Animation, 22 May 2012, Outspoken: Alvy Ray Smith and the History of Pixar, http://www.bigscreenanimation.com/2012/05/outspoken-alvy-ray-smith-and-history-of.html. |
| 2012a | Interviewed, by Andrew S. Hughes, South Bend (IN) Tribune, 23 Apr 2012, re Corky Siegel's new soundtrack to Sunstone. |
| 2011d | Interviewed, by BBC, for video broadcast, first broadcast 14 Dec 2011, on BBC2 in the UK. |
| 2011c | Interviewed, by BBC, for audio podcast, Upsetting the Apple Cart - The Genius of Steve Jobs, first broadcast 17 Nov 2011. See also www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/docarchive. Or download at http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20111117-1249a.mp3 (50 minutes). |
| 2011b | Interviewed, by PBS, for video broadcast, Steve Jobs - One Last Thing, first broadcast, 2 Nov 2011. See also http://www.pbs.org/programs/steve-jobs-one-last-thing/ (55 minutes). 1:14-1:20, 31:33-35:20 |
| 2011a | Interviewed, by Walter Isaacson, for his book, Steve Jobs, published Oct 2011, Simon and Schuster, xv, 239-245, 285 |
|
2004 |
Interviewed, Animation Magician, CRN, by Heather Clancy, 13 Dec 2004, 42, 44 |
|
2002e |
Interviewed, The Genesis Demo: How CGI Changed the World, Star Trek: The Magazine, by Ben Robinson, editor, Vol 3, No 5, Sep 2002, 50-3 |
|
2002d |
Interviewed, Did This Man Just Rewrite Science?, The New York Times, by Dennis Overbye, 11 Jun 2002, Science Times section, D1, D3 |
|
2002c |
Interviewed, Why Is This Man Smiling?, Wired magazine, by Lawrence Weschler, Jun 2002, 120-7 |
|
2002b |
Interviewed, UPI Hollywood Reporter, by Pat Nason, 1 Feb 2002 |
|
2002a |
Interviewed, Alvy Smith: Beyond Pixel-Perfect Images, BusinessWeek online magazine, by Olga Kharif, 4 Jan 2002 |
|
2001 |
Interviewed and photographed, Legends: Alvy Ray Smith, Forbes ASAP magazine, by Andrew Freiburghouse, 28 May 2001, 52-3. Photo by Kathleen King |
|
2000 |
Interviewed and given thorough historical treatment, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, by Alan Deutschman, Broadway Books, NY, Oct 2000. Excellent treatment of my NYIT, Lucasfilm, and Pixar days in the 1970s and 1980s (numerous errors however) |
|
1999c |
Interviewed and featured (with many colleagues) in film The History of Computer Graphics, premiered at SIGGRAPH 99, Los Angeles, Aug 1999 |
|
1999b |
Interviewed and given thorough historical treatment, Dealers in Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, by Michael Hiltzik, Harper Collins, NY, Mar 1999. Excellent treatment of my Xerox PARC days in the 1970s |
|
1999a |
Interviewed and quoted extensively, Smooth Operator, The Economist, 6 Mar 1999 |
|
1998 |
Interviewed and quoted for articles about Pixar’s release of A Bug’s Life in Business Week cover story, 12 Nov 1998, author Peter Burrows, and The San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Nov 1998, author Jon Swartz |
|
1996 |
Interview, magazine, Wired. They Render unto Bill. How Microsoft plucked the world’s most renowned 3-D graphics pioneers to shape the future of all things visual, Charles Platt, Jul 1996, 114-118, 159, 161-165 |
|
1994 |
Interview, newsletter, The Future Image Report. Imaging Visionaries: A Conversation with Alvy Ray Smith, Apr/May 1994 (Part 1), Jun 1994 (Part 2) |
|
1993 |
Interview, magazine, Morph’s Outpost on the Digital Frontier. Sculpting Hyperspace: Morph Talks to Graphics Pioneer Alvy Ray Smith, Dec 1993 |
|
1985b |
Interview, television broadcast, John Rozcaks Art Notes, KQED, PBS, San Francisco, Jul 1985 |
|
1985a |
Interview, television broadcast, ABC David Hartman Special: The Future is Now, Jun 1985 |
|
1984 |
Interview, television broadcast, The Disney Channel |
|
1982 |
Videotape interview, Graphic Harmony, a presentation of Polaroid Corporation, written, produced, and directed by James Ruddy |
|
1981 |
Interview, television broadcast, BBC, Horizons |
PANELS, BOARDS, AND MEMBERSHIPS
2023b |
Talk and Panel Moderator, Pixar Animation Studios, IEEE Milestone Plaque Installation honoring RenderMan, Emeryville, CA, 9 Dec 2023 [panel: Alvy Ray Smith, Loren Carpenter, Pat Hanrahan, Dennis Muren, Ed Catmull, Tony Apodaca, Jim Lawson, Rob Cook, Tom Porter] (live) |
