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wins
six VES awards, including single best visual effect of 2009; Weta Digital
used software co-developed by Imager faculty member Robert Bridson to simulate
water in that scene and elsewhere in the film.
August 2009 Imager faculty member Robert Bridson helps unveil start-up
company he cofounded, Exotic Matter, developing software for physics-based
animation in film visual effects. (
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April 2009 Imager faculty member
Joanna McGrenere
and her students Leah Findlater, Karyn Moffatt, and Jessica Dawson win Best Paper at CHI 2009 for their
work on
ephemeral adaptation.
March 2009 Imager faculty members receive prestigious UBC awards: Ron
Rensink is awarded the Killam Research Prize in Arts and Alla Sheffer is
awarded a Killam Faculty Research Fellowship. (
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January 2009 Work by Imager faculty
Robert
Bridson and Imager alumni Yongning Zhu and Brent Williams is
featured in
CGWorld
magazine next month, concerning its use for visual effects in last
summer's film
Hell Boy II: The Golden Army
December 2008 Imager researchers have another great run of papers
at a major conference. Lab members contributed to 6 projects presented at the
first
Siggraph Asia conference,
located in Singapore:
more...October 20, 2008 Dolby Laboratories, and the University of British Columbia announced the establishment of the
Dolby Research Chair in Computer Science for
Dr. Wolfgang Heidrich.
more...August 2008 Imager Faculty Robert Bridson's
first book, on
fluid simulation,
sells out at SIGGRAPH. Bridson also co-wrote fluid simulation software for Double Negative
Visual Effects that was used in movies
The Dark Knight and
Hell Boy II: The Golden Army.
July 2008 Imager Faculty Joanna McGrenere
and Alla Sheffer are promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.
June 2008 The following Imager students
received graduate fellowships for 2008—2009:
more...June 2008 Alla Sheffer receives the
UBC Computer Science
Incredible Instructor
award for spring 2007.
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