Alan Barr
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- California Institute of Technology, Computer Science, Professor of Computer Science
Location:
- Pasadena, California, United States of America
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 1993
Alan Barr is a Professor of Computer Science and faculty member in the Computation and Neural Systems department at the California Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1983, joining the Caltech faculty shortly thereafter. In 1988, he received the Siggraph Achievement award for his work in computer graphics modeling, particularly for physically based and teleological modeling.
SIGGRAPH 1992
Alan Barr is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and faculty member in the Computation and Neural Systems department at the California Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1983, joining the Caltech faculty shortly thereafter. In 1988, he received the Siggraph Achievement award for his work in computer graphics modeling, particularly for physically based and teleological modeling.
SIGGRAPH 1984
Alan H. Barr is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the California Institute of Technology. He received his doctorate in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has been a senior research scientist at Raster Technologies, Inc. His primary research interests are modeling techniques and the generic mathematical and computational machinery involved in both simulation of 3-D dynamic response and graphic appearance of natural phenomenon.
Course Organizer:
- SIGGRAPH 1986, "Developments in Ray Tracing"
- SIGGRAPH 1987, "Topics in Physically Based Modeling"
- SIGGRAPH 1988, "Developments in Physically-Based Modeling"
- SIGGRAPH 1984, "The Mathematics of Computer Graphics"
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Artwork Collaboration(s):
Learning Presentation(s):

Type: [Courses]
RES An Introduction to Physically Based Modeling
Organizer(s): [Kass] [Witkin]
Presenter(s): [Kass] [Witkin] [Baraff] [Barr]
Entry No.: [60]
[SIGGRAPH 1993]

Type: [Courses]
An Introduction to Physically Based Modeling
Organizer(s): [Kass] [Witkin]
Presenter(s): [Witkin] [Kass] [Barr] [Baraff]
Entry No.: [19]
[SIGGRAPH 1992]

Type: [Courses]
Computer Graphics in Science
Organizer(s): [Cook]
Presenter(s): [Cook] [Olson] [Nathan] [Barr] [Fangmeier] [Stephenson]
Entry No.: [20]

Type: [Courses]
Developments in Physically-Based Modeling
Organizer(s): [Barr]
Presenter(s): [Barr] [Abel] [Barzel] [Greenberg] [Platt] [Reynolds]
Entry No.: [27]

Type: [Courses]
Computer Graphics and the Sciences
Organizer(s): [Cook]
Presenter(s): [Cook] [Barr] [Blinn] [Carpenter] [Drebin] [Haber] [Olson]
Entry No.: [27]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]

Type: [Courses]
Topics in Physically Based Modeling
Organizer(s): [Barr]
Presenter(s): [Barr] [Barzel] [Haumann] [Platt] [Terzopoulos] [Witkin]
Entry No.: [17]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]

Type: [Courses]
Developments in Ray Tracing
Organizer(s): [Barr]
Presenter(s): [Barr] [Arvo] [Inakage] [Kajiya] [Blinn] [Cook] [Whitted]
Entry No.: [12]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]

Type: [Courses]
State of the Art in Image Synthesis
Organizer(s): [Cook]
Presenter(s): [Cook] [Crow] [Duff] [Barr] [Greenberg]
Entry No.: [15]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]