Wed 2/18 - John Reppy, University of Chicago, "The Manticore Project" 11 a.m. Tech L324

Wed, 2/18 - Lance J. William, Nokia Research Center, Hollywood, 4:00 p.m., Ford ITW  Auditorium

The Humanoid Touch
The next Distinguished Speaker in our venerable series is Lance J. Williams, a prominent graphics researcher who made major contributions to texture map prefiltering, shadow rendering algorithms, facial animation, and antialiasing techniques. Williams was one of the first people to recognize the potential of computer graphics to transform film and video making. In his talk, "The Humanoid Touch", Williams will describe the "human face project" undertaken at Walt Disney Studios some years ago, which was aimed at capturing the form and appearance of human faces in motion. Read more: [link]

Forbus to serve on governing board of Cognitive Science Society
The Cognitive Science Society congratulates the newest members of its Governing Board: Jeffrey Elman, Ken Forbus (in photo), Michael Spivey and Hedderik van Rijn.