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Frontiers of Engineering Reports on Leading Edge Engineering from the 1996 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering (1997) / Chapter Skim
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Contributors
Pages 107-114

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From page 109...
... J Watson Research Center, manager of materials and technology development at the IBM East Fishkill Development Laboratory, director of research, and vice president.
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From page 110...
... She is also Associate Director for Marketing Communications at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her current research interests include virtual environments, tale-immersion, scientific visualization, new methodologies for informal science and engineering education, paradigms for information display, distributed computing, algorithm optimization for scalable computing, sonification, and human/computer interfaces.
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From page 111...
... Gabriel was a visiting associate professor at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. After leaving Bell Labs in 1991, he spent a year as a visiting scientist at the Naval Research Lab transferring micromechanics processing technology to the Nanoelectronics Processing Facility.
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From page 112...
... MARC LEVOY is an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University. His principal publications focus on computer animation, volume visualization, and machine vision, and his current research interests include volume rendering and morphing, digitizing the shape and appearance of physical objects using multiple sensing technologies, geometry and image compression, image-based rendering, and the design of languages and user interfaces for data visualization.
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From page 113...
... In 1981 he began a 5-year stint as a government civil servant, managing several computer science research funding programs for the Office of Naval Research. In 1986 he returned to USC and resumed his own parallel computing research work, leading parallel computing research projects at USC's Information Sciences Institute.
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From page 114...
... Dr. Wood has conducted experimental and analytical investigations of the behavior of structural components and has evaluated the performance of reinforced concrete buildings following the 1985 Chile and 1994 Northridge, California earthquakes.
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