Ken Perlin
About Ken Perlin
Affiliations
- New York University, Future Reality Lab, Department of Computer Science, _Professor
- R/Greenberg Associates, Head of Software Development
Location
- New York, New York, United States of America
Website
- http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/
Bio
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011
Widely respected and emulated for his Academy Award-winning work in noise and turbulence procedural texturing techniques, which are used in feature films and television today, Ken Perlin is deemed as one of the industry’s top innovator
SIGGRAPH 2009
Ken Perlin is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at New York University, directs the NYU Games For Learning Institute. He was also founding director of the Media Research Laboratory and director of the NYU Center for Advanced Technology. His research interests include graphics, animation, user interfaces, science education and multimedia. Amongst many honours, he received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his noise and turbulence procedural texturing techniques, which are widely used in feature films and television, as well as the 2008 ACM/SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award.
SIGGRAPH 1996
Ken Perlin is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Media Research Laboratory at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Courant Institute and his B.A. in Theoretical Mathematics at Harvard University. In 1991 he was a recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award. Dr. Perlin was Head of Software Development at R/GREENBERG Associates in New York, NY from 1984 through 1987. Prior to that he was the System Architect for computer generated animation at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc., Elmsford, NY. from 1979 to 1984. He has served on the Board of Directors of the New York chapter of ACM/SIGGRAPH. His algorithms for computer graphics have been widely used in commercials and feature films.
SIGGRAPH 1994
Ken Perlin is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Media Research Laboratory at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Courant Institute and his B.A. in Theoretical Mathematics at Harvard University. In 1991 he was a recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award. Dr. Perlin was Head of Software Development at R/GREENBERG Associates in New York, NY from 1984 through 1987. Prior to that he was the System Architect for computer-generated animation at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc., Elmsford, NY, from 1979 to 1984. He has served on the Board of Directors of the New York chapter of ACM/SIGGRAPH. His algorithms for computer graphics have been widely used in commercials and feature films.
SIGGRAPH 1992
Ken Perlin is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University since 1987. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Courant Institute and his B.A. in Theoretical Mathematics at Harvard University. Dr. Perlin was Head of Software Development at R/GREENBERG Associates in New York, NY, from 1984 through 1987. Prior to that he was the System Architect for computer generated animation at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc., Elmsford, NY. from 1979 to 1984. He is a recipient of the 1991 Presidential Young Investigator Award, and he serves on the Board of Directors of the New York chapter of ACM/SIGGRAPH. He has developed software for a number of films and commercials using computer graphics but his favorite is still TRON, no matter what anybody says.
SIGGRAPH Member Profile
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SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 1999: Emerging Technologies: The Millennium Hotel
- SIGGRAPH 2022: Appy Hour
- SIGGRAPH 2021: Appy Hour
- SIGGRAPH 2019: Appy Hour
- SIGGRAPH 2022: Emerging Technologies
- SIGGRAPH 2021: Emerging Technologies
- SIGGRAPH 2019: Emerging Technologies
- SIGGRAPH 1998: Enhanced Realities
- SIGGRAPH 2022: Labs
- SIGGRAPH 2021: Labs
- SIGGRAPH 2006: Sketches
- SIGGRAPH 2019: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2021: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2022: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2022: Panels
- SIGGRAPH 2021: Panels
- SIGGRAPH 2019: Panels
Conference Contributions
Animations / Videos
Experiences
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Emerging Technologies
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Contributor(s):Entry #: 09 Experience Collaborations
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Contributor(s):Entry #: 26 Competitions Participated
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Learning
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Art Papers and Presentations
Courses
Education
Keynotes
Panels
Posters
Talks-Sketches
Technical Papers
Sessions Moderated
- “Tool Kits: A Product of Their Environments” Moderated by Ken Perlin
- “3D volumetric display using passive optical scatterers” by Nayar and Anand
- “Antialiasing for automultiscopic 3D displays” by Zwicker, Matusik, Durand, Pfister and Forlines
- “A framework for holographic scene representation and image synthesis” by Ziegler, Kaufmann and Gross
- “Eavesdripping: water as physical display” by Pohflepp
- “POCOMZ: An Ambient Media Device with IM Application “wija”” by , Saito, Shigefuji, Takahashi and Inakage
- “Metazoa Ludens” by Tan, Todorovic, Teh, Andrejin, Ping, et al. …
- “Robo Topobo: improvisational performance with robotic toys” by Raffle, Yip and Ishii
- “MARA: an augmented personal assistant and companion” by Schmeil and Broll
- “Chop it up!: animation–driven modeling, simulation, and shading in the kitchen” by Coleman and Froemling
- “Virtual tailoring for Ratatouille: clothing the fattest man in the world” by Waggoner and Baraff
- “Articulating the appeal” by Konishi and Venturini
- “500 million and counting: hair rendering on Ratatouille” by Ryu
- “Fast, soft reflections using radiance caches” by Shah, Ritter, King and Gronsky
- “Effective toon-style rendering control using scalar fields” by Harvill
SIGGRAPH Organization Contributions
Community Events
- 2022 Featured Speaker: Ken Perlin
Other Information
Roles
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member
- Art Papers Author
- Art Papers Jury Member
- Art Show Artist
- Art Show Speaker/Presenter
- Awardee
- Competition Participant
- Computer Animation Director
- Conference Support Committee Member: General Jury
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Education Program Presenter
- Emerging Technologies Collaborator
- Emerging Technologies Jury Member
- Emerging Technologies Presenter
- Immersive Pavilion (VR Village) Developer
- Keynote/Featured Speaker
- Panel Moderator
- Panel Presenter
- Panels Organizing Committee Member
- Real-Time Live Presenter
- SIGKids Contributor
- Talk (Sketch) Moderator
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
- Talks (Sketches) Organizing Committee Member
- Technical Paper Presenter
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