*** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING *** Prof Ken Perlin, Department of Computer Science, New York University
Friday, 25th August 2006, 1400 - 1500 (UTC, GMT+1) Room 1.10, Kilburn Building Professor Ken Perlin, a leading figure in the world of computer-generated animation, will be giving an impromptu talk on a subject of interest during a flying visit to the U.K. Ken Perlin <http://mrl.nyu.edu/perlin> is a professor in the Department of Computer Science <http://cs.nyu.edu> at New York University <http://www.nyu.edu>. He was founding director of the Media Research Laboratory <http://mrl.nyu.edu> and also directed the NYU Center for Advanced Technology from 1994-2004. His research interests include graphics, animation, user interfaces, science education and multimedia. In January 2004 he was the featured artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art <http://artport.whitney.org/gatepages/january04.shtml>. In 2002 he received the NYC Mayor's award for excellence in Science and Technology and the Sokol award for outstanding Science faculty at NYU. In 1997 he won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his /noise/ and /turbulence/ procedural texturing techniques, which are widely used in feature films and television. In 1991 he received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. Prof. Perlin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University in 1986, and a B.A. in theoretical mathematics from Harvard University in 1979. He was Head of Software Development at R/GREENBERG Associates in New York, NY from 1984 through 1987. Prior to that, from 1979 to 1984, he was the System Architect for computer generated animation at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc., Elmsford, NY, where the first feature film he worked on was TRON <http://mrl.nyu.edu/perlin/tron>. He has served on the Board of Directors of the New York chapter of ACM/SIGGRAPH, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Software Industry Association. Further information about Ken's research can be found at: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/ More information about MC/ESMW seminars, including instructions for joining by Access Grid, can be found at http://www.mc.manchester.ac.uk/research/seminars/ Jon Gibson Manchester Computing
