Web corporativa. Gord Kurtenbach Director of Research at Autodesk. Dr. Gordon Kurtenbach is the Senior Director of Research at Autodesk where he oversees a group whose focus is research on 3D interactive graphics in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Graphics. Prior to Autodesk, Gordon was the head the interactive graphics research group at Alias which researched advanced technologies for products such as Maya, AliasStudio, SketchBook and PortfolioWall.
Prior to Alias, Gordon was a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center working on pen based user interfaces for wall-sized display systems. Before Xerox, Gordon was a member of Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group researching gesture-based input techniques for graphical user interfaces. Gordon received a B.Sc. from University of Saskatchewan in 1984, a M.Sc. from University of Toronto in 1988, and a Ph.D. from University of Toronto in 1993 in Computer Science.
Gordon's Ph.D. work on "marking menus" is a patented feature used broadly in Autodesk products. George Fitzmaurice Head of User Interface Research Group. (Human-computer interaction) George Fitzmaurice, Ph.D. is a Director of Research and runs the User Interface Research Group for Autodesk. He has been with Autodesk (including Alias) for over 15 years conducting research in 2D and 3D UIs including: input devices, large displays, two-handed interaction, multi-touch, pen-based UIs, TrackingMenus, spatially-aware displays, 3D navigation and tangible UIs.
In the HCI community he established the field of Graspable UIs which is the pre-cursor to what is known as Tangible UIs. Currently, he is leading research projects on Advanced Learning Technologies for feature-rich software applications. Working with his colleagues he has helped to author over 60 HCI papers and over 30 patents. Notable product contributions include Maya 1.0 UI, SketchBook Pro UI design, ShowMotion™ for Showcase, the 3D Navigation tools (ViewCube™ and SteeringWheels™) and Chronicle for Autodesk products. Jos Stam Head of Simulation & Graphics Research Group. Jos Stam was born in the Netherlands and educated in Geneva, Switzerland, where he received dual Bachelor degrees in computer science and pure mathematics. In 1989, Stam moved to Toronto where he completed his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in computer science. After that he pursued postdoctoral studies as a ERCIM fellow at INRIA in France and at VTT in Finland.
In 1997 Stam joined the Alias Seattle office as a researcher and stayed there until 2003 to relocate to Alias' main office in Toronto. Stam is now employed with Autodesk as a Senior Research Scientist as part of Autodesk's acquisition of Alias in 2006. Stam's research spans several areas of computer graphics: natural phenomena, physics-based simulation, rendering and surface modeling, especially subdivision surfaces. He has published papers in all of these areas in journals and at conferences, most notably at the annual SIGGRAPH conference.
Francesco Iorio Senior Research Scientist on High Performance Computing at Autodesk Research. Francesco ‘Frio’ Iorio is a Senior Principal Research Scientist on High Performance Computing at Autodesk Research. His research focuses on software scalability on multi-core and many-core systems, hybrid computing, accelerator systems and general design and exploitation of parallel algorithms on a variety of high performance platforms.
Prior to Autodesk Frio was a Solution Architect for Next Generation Computing Systems at the IBM High Performance Computing Group in Dublin, where he was the lead solution architect for all Cell Broadband Engine processor (Cell/B.E.) related projects, with specific focus on accelerating financial, engineering and digital media workloads using hybrid high performance computing platforms. Previously he was a Senior Real-Time Software Architect at Alias, where he was involved in design and development of high performance 3D computer graphics software applications. He also enjoys playing ice hockey and racing radio-controlled cars.