Monday May 23 1:00 - 1:50 PM *** NOTE the special time *** Kelley 1001
Li-Yi Wei Microsoft Research Redmond, WA Computing Natural Repetitions Repetition is an integral part of nature. Hardly can we go by our daily lives without encountering repetitive structures or activities. Being such a ubiquitous phenomenon, repetition has been an important subject of study in a variety of science and engineering disciplines. In a sense, computer science existed primarily for dealing with repetitive tasks. However, most prior methods can handle only artificial repetitions which may lack proper variations commonly see in nature. Thus, one of my main research directions is computing natural repetitions. I will introduce this fascinating subject, and describe core algorithms as well as applications in graphics, parallel computing, and human computer interaction. For more information, see http://www.liyiwei.org/ Biography I am currently a researcher at Microsoft Research, working with labs in Redmond, Beijing, San Francisco, as well as several universities. Before that I have been architecting graphics chips with NVIDIA until 2005. I obtained my Ph.D. from Stanford in 2001. I like computer graphics because it allows me to work on almost any subject in art, science, and engineering. I am also interested in parallel computing, hardware architecture, human computer interaction, or whatever subjects that my collaborators force me to learn. _______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium
