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Dave Shreiner

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • ARM Inc., Adjunct Professor

Other / Past Affiliation(s):


  • Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI)
  • SGI
  • Unity Technologies

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  • United States of America

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  • SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

    Dave Shreiner computer-graphics practitioner, author, and educator. He currently is a graphics engineer and manager at Unity Technologies and an adjunct professor of computer science at Sonoma State University. Over his 30+ year career, he’s contributed to the definition and development of multiple graphics APIs; co-authored numerous books on computer-graphics APIs, most notably the “OpenGL Programming Guide” and “Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with WebGL”; presented over 40 courses, at SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia conferences; and was conference chair for the 41st North American SIGGRAPH.

    SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

    Dave Shreiner is a software engineer at Unity Technologies in their XR Graphics group. He’s been programming and teaching computer graphics, including numerous courses at SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia, for almost three decades. In addition to his technical skills, he’s contributed to numerous books including Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach using WebGL (with Ed Angel for the recently released 8th edition) and several versions of the OpenGL Programming Guide, the OpenGL ES Programming Guide. He was also the conference chair of SIGGRAPH 2014 in Vancouver.

    SIGGRAPH Asia 2014

    SIGGRAPH 1999Dave Shreiner
    Director, Graphics and GPU Computing, ARM, Inc.

    Dave Shreiner is computer graphics technologist at ARM, Inc., and has authored and presented courses on OpenGL and related technologies for over two decades. He is an author of The OpenGL Programming Guide (8th Edition; Addison Wesley; 2013); and co-author of the OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide (1st Edition; Addison Wesley; 2009) and Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach using WebGL (7th Edition; Addison Wesley; 2014). Dave was Conference Chair for SIGGRAPH 14.

    Dave is a member of the OpenGL development team at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems. He has over 10 years of experience with visual simulation and scientific visualization, including 8 years at Silicon Graphics. He has presented several lectures and courses on OpenGL at various conferences, including SIGGRAPH. He is co-author of the OpenGL Programming Guide (Addison-Wesley,3rd edition, 1999). Dave has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Delaware, and is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Santa Clara University.??

    SIGGRAPH Asia 2010

    Dave Shreiner has been involved in presenting OpenGL-related courses at SIGGRAPH since 1998. He is an author of The OpenGL Programming Guide (7th Edition; Addison Wesley; 2005) and co-author of the OpenGL ES Programming Guide (Addison Wesley; 2004). He has authored and presented courses on OpenGL for almost two decades worldwide, including authoring the original introductory OpenGL course taught at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems (SGI), creators of the OpenGL API.

    SIGGRAPH Asia 2008

    Dave Shreiner is a systems architect in ARM, Inc.’s Media Processing Division. He has been involved in presenting OpenGL-related courses at SIGGRAPH since 1998. He is an author of The OpenGL Programming Guide (5th Edition; Addison Wesley; 2005), the OpenGL Reference Manual (4th Edition; Addison Wesley; 2004), co-author of The OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide (1st Edition; Addison-Wesley), and the series editor for all Addison-Wesley OpenGL texts. He has authored and presented courses on OpenGL for over a decade worldwide, including authoring the original OpenGL course taught at SGI. He has a bachelors of science in mathematics from the University of Delaware.


    SIGGRAPH 1998

    Dave is a member of the OpenGL development team at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems. He has 10 years of experience with visual simulation and scientific visualization including 7 years at Silicon Graphics. He was the original author of Introductory OpenGL Programming for Silicon Graphics Technical Education department. Dave has a Bachelors of Mathematics from University of Delaware and has done graduate work at the Johns Hopkins University.??

     

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