Olin Lathrop
About Olin Lathrop
- Affiliations
- Cognivision, Inc., Vice President
- Apollo Computer Inc.
- Location
- Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Bio
SIGGRAPH 1999
Olin Lathrop works for Cognivision, Inc., where he does consulting and custom software development for computer graphics. Olin holds a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Olin has also worked at Hewlett- Packard, Raster Technologies, and Apollo Computer, where he specialized in graphics hardware design. Olin is the author of the introductory book The Way Computer Graphics Works.
SIGGRAPH 1997
Olin Lathrop works for Cognivision, Inc., where he does consulting and custom software development for computer graphics. Olin holds a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Olin has also worked at Hewlett- Packard, Raster Technologies, and Apollo Computer, where he specialized in graphics hardware design. Olin wrote the introductory book The Way Computer Graphics Works.
SIGGRAPH 1994
Olin lathrop is a founder and V.P. of Engineering of Cognivision Inc., a company specializing in computer graphics and visualization software and services, and associated consulting and education. His current interests are in visualization algorithms and techniques, and learning how to best present information for human understanding. He previously worked at Apollo Computer on the graphics architecture of the DN10000VS workstation, and at Raster Technologies designing 30 graphics products such as the model One/380 and the model One/25-S. Mr. lathrop is an occasional lecturer on computer graphics and data visualization at conferences and universities, but also enjoys teaching the basics to newcomers in the field. He received his B.S. (’78) and M.Eng. (’80) in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
SIGGRAPH 1993
Olin Lathrop is one of the two founders and V.P. of Research of Cognivision Inc., a company specializing in data visualization software and services. His current interests are in visualization algorithms and techniques, and learning how to best present information for human understanding. He previously worked at Apollo Computer on the graphics architecture of the DN10000VS workstation, and at Raster Technologies designing 3D graphics products such as the model One/380 and the model One/25-S. Mr. Lathrop is an occasional lecturer on computer graphics and data visualization at conferences and universities, but also enjoys teaching the basics to newcomers in the field. He received his B.S. (’78) and M.Eng. (’80) in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
SIGGRAPH 1991
Olin Lathrop is co-founder and Vice President of Research at Cognivision, Inc., a company specializing in data visualization software and services. He is currently interested in visualization algorithms, techniques, and how to best present information for human understanding. He previously worked at Apollo Computer on the DN10000/VS graphics subsystem, and at Raster Technologies on 30 products such as the Model One/25-S and the Model One/380. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1978 and 1980, respectively.
Conference Contributions
- Animations / Videos
- Presentations
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- Courses Organized
- “Fundamentals and Overview of Computer Graphics” by Lathrop, Badler, Fichera and Machover
- “Fundamentals and Overview of Computer Graphics” by Lathrop, Badler, Fichera and Machover
- “Fundamentals and Overview of Computer Graphics” by Lathrop, Badler, Fichera and Machover
- “State of the Art in Data Visualization” by Lathrop, Brown, Legensky, Smith, Treinish, et al. …
- “Fundamentals And Overview Of Computer Graphics” Chaired by Olin Lathrop
- “Fundamentals and Overview of Computer Graphics” by Lathrop, Badler, Fichera and Machover
- “Fundamentals and Overview of Computer Graphics” by Lathrop, Fichera, Machover and Badler
- “Fundamentals and Overview of Computer Graphics” by Lathrop, Fichera, Glassner and Machover
- “Fundamentals and Overview of Computer Graphics” by Lathrop, Fichera, Glassner and Machover
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