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About Henry Sowizral

Affiliations
Boeing Computer Services, Research Scientist
Sun Microsystems, Senior Staff Engineer
Bio

SIGGRAPH 1999

Henry Sowizral is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems where he is the chief architect of the Java 3D API. His areas of interest include virtual reality, large model visualization, and distributed and concurrent simulation. He has taught tutorials on topics including expert systems and virtual reality at conferences including COMPCON, Supercomputing, VRAIS, and SIGGRAPH. Henry has taught Java 3D at SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, Visualization, JavaOne, VRAIS, and other conferences.

Henry is a co-author of the book The Java 3D API Specification, published by Addison-Wesley. He holds a B.S. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University.  

SIGGRAPH 1998

Henry Sowizral is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems where he is the chief architect of the Java 3D API. His areas of interest include virtual reality, large model visualization and distributed and concurrent simulation. He has taught numerous tutorials on topics including expert systems and virtual reality at conferences including COMPCON Supercomputing, VRAIS, and SIGGRAPH. Henry has taught Java 3D at SIGGRAPH 96, Java One, and other conferences. Henry is a co-author of the book The Java 3D API Specification, published by Addison-Wesley. He holds a B S in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine and an M Phil and PhD in Computer Science from Yale University.  

SIGGRAPH 1994

Henry Sowizral is a research scientist at Boeing Computer Services where he works on virtual reality and its application to design, visualization, manufacturing, and training. His research interests include graphics, compiler theory, and distributed and parallel systems, especially distributed simulation systems. Henry received his Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University in 1982.  

Conference Contributions

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2000 15 Course Cover Migrating to an Object Oriented Graphics API
Migrating to an Object-Oriented Graphics API
SIGGRAPH 2000
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1999 40 Course Cover Introduction to Programming With Java 3D
Introduction to Programming With Java 3D
SIGGRAPH 1999
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1999 Panels 08 Scene Graph APIs Wired or Tired
Scene Graph APIs: Wired or Tired
SIGGRAPH 1999
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1998 Course Cover 37 Introduction of Programming in Java 3D
Introduction to Programming in Java 3D
SIGGRAPH 1998
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1998 Panels 02 Look Ma! Four Hands! New Models
Look Ma! Four Hands! New Models for Interacting with 3D Worlds
SIGGRAPH 1998
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1997 35 Course Cover Introduction to Java3D
Introduction to Java3D
SIGGRAPH 1997
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1997 Panels 08 What 3D API for Java Should I Use and Why
What 3D API for Java Should I Use and Why?
SIGGRAPH 1997
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1994 02 Cover Developing Advanced Virtual Reality Applications
Developing Advanced Virtual Reality Applications
SIGGRAPH 1994
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