2023a |
Panels Moderator, University of Utah, IEEE Milestone Installation and 50th Anniversary of Computer Graphics, Salt Lake City, 24 Mar 2023 [panel 1: Bob Schumacker, Ivan Sutherland; panel 2: John Warnock, Henri Gouraud, Ed Catmull, Henry Fuchs, Martin Newell, Jim Blinn] (live) |
2021c |
Panelist, VIEW Conference 2021, "The Biography of the Pixel," moderator Barbara Robertson, 18 Oct 2021 [with myself, Mark Sylvester, John Knoll, Jeff Kleiser, Carl Rosendahl, Don Greenberg, Richard Kerris] (virtual) |
2021b |
Panelist, VIEW Conference 2021, "Pioneers in Visual Effects and Computer Graphics," moderator Barbara Robertson, 18 Oct 2021 [with myself, Rob Cook, Turner Whitted, Jim Blinn, Don Greenberg] (virtual) |
2021a |
Panelist, Nvidia's GTC2021, Pioneers of Visual Effects Roundtable (virtual), 15 Apr 2021 |
2020 |
Panelist, NYIT Computer Graphics Lab Then and Now, Siggraph 2020 (virtual), 27 Aug 2020 |
2019 |
Panelist, 60th anniversary, Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), Baltimore, MD, 2019 |
2013-2016 |
Member of the journal editorial board, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts |
2010 |
Chair, Interactive Toolkit Review Board, Visible Human Project, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD, 25-26 Feb 2010 |
|
2008 |
Panelist, Museum of Northwest Art, (with Ginny Ruffner, Maclen Marvit, and Mark Hofer), La Conner WA, 15 Sep 2008 |
|
2006 |
Member, National Academy of Engineering, elected Feb 2006 |
|
2005b |
Panelist, Computer History Museum, A Human Story of Computer Animation (with Brad Bird, Ed Catmull, Andrew Stanton, and Michael Rubin [moderator]), Mountain View CA, 16 May 2005 |
|
2005a |
Life Member, The Genealogical Society of New Jersey, 2005 |
|
2004b |
Member, The Old Derby Historical Society, Derby CT, 22 Nov 2004 |
|
2004a |
Panelist, Photography Panel (featuring Graham Nash), sponsored by Benham Gallery, Issaquah WA 16 Feb 2004 |
|
2003 |
Member, Sons of the Republic of Texas, approved 30 Jul 2003 |
|
2002-2005 |
Member, Board of Trustees, New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), Boston, appointed 29 Jul 2002 (now Emeritus) |
|
2002b |
Member, Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York, elected 11 Apr 2002 |
|
2002a |
Member, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, elected 2 Apr 2002 |
|
2001 |
Life Member, National Huguenot Society, elected 2001 |
|
2000c |
Life Member, Descendants of the Founders of New Jersey, elected 2000 |
|
2000b |
Panelist, Collecting Photography Today, sponsored by Microsoft, Sotheby's, Seattle Art Museum, Redmond WA Sep 2000 |
|
2000a |
Participant, NLM Visualization Research Agenda Meeting, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD Feb 2000 |
|
1999 |
DELPHI Forum, panel moderator and speaker, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah GA, Nov 1999 |
|
1998 |
Papers committee and technical session chair (Art, Illustration, Expression), SIGGRAPH, Orlando FL, Jul 1998 |
|
1997-1999 |
Member, Microsoft Art Committee, Microsoft, Redmond, May 1997– Oct 1999 |
|
1997a |
Panelist, Stanford Computer Forum, Palo Alto CA, Mar 1997 |
|
1996g |
Panelist, VESA, Panel on Advanced Television, Las Vegas, Nov 1996 |
|
1996f |
Joined honorary board of Artist Trust, Seattle, Oct 1996 |
|
1996e |
Joined board of 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, Oct 1996 |
|
1996d |
Panelist, SIGGRAPH’96, Panel on Advanced Television, New Orleans, Aug 1996 |
|
1996c |
Presenter of CICATS (Computer Industry Consortium on Advanced Television Systems) position to hearing held by Representative Vern Ehlers, Sam Rayburn Building, Washington DC, Apr 1996 |
|
1996b |
Charter member of CICATS (Computer Industry Consortium on Advanced Television Systems). Apple, Cupertino CA, Feb 1996 |
|
1996a |
Discussant at the presentation of the Visible Human Female, National Library of Medicine Board of Regents Meeting, Jan 1996 |
|
1994b |
Discussant at the presentation of the Visible Human Male, National Library of Medicine Board of Regents Meeting. Nov 1994 |
