Robert Sherman Wolff
About Robert Sherman Wolff
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Senior Research Scientist
- Location
- Pasadena, California, United States of America
- Bio
SIGGRAPH 1989
Robert Wolff is senior research scientist in the User Technologies Group at Apple Computer. For 11 years prior to joining Apple he was a space physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA. He spent a significant amount of his time designing computing environments for planetary missions and doing graphics simulations of MHD phenomena. Wolff has been working on scientific visualization problems since 1981 and has produced several computer animations, articles and courses on scientific visualization. He is a member of the Voyager Plasma Science Team, guest investigator on the Pioneer Venus Mission, and a co-investigation on the Volcanology Experiment on the upcoming Earth Observing Systems Mission. He is visiting research scientist at the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Astronomical Society, and the Association for Computing Machinery. Wolff holds B.S. and M.S. degree in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MIT, respectively, and a Ph.D. in physics from Brandeis University.
Conference Contributions
- Animations / Videos
- Experiences
- Presentations
- Sessions Moderated
- “Visualization Technologies as a Tool for Science Education” Moderated by Robert Sherman Wolff
- Courses Organized
- “Computer Graphics and Animation in the Physical Sciences” by Wolff, Upson, Kovacs, Max, Judd, et al. …
- “Visualization Techniques in the Physical Sciences” by Wolff, Hussey, Haber, Treinish and Yaeger
- “What Will Gigabit Networks Do for Visualization?” Moderated by
- “Mars Navigator: An Interactive, Multimedia Exploration of the Red Planet” by Anderson, Hughes, Volotta and Stein
Other Information
- Roles
- Computer Animation Director
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Panel Presenter
- Panels Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
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