Craig Upson
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Silicon Studio Corp., Visualization Scientist
Other Affiliation(s):
- Stellar Computer Inc.
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
- Digital Productions, Inc.
Location:
- Champaign, Illinois, United States of America
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 1989
Craig Upson is a Visualization Scientist at Stellar Computer. His academic background is in numerical mathematics from the University of New Mexico. He worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for seven years performing three dimensional computational fluid dynamics research along with the development of computer graphics algorithms for the computational sciences. After leaving LLNL he worked in the film industry in Los Angeles at Digital Productions. His film credits include 2010, The Last Starfighter, and animations for several world’s fairs as well as television commercials and scientific films. After leading the Scientific Visualization effort at Digital Productions, a phase-1 National Science Foundation Supercomputing Center, Mr. Upson left to work as a research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. At NCSA he organized the Scientific Visualization project along with Nancy St. John. His current duties at Stellar Computer include the design of visualization environments for computational scientists and engineers. He has published numerous papers in the field of computer animation and fluid dynamics.
Course Organizer:
Experience Jury Member:
Learning Presentation(s):
Type: [Panels]
New Developments in Animation Production for Video Games Presenter(s): [Greenberg] [Lewis] [Stein] [Upson]
Entry No.: [07]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
Type: [Courses]
Two and Three Dimensional Visualization Workshop Organizer(s): [Upson]
Presenter(s): [Upson] [Wolff] [Weinberg] [Kerlick]
Entry No.: [13]
[SIGGRAPH 1989]
Type: [Panels]
Four Paths to Computer Animation: Entertainment, Broadcast, Education, And Science-Will Their Futures Converge? Presenter(s): [Blinn] [Kovacs] [Rosendahl] [Upson]
Entry No.: [03]
[SIGGRAPH 1988]
Type: [Technical Papers]
V-buffer: visible volume rendering Presenter(s): [Upson] [Keeler]
[SIGGRAPH 1988]
Type: [Courses]
Computer Graphics and Animation in the Physical Sciences Organizer(s): [Wolff]
Presenter(s): [Wolff] [Upson] [Kovacs] [Max] [Judd] [Hussey] [Balcom]
Entry No.: [28]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]
Type: [Panels]
Supercomputer Graphics Presenter(s): [Greenberg] [Keeler] [Max] [Upson] [Yaeger]
Entry No.: [05]
[SIGGRAPH 1987]
Learning Moderator Presentation(s):
Role(s):
- Art Show Artist
- Computer Animation Jury Member
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Panel Moderator
- Panel Presenter
- Technical Paper Presenter
