Eric I. Brechner

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):

Boeing Computer Services, Senior Principal Scientist

Other / Past Affiliation(s):

Microsoft Corporation, Software Design Engineer

Bio:

SIGGRAPH 1996

Eric Brechner is a member of the Media Foundation group at Microsoft. He was formally a Senior Principal Scientist at The Boeing Company where he worked in the areas of large scale visualization, computational geometry, network communications, data- flow languages, and software integration. He was the principal architect of FlyThruTM, the walkthrough program for the 20GB, 500+ million polygon model of the Boeing 777 aircraft, authoring three invention disclosures relating to that work. Before coming to Boeing, Eric had worked in computer graphics and CAD for Silicon Graphics Inc., GRAFTEK, the Rensselaer Design Research Center (formally the Center for Interactive Computer Graphics), and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He holds a BS and MS in mathematics, and a PhD in applied mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

SIGGRAPH 1995

Eric Brechner is a Senior Principal Scientist in the Research and Technology Division of Boeing Computer Services. He has been with Boeing for five years working in the areas of large scale visualization computational geometry network communications, data-flow languages and software integration. He was the principal architect of FlyThru™ the walkthrough program for the 20GB 500+ million polygon model of the Boeing 777 aircraft, authoring three invention disclosures relating to that work. He was also one of the principal architects of FlyThru™ Core and CAD Core. He is currently the Principal Investigator for the Access Manager Integration Framework and a new parametric solid modeler. Before coming to Boeing, Eric had worked in computer graphics and CAD for Silicon Graphics Inc. GRAFTEK. the Rensselaer Design Research Center (formally the Center for Interactive Computer Graphics) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He holds a BS and MS in mathematics, and a PhD in applied mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Course Organizer:

Learning Category: Presentation(s):

Type: [Courses ]
Interactive Walkthrough of Large Geometric Databases Organizer(s): [Brechner]
Presenter(s): [Brechner ] [Cabral ] [Greene ] [Rossignac ] [Funkhouser ]
Entry No.: [35 ]
[SIGGRAPH 1996]

Type: [Courses ]
Interactive Walkthrough of Large Geometric Databases Organizer(s): [Brechner]
Presenter(s): [Brechner ] [Funkhouser ] [Greene ] [Helman ] [Rossignac ]
Entry No.: [32 ]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]

Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Smoothly Maintaining a Vertical Orientation During Computer Animation Presenter(s): [Brechner ]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]

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