Paul S. Heckbert
About Paul S. Heckbert
- Affiliations
- Pacific Data Images (PDI), Postdoctoral Researcher
- Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
- Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Computer Science Department
- GigaPan
- Bio
SIGGRAPH 1993
Paul Heckbert is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. For his BS degree in Mathematics at MIT, he developed algorithms for color image quantization, and at the New York Institute of Technology and Pixar, he developed software for computer animation. Paul received Master’s and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in the topics of texture mapping and global illumination, respectively. His research interests are computer graphics and image processing.
SIGGRAPH 1992
Paul Heckbert is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Starting in Fall 1992, Paul will be an assistant professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. For his BS degree in Mathematics at MIT, he developed algorithms for color image quantization, and at the New York Institute of Technology and Pixar, he developed software for computer animation. Paul received master’s and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in the topics of texture mapping and global illumination, respectively. His research interests are computer graphics and image processing.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Chair
- “Global Illumination” by Heckbert, Rushmeier, Shirley, Sillion and Ward
- “RES Global Illumination” by Heckbert, Arvo, Nishita and Shirley
- “Multiresolution Surface Modeling” by Heckbert, Hoppe, Rossignac, Schroeder, Soucy, et al. …
- Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2000: Technical Papers
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- Art Show Artist
- Art Show Collaborator
- Competition Coordinator
- Competition Participant
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Studio (SIGGRAPH Lab) Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
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