Introduction to Programming with Java 3D
Lecturer information
Henry A. Sowizral (Organizer)
Title |
Distinguished Engineer |
Affiliation |
Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Address |
901 San Antonio Road, MS UMPK14-202
Palo Alto, CA 94303-4900
UPS, Fed Ex: 14 Network Circle
Menlo Park, CA, 94025 |
Email |
henry.sowizral@eng.sun.com |
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.
David R. Nadeau
Title |
Principal Scientist |
Affiliation |
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
Address |
NPACI/SDSC, MC 0505
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0505 |
Email |
nadeau@sdsc.edu |
Home page |
http://www.sdsc.edu/~nadeau |
Dave Nadeau is a principal scientist at the San Diego
Supercomputer Center, a national research center specializing
in computational science and engineering, located on the campus of
the University of California, San Diego.
His areas of interest include scientific visualization and virtual reality,
He has taught Java 3D and VRML at multiple conferences including
SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, Supercomputing, WebNet, WMC/SCS, VRAIS,
and Visualization.
Dave is a co-author of
The VRML 2.0 Sourcebook
published by John Wiley & Sons.
He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of
Colorado, Boulder, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue
University, and is in the Ph.D. program in Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.