CineGrid Workshop 2012 - Speaker Information

CineGrid International Workshop Attendee List – December 10-12, 2012 1

CineGrid International Workshop 2012 Speaker Information

Workshop organized by Pacific Interface, Inc. Sponsored by CineGrid, a non-profit organization headquartered in California Hosted by the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Location: Calit2 Auditorium, 1st Floor, Atkinson Hall, UCSD, La Jolla, California Date: December 10-12, 2012

Tracy CORNISH Adjunct Professor in Digital Cinema and New Media University of California, San Diego [email protected]

Tracy Cornish is an Australian artist and research scholar who is an adjunct professor in digital cinema and new media at the University of California, San Diego. Her work explores complex systems in information culture by interweaving theoretical critique and digital media into an experimental visual arts practice. Her recent artwork employs experimental digital cinema, mixed reality, augmented reality and alternate reality games as platforms for exploring new forms of audience interaction, intervention and participatory culture. Current research interests focus on experimental approaches to next-generation digital cinema production and remote collaboration via telepresence.

Cornish’s work has been exhibited in Australia, the United States and Europe. Recent exhibitions include Moon Lust, Chicago; Transmediale 2012, Berlin; Out of the Box, San Francisco; and Local Art, San Diego. She graduated with a doctorate of philosophy by research in visual art.

François-Pierre CLOUET Field Application Engineer intoPIX [email protected]

At intoPIX, Clouet is a field application engineer who supports and delivers JPEG2000 compression encoder and decoder software to be integrated into programmable devices (FPGAs). Prior to that he worked as a hardware design engineer at CSIE, a French-based consulting company. He performed FPGA-based research and development in such areas as aerospace/defense, oil exploration and image processing. Before that he spent a year as a junior lecturer and researcher at the French South African Institute in Electronics (FSATIE) at the Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa, teaching electronics, imaging processing and VHDL.

He received his electrical engineering diploma from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electronique et Radioélectricité (ENSERG), Grenoble, France. He is a graduate of the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, and was also an exchange student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.


Michelle DANIELS Graduate Student Researcher CalIT2/UCSD Sonic Arts R&D [email protected]

After graduating in 2003 from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in music, science and technology, Daniels spent four years working in industry researching and developing new technologies for low bit-rate audio and image coding and music applications for mobile phones. In 2009, she received her master’s degree in computer music from UCSD. A member of the Sonic Arts R&D team at Calit2, her research interests include digital signal processing and machine learning for musical applications.

Cees de LAAT Professor, Informatics Institute University of Amsterdam [email protected]

As chair of the System and Network Engineering Research Group at the University of Amsterdam, Prof. dr. ir. Cees de Laat researches optical/switched networking for Internet transport of massive amounts of data in eScience applications, Semantic Web description language for networks and connected resources, cross-organization authorization architectures, and security/privacy systems for distributed environments.

De Laat collaborates in such European Union projects as CN3, Geyser, NOVI and ENVRI. He also serves in the Open Grid Forum as a board member. Additionally, he is chair of GridForum.nl/ and an advisory board member of ISOC.nl/. De Laat is co-founder and the organizer of several of the past meetings of the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF). He is one of the founding members of CineGrid and chairs the CineGrid Amsterdam steering group. Web address: http://www.science.uva.nl/~delaat/.

Thomas A. DeFANTI Research Scientist, CalIT2, University of California, San Diego Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago [email protected]

Thomas A. DeFanti, Ph.D., has been an internationally recognized expert in computer graphics since the early 1970s. He is currently the principal investigator of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) International Research Network Connections Program’s TransLight/StarLight project.

DeFanti is the recipient of the 1988 ACM Outstanding Contribution Award and was appointed an ACM Fellow in 1994. He shares recognition––along with Electronic Visualization Laboratory Founding Director Daniel J. Sandin––for conceiving the CAVE virtual reality theater in 1991.

Striving for two decades to connect high-resolution visualization and virtual reality devices over long distances, he is a founding member of GLIF (Global Lambda Integrated Facility), a group that manages international switched wavelength networks for research and education.

Michael DESSEN Professor, Claire Trevor School of the Arts University of California Irvine [email protected]

Michael Dessen is a composer-improviser who performs on the slide trombone and computer. Active in a variety of contexts as leader or collaborator, he creates music for improvisers and engages new technologies of telepresence and digital networking. Dessen’s music has been acclaimed by critics in numerous jazz and contemporary music publications. He has recorded on such labels as Clean Feed,


Cuneiform, and Circumvention, and been supported by commissions from Chamber Music America and the Fromm Foundation. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the University of California, San Diego, his teachers include Yusef Lateef, George Lewis, and Anthony Davis. In 2006, he joined the Music Department faculty in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine, where he co-founded a new M.F.A. emphasis in Integrated Composition, Improvisation and Technology (ICIT).

