Distinguished Lecture Series Previously Featured Guests

Through our Distinguished Lecture Series, we bring in the leading thinkers in both industry and academia. The series attracts a large audience of faculty, students and staff from GVU and many other areas of campus, as well as members of Atlanta's business and academic communities. Here is a list of guests that have been featured since the creation of the program.


Series Year

Speaker

Lecture Title
2002-2003 Tom Rodden
Lancaster University
"Combining Physical and Digital Interaction"
Carlo Séquin
University of California - Berkeley
"Art, Math, and Sculpture"
2001-2002 Eric Grimson
Massachussetts Institute of Technology
"Computer-Vision Assisted Surgery"
Clifford Nass
Stanford University
"How People Treat Computer and Web Interfaces Like People"
Ken Perlin
New York University
"Star Wars Chess on the Holodeck"
2000-2001 Wendy MacKay
INRIA
"Reinventing the Familiar: Augmented Paper Artifacts"
Henry Fuchs
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Immersive Displays in the Office of the Future"
George Robertson
Microsoft Research
"From Hierarchies to Polyarchies: Visualizing Multiple Relationships"
Jitendra Malik
UC Berkeley
"Visual Grouping and Recognition"
1999-2000 Takeo Kanade
Carnegie Mellon University
"Virtualized Reality: Digitizing a 3D Time-Varying
Real Event As Is and in Real Time"
Gary M. Olson and Judith S. Olson
University of Michigan
"Distance Matters"
Ambuj Goyal
IBM Research
"Transactional Internet: The Coyote Model"
Bonnie Nardi
AT&T Labs West
"netWORK: The Invisible Work of Social Connectivity"
Neil Gershenfeld
MIT Media Lab
"Things That Think"
1998-1999 Hiroshi Ishii
MIT Media Lab
"Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interface Between People, Bits, & Atoms"
Don Norman
Nielsen-Norman Group
"How Computer Graphics is Changing Hollywood"
Tom Moran
Xerox PARC
"Workscape of the Future: Is it Real or is it Cyber?"
1997-1998 Bill Buxton
Alias/Wavefront & Silicon Graphics, Inc.
"Less is More (More or Less)"
Alvy Ray Smith
Microsoft Corporation
"The Single Creative App"
Randy Pausch
Carnegie Mellon University
"Imagineering Virtual Worlds"
1996-1997 Demetri Terzopoulosi
University of Toronto
"Artificial Animals: Creation and Application"
Joy Mountford
Interval Research Corporation
"When Will Design Disappear?"
Bruce Tognazzini
Healtheon Corporation
"Society and the Internet in the Coming Decade"
1995-1996 Fred Brooks
University of North Carolina
"Realizing Virtual Worlds"
Stuart Card
Xerox PARC
"Information Visualization & Information Foraging"
Andrew Witkin
Carnegie Mellon University
"Interactive Simulation"
1994-1995 Jack Loomis
University of California - Santa Barbara
"Auditory and Visual Research Using Virtual Displays"
Don Norman
Apple Computers
"Trends in the Computer Industry: Life-Long Subscriptions, Magical Cures, and the Search for Profits Along the Information Highway"
Michael Cohen
Microsoft Corporation
"Simulation + Optimization = Design?"
Dave Liddle
Interval Research Corporation
"Interval: An Experiment in Managing Research"
Don Greenberg
Cornell University
"Imaging in the Electronic Age: Architecture, Art, & Design"
Arie Kaufman
State University of New York
"Volume Graphics"
1993-1994 Elliot Soloway
University of Michigan
"Reading and Writing in the 21st Century"
Pat Hanrahan
Princeton University
The Scientific Basis of Rendering"
Dan Olsen
Brigham Young University
"Parametric Spaces: A Visual Metaphor for Graphical Constraints"
Ben Shneiderman
University of Maryland
"User Interfaces for Information Visualization"
Jakob Nielsen
Bellcore
"Discount Usability Engineering"
Judith S. Olson
University of Michigan
"Understanding the Group Processes in Technology Supported Group Work"
1992-1993 Steve Pizer
University of North Carolina
"Image-Object Vision by Human and Computer"
Ron Baecker
University of Toronto
"The User-Centered Iterative Design of Collaborative Writing Software"
David Kieras
University of Michigan
"Analytic Models for User Interface Design"
Tom Furness
University of Washington
"Expeditions in Virtual Space"
Jim Kajiya
California Institute of Technology
"The Future of Computer Graphics in Research"
Frank Halasz
Xerox Corporation
"Seven Issues Revisited: An Agenda for the Next Generation of Hypermedia Systems"
1991-1992
(GVU Seminar Series)
Barry Arons "Hyperspeech: Navigating in Speech-Only Hypermedia"
Randy Pausch
University of Virginia
"Virtual Reality on Five Dollars a Day"
G. Scott Owen
Georgia State University
"Visualization Education in the USA"
Myron Krueger "Artificial Reality"
Matthias Schneider
Siemens
"User Interface Research Projects at Siemens Corporate Research and Development"
Charles van der Mast
Delft Institute of Technology
"Delft Direct Manipulation Manager (D2M2)"
Bill Gaver
Xerox Corporation
"Human Computer Interfaces and Technology Affordances"
Beat Bruderlin "Symbolic Computer Geometry"
Forest Baskett
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
"Future Directions in High Performance 3-D Graphics Hardware"
Larry Stead "Pretty Pictures can be Pretty Painful: A Backstage Tour of Computer Animation"
Susan Brummel "Designing Information Systems for Universal Accessibility"
Woodrow Barfield
University of Washington
"Empirical Studies on Computer Graphics, Virtual Displays, and Virtual Environments"
Ray Bareiss "ASK Systems: A Methodology for Realizing Story-Based Teachers"

 

 



 

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