|
1994a |
Panelist, SIGGRAPH 94, Panel on Computer Technology and the Artistic Process, Orlando FL, Jul 1994 |
|
1991 |
Panelist, TAPE Multi-Media Conference, Dominican College, San Rafael CA, Oct 1991 |
|
1989 |
Member of the Corporate Advisory Board, Geometry Supercomputer Project, University of Minnesota, 1989 |
|
1988b |
Member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, 1988-1992. Member of the Planning Panel for Electronic Imaging, 1989. Instrumental in inaugurating the Visible Human Project. Official Advisor to the NLM, 1994 |
|
1988a |
Software Directions for Scientific Visualization, SIGGRAPH, Atlanta, Aug 1988 |
|
1987b |
Invited Observer to National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), Panel on Information Technologies and the Conduct of Research (INFOTECH), Woods Hole MA, May 1987 |
|
1987a |
Member of the journal editorial board, Complex Systems, ed. Stephen Wolfram, 1987-2017 |
|
1986b |
Member of Panel on Graphics, Image Processing, and Workstations, Division of Advanced Scientific Computing, National Science Foundation, NASA Ames Laboratory, Oct 30, 1986, and the Workshop on Visualization in Scientific Computing, Washington, DC, Feb 1987. Contributor to report of this panel entitled Visualization in Scientific Computing, Jul 1987 |
|
1986a |
Scientific Advisory Board, Morphometric Workstation Project for the Neurosciences, The Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Jul 1986 |
ACTIVITIES
Entries in italics are non-USA
| 2021b | Narrated video prologue to the Nvidia opening keynote address, Siggraph 2021, 10 Aug 2021. |
| 2021a | Officially launched my book, A Biography of the Pixel, Sausalito Books By the Bay, Sausalito CA, 3 Aug 2021. |
| 2014 | Toured Weta Workshop, hosted by Sir Richard Taylor, and Weta Digital, hosted by Matt Aitken, Wellington, New Zealand, 5 Dec 2014. |
| 2013b | Moderated a conversation between George Dyson and Kenneth Brower, UC Berkeley, 24 Sep 2013. Ken wrote the book The Starship and the Canoe about George and his father Freeman Dyson. This was another part of the On the Same Page program (see next). |
| 2013a | Designer of a business-card universal Turing machine, realized in metal and heavy card stock. 8,000 of the latter passed out to all entering freshmen at UC Berkeley as part of its On the Same Page program, Sep 2013 |
| 2011 | Co-author, "The Curious Tree: Charles Dodgson and the Iffley Yew," The Knight Letter, Dec 2011, with Alison Gopnik, presented at the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, New York City, Nov 2011 |
| 2006 | U S Patent 7,148,907, Mixed but Indistinguishable Raster and Vector Image Data Types, 12 Dec 2006 (incorporates U S Patent 6,870,545) |
| 2005 | U S Patent 6,870,545 (with 9 others), Mixed but Indistinguishable Raster and Vector Image Data Types, 22 Mar 2005 |
|
2001c |
U S Patent 6,301,382 (with Jim Blinn), Extracting a Matte of a Foreground Object from Multiple Backgrounds by Triangulation, 9 Oct 2001 |
|
2001b |
Digital photograph published, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagzeitung, 30, with article by friend Neal Stephenson, 7 Oct 2001 |
|
2001a |
Safari for digital photography to Serengeti, Ruaha, Olduvai, and Ngorongoro in Tanzania, 10-24 Aug 2001 |
|
2000b |
Published a poem, "Mankind's Most Malleable" in Tools of Vision, the catalog for photographer Neelon Crawford's exhibit at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, 26 Sep 2000 - 15 Jan 2001, published Oct 2000 |
|
2000a |
Attended the festshrift for Dr Michael A Arbib, my PhD advisor, Los Angeles, Aug 2000: USC Symposium on Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience, a tribute on the occasion of his 60th birthday |
|
1999c |
Attended the 70th birthday celebration for Bert Herzog in Providence RI, 18 Apr 1999 |
|
1999b |
Attended the 50th anniversary celebration of the EDSAC computer in Cambridge UK, Apr 1999. The “first electronic, stored-program, fully programmable, digital computer” |
|
1999a |
Unofficial advisor to Anne Morgan Spalter, author of The Computer in the Visual Arts, Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, Jan 1999. Also contributed jacket blurb |
