Sandy Ressler
About Sandy Ressler
Affiliations
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Bio
2024
Sandy Ressler has over 40 years of experience with a wide variety of computer graphics and user interface technologies. Starting a career at Bell Labs followed by a stint at a video game startup he is a pioneer and visionary in the development of 3D computer graphics for use on the Internet. He was on the Web3D Consortium’s, Board of Directors for six years, two of which as Vice President. From 1997-2001, he created and ran the world’s leading web site for 3D on the web at About.com. Ressler has also authored three books, two on electronic publishing and co-authored the classic “Life with UNIX.” He championed NIST membership in the Khronos Group, a standards development organization developing many relevant computer graphics and other standards influencing the rapidly evolving “metaverse.” He was recently named to an influential list “100 Original Voices in XR.” He holds an MFA in visual arts (computer graphics) from Rutgers University, a long time ago 😉
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2005: Web Program
Conference Contributions
Experiences
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Birds of a Feather
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[History]Real-Time Live!
Contributor(s): Learning
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Posters
Sessions Moderated
- “Earth’s Avatar – The Web-Augmented Virtual Earth” by Weiley and Thorne
- “Candytop: A Web3D Interface to Visualize Growth of Multimedia Documents” by Wakita, Yoshida, Miyazaki and Chiyokura
- “Design Patterns for Pseudo-3D Photo Collage” by Tanaka, Arikawa and Shibasaki
- “An Investigation of Best Practices for Interactive Content Controls” by Mohler, Kothary and Glotzbach
- “Making Accessible Web Graphics” by Jackson and Froumentin
- “The Reality Cluster – Realtime Multimedia Communication With Persistence” by Hall and Wan
- “Flash MX Live: Real-Time Video and Audio Delivery in Multi-User Environments” by Reinhardt
- “Real-Time 3DX: Demo or Die” moderated by Sandy Ressler and Leonard Daly
Other Information
Roles
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- History Contributor
- Poster Presenter
- Special Session Presenter
- Web Graphics Jury Member
- Web Graphics Moderator
- Web Graphics Organizing Committee Member
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