January 2012:
PC World lists the
programmable
friction touch pad interaction techniques developed in Imager/SPIN
as one of the top ten tech research projects from the past year.
Watch the video here.
December 2011:
Imager faculty Alla Sheffer and collaborators
win
first prize in the 2011 International Audi Production Award competition,
for their work on energy-efficient tool paths in CNC machining.
November 2011:
Congratulations to recent Imager graduates:
Rock Leung and Gordon Wetzstein (PhD);
Landon Boyd,
Matthew Brehmer,
Kai Ding,
Gökhan Himmetoglu,
Ben Jones,
Ron Maharik,
Amirhossein Mehrabian,
Mohan Rajamanickam,
Tao Su, and
Suwen Wang (MSc).
October 2011:
The Adventures of Tintin
includes Imager member Robert Bridson in its credits for R&D work done at
Weta Digital during his recent stay in New Zealand.
October 2011:
Imager welcomes new postdoc
Kerem Altun
(with Karon MacLean). Kerem comes to us from Bilkent Unversity in
Turkey.
more...
September 2011:
Robert Bridson is featured in an
FXGuide article
on the science of fluid simulation for graphics.
September 2011:
Ph.D. student Sang Hoon Yeo and Professor Dinesh K. Pai, in
collaboration with biologists in the US, shed new light on a long
standing problem in biology: how our muscles actually work.
more...
August 2011:
Sketching Haptics: a workshop by Camille Moussette (Umeå Institute of Design) with Karon MacLean.
more...
August 2011:
Rise of the Planet of the Apes includes Robert Bridson in the credits for R&D work from his recent stay at Weta Digital in New Zealand.
August 2011:
The
Symposium on Computer Animation 2011 (co-chaired by Michiel van de Panne and Robert Bridson) was held at UBC at the start of August, just before SIGGRAPH.
July 2011:
The
IEEE Haptics Symposium (co-chaired by Karon MacLean) in Vancouver, March 2012, released its first Call for Submissions.
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