|
1998 |
Presenter at the Digital Campfire, SIGGRAPH, Orlando FL, Jul 1998. Also, an official SIGGRAPH trading card was issued with my picture on it (as part of 25th anniversary of SIGGRAPH). And, my NYIT paint3 program, used to defeat the Quantel patents, was demonstrated daily on the floor in the exhibition hall |
|
1997c |
Portrait included in set of 200, Wizards and Their Wonders: Portraits in Computing, Christopher Morgan, photos by Louis Fabian Bachrach (New York: ACM Press, 1997), 172-3 |
|
1997b |
Star witness for the defense, Quantel vs Adobe paint patent infringement trial, Wilmington DE, Sep 1997. Successfully invalidated five patents and exonerated Adobe and Photoshop |
|
1997a |
Presenter, Demo97, Palm Springs CA, Feb 1997 |
|
1995d |
Press conference and lecture, International Animated Film Festival and Market (Annecy ‘95 and MIFA’95), Annecy, France, Jun 1995 |
|
1995c |
Film show judge, Computer Animation Festival/Electronic Theater, SIGGRAPH 95, Los Angeles, May 1995 |
|
1995b |
Invited guest, DreamWorks Digital Animation Dream (DAD) Seminar, hosted by Jeffrey Katzenberg, Universal Studios, Mar 1995 |
|
1995a |
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Scientific or Technical Awards. Guest of Pixar, for Academy Award to David DiFrancesco for the color film laser scanner/printer he developed while working with me at Lucasfilm and Pixar. I contributed negotiations and scientific calculations to his project. Beverly Hills CA, Mar 1995 |
|
1992 |
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Scientific or Technical Awards. Guest of Walt Disney Productions at the ceremony where Disney and Pixar shared in the Academy Award for CAPS (Computer Animation Production System) which I initiated, wrote detailed proposals for, and negotiated with Disney (for 18 months). Los Angeles, Mar 1992 |
|
1991 |
Judge of the 1991 Truevision Art Contest, Indianapolis, Jun 1991 |
|
1989b |
Judge of the 1989 Truevision Art Contest, Indianapolis, Jun 1989 |
|
1989a |
Star witness for the defense, Quantel vs Spaceward paint patent infringement trial,
London, Feb 1989 |
|
1985 |
Session chairman, Computer Animation Tutorial, NCGA, Dallas, Apr 1985 |
|
1983 |
Judge for National Video Festival Student Competition, American Film Institute, Los Angeles, Sep 1983 |
|
1980 |
U S Patent 4,189,743 (with Ed Catmull), Apparatus and Method for Automatic Coloration and/or Shading of Images, 19 Feb 1980 |
|
1978b |
Member of the IEEE Computer Society Delegation to the People's Republic of China, Beijing, Nanking, Shanghai, Wuxi, Hangchow, and Kuangchow, Oct 1978. Dinner with the Chairman of China, Hua Guo Feng |
|
1978-1987 |
Tutorial lecturer, SIGGRAPH annual conferences, 1978-1985, 1987 |
|
1968 |
Mountain
climbing, ascent of Mt. Shasta, altitude 14,162 feet (4,317 meters),
Siskiyou County, California, 6 Jun 1968, the day after Bobby Kennedy was
killed. I was accompanied by my friends Bob Kadlec and Bob Tripodi. We
dedicated the climb, in a book at the summit, to Bobby. |
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1965 |
New Mexico State University, Physical Sciences Laboratory. Designed an antenna (broadband equiangular spiral) for the first Nimbus weather satellite using computer graphics. My first computer graphics |
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1964 |
Mountain climbing, solo ascent of volcano Popocateptl, altitude 17,925 feet (5,465 meters), near Mexico City, Easter Week |
PERSONAL DATA
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Born: |
8 Sep 1943, Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto Co., TX |
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Raised: |
Clovis, Curry Co., NM (secondarily, Las Cruces, Doña Ana Co., NM) |
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Family: |
sons Sam and Jesse by ex-wife Zu, second wife Alison Gopnik |
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Email: |
alvyray at gmail dot com |
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Website: |