ACM SIGGRAPH Congratulates Henrik Wann Jensen, Stephen Marschner, and Pat Hanrahan on Their Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics, www.siggraph.org) The arm of the ACM that specializes in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Providing publications, workshops and conferences, it has served technicians and researchers as well as the artist and business community 2004 CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2004 Award Given for Paper "A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport" Presented at SIGGRAPH 2001 ACM SIGGRAPH
Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics researcher and professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University. on their Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. The award recognized their pioneering research in simulating subsurface scattering Subsurface scattering (or SSS) is a mechanism of light transport in which light penetrates the surface of a translucent object, is scattered by interacting with the material, and exits the surface at a different point. of light in translucent materials as presented in their SIGGRAPH 2001 paper, "A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport." The Technical Achievement Award was presented because the mathematical model
"Jensen, Marschner, and Hanrahan are long time SIGGRAPH conference contributors and papers committee members," said Alain Chesnais, ACM SIGGRAPH President. "The paper they presented at SIGGRAPH 2001 was heralded by attendees as groundbreaking research. It is a significant achievement that their work has now been recognized by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for its value to the motion picture industry." Colleagues at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. when the research was conducted, Jensen is now Assistant Professor, Computer Graphics Laboratory, Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. . Steve Marschner is Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department at Cornell University and Pat Hanrahan is the CANON USA Professor, Computer Graphics Laboratory, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments School of Engineering at Stanford University. Hanrahan received the Steven Anson Coons Steven Anson Coons ( ? – 1979) was an early pioneer in the field of computer graphical methods. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics at SIGGRAPH 2003. About ACM SIGGRAPH The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, New York, www.acm.org) A membership organization founded in 1947 dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of information processing. In addition to awards and publications, ACM also maintains special interest groups (SIGs) in the computer field. Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques is an interdisciplinary community interested in research, technology, and applications in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Members include researchers, developers and users from the technical, academic, business, and art communities. SIGGRAPH provides information to the computer graphics community through its annual conference, publications and the SIGGRAPH Video Review. Information on ACM SIGGRAPH membership and other conferences and activities can be found at www.siggraph.org. About SIGGRAPH 2004 SIGGRAPH 2004 will bring the international computer graphics and interactive technology community from six continents to Los Angeles for the week-long conference, 8-12 August. A comprehensive technical program and special events focusing on research, art, animation, games, interactivity, and the web are planned. SIGGRAPH 2004 includes a three-day exhibition of products and services for the computer graphics and interactive marketplace from 10-12 August 2004. For more information on SIGGRAPH 2004, see www.siggraph.org/s2004. About ACM The Association for Computing Machinery See ACM. Association for Computing Machinery - Association for Computing (ACM) is a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students. ACM serves its global membership of 75,000 by delivering cutting edge technical information and transferring ideas from theory to practice. ACM hosts the computing industry's leading Portal to Computing Literature. With its journals and magazines, special interest groups, conferences, workshops and electronic forums, ACM is a primary resource to the information technology field. For more information on ACM, see www.acm.org. |
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