Alan V. Norton
About Alan V. Norton
Affiliations
- IBM Corporation, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Location
- Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America
Bio
SIGGRAPH 1991
Dr. Norton was born in Utah. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Utah in 1968 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton in 1976. He served on the mathematics faculty of University of Utah and Hamilton College, then became interested in computer graphics while consulting at Evans and Sutherland Computer Co. In 1980 he joined the IBM T.J Watson Research Center, working with Benoit Mandelbrot on the computation and visualization of fractals. In 1982 Norton initiated an investigation of architecture for parallel processing which led to the founding in 1984 of the RP3 Research Parallel Processing Project. In 1987, Norton established a project at IBM in computer animation research in the area of fractals and physically-based modeling. Norton is the Courses Chair for SIGGRAPH ’92.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH 1992: G-Tech
- SIGGRAPH 2003: Web Graphics
- SIGGRAPH 2002: Web Graphics
- SIGGRAPH 1991: Courses
Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 1993: Courses
Conference Contributions
Artworks
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[2D and Wall-Hung]Artist(s):
[2D and Wall-Hung]Artist(s): Artwork Collaborations
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[3D and Sculpture]Artist(s): Animations / Videos
Learning
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Courses
Technical Papers
Sessions Moderated
- “High-Level Procedural Shading VRML/X3D” by de Carvalho
- “Flux: Lightweight, Standards-Based Web Graphics in XML” by Parisi
- “Extensible Behavior Simulation With Motion Archive” by Kuriyama, Mukai, Irino, Anda and Kaneko
- “Processing: A Context for Learning Interactive Web Graphics” by Reas and Fry
- “A Haptic Interface for the Explorable Virtual Human” by Prince, Reinig and Rockwood
- “Collaborative Online 3D Editing” by Basu and Cheng
- “Geometry Compression for ASCII Scenes” by Isenburg
- “Adaptive Solid Texturing for Web Graphics” by Chen and Nishita
- “Combining Procedural, Polygonal, and Bitmap Representations Using XML” by Ollila and Henrysson
- “Wegzeit: The Geometry of Relative Distance” by Offenhuber
- “CT (City Tomography)” by Matsumoto and Wakita
- “_knowscape, a 3D Multi-User Experimental Web Browser” by Keller, Babski, Carion and Guignard
Other Information
Roles
- Art Show Artist
- Computer Animation Director
- Course Presenter
- Courses Jury Member
- Courses Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Courses Organizing Committee Member
- Emerging Technologies Organizing Committee Member
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Web Graphics Moderator
- Web Graphics Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Web Graphics Organizing Committee Member
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