Mark DRESSER Professor of Music University of California, San Diego Bass player, improviser, composer, interdisciplinary collaborator [email protected]

Mark Dresser is an internationally renowned musician who, since 2007, has been deeply involved in telematic music performance and education. At the core of his music is an artistic obsession and commitment to expanding the sonic, musical, and expressive possibilities of the contrabass. He has recorded over one hundred thirty CDs and has collaborated with some of the strongest personalities in contemporary music including Anthony Braxton, Ray Anderson, Jane Ira Bloom, Tim Berne, Anthony Davis, Dave Douglas, Osvaldo Golijov, Gerry Hemingway, Bob Osertag, Joe Lovano, Roger Reynolds, Henry Threadgill, Dawn Upshaw, John Zorn. Web address: www.mark-dresser.com/.

Cosmin DUMITRU Ph.D. student, System and Network Engineering Group University of Amsterdam [email protected]

Cosmin Dumitru is a Ph.D. student at University of Amsterdam’s System and Network Engineering Group. In 2010, he received his master’s degree in system and network engineering at the same university with cum laude distinction. Dumitru's research is focused on high-performance networking and distribution of high-definition media.

Steve ELLISON System Applications Director, Digital Products Meyer Sound Laboratories [email protected]

Ellison has played an integral role in helping a number of venues integrate large-scale surround sound and active acoustic systems into their facilities. He helped develop Meyer Sound's Constellation Acoustic System. In 1992, he founded LCS Audio, a maker of sophisticated multichannel digital audio mixing and processing products. He was the designer of the unique SpaceMap algorithm that has been incorporated into several products to allow multichannel panning of a number of simultaneous sound sources to arbitrary loudspeaker arrangements. Ellison has published articles and presented papers about surround sound mixing and active acoustic systems at the Acoustical Society of America, the Institute of Acoustics' Reproduced Sound conference in the UK, Tonmeister in Germany, the International Symposium on Room Acoustics, and the Audio Engineering Society, and others.

Joachim GOSSMANN Post-Doctoral researcher CalIT2/UCSD Sonic Arts R&D [email protected]

Joachim Gossmann has been working in the field of audio in the context of electronic music, virtual reality,


media art, auditory data display and music production for 15 years at various German and international institutions of research and culture. From 2001 to 2003, he participated in the virtual environments workgroup at Fraunhofer IMK in Bonn. From 2003 to 2006, he oversaw studio production at the Center for Arts and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany where he collaborated in design, implementation and content production for the Klangdom concert loudspeaker environment as well as its software, Zirkonium.

He holds a Tonmeister degree from UdK Berlin, an M.F.A. in composition for new media from the Californian Institute of the Arts, and a Ph.D. in computer music from UC San Diego.

Kevin GROSS Media Network Consultant [email protected]

Kevin Gross conceived and developed CobraNet for the transport of real-time, high-quality audio over Ethernet networks. He is a contributing member of the IEEE 802.1 Audio/Video Bridging (AVB) standards effort. In 2006, he was awarded an Audio Engineering Society (AES) fellowship for his contributions to digital audio networking. Gross initiated and currently is leading an AES interoperability standardization effort for high-performance IP media networking. Before audio networking, Gross helped to develop an Oscar award-winning digital audio recording and editing system. He is now an independent engineering consultant to AV equipment manufacturers and systems designers.

Ben HACKBARTH Ph.D. candidate in music composition University of California, San Diego [email protected]

Ben Hackbarth is a composer and technologist, who writes music for instruments and electronic sound. His compositions have been performed around the world by contemporary music ensembles such as the Arditti String Quartet, Ensemble InterContemporain, Ensemble SurPlus, the Collage New Music Ensemble, and the Wet Ink Ensemble. Hackbarth’s music can be heard on CD releases from SEAMUS and Carrier Records. Hackbarth has twice been named composer in research at IRCAM in Paris. While there, he collaborated with researchers to write software for concatenative synthesis, which uses a sound's spectral characteristics to search large databases for similar sonic gestures.

Paul J. HEARTY Vice President, Technology Standards Office Sony Electronics Inc. [email protected]

Dr. Paul Hearty received his doctorate in psychology (cognitive neuroscience) from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada in 1981. He has worked nearly 30 years in fields relating to television and cinema, holding senior positions in government and industry in Canada and the United States.

Prior to Sony, he was associate dean of the faculty of Communication and Design at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada and director of the Rogers Communications Centre, a major facility for instruction and research in advanced media at Ryerson. From 1987 to 1995, he was a leader in the development and standardization of the digital HDTV system currently deployed in North America and elsewhere. For this work, he was awarded an Emmy and was recognized for his contributions to four other Emmy awards.

Hearty has actively contributed to national and international standards for production and program exchange, as well as for broadcast, satellite, and cable transmission. He has served as chair of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Digital Video Subcommittee, which is


responsible for digital cable standards in North America, since its inception in 1996. He is the author of numerous publications and presentations. He is on the board of CineGrid, a consortium of laboratories worldwide that he helped found, and has served on the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Board of Editors since 1995. Hearty is a SMPTE Fellow and has served as SMPTE editorial vice president, and has been a member of the SMPTE Executive Committee and the SMPTE Board since 2009.

Hearty is a member of the ANSI-managed Council for the US National Committee for the Inter-national Electrotechnical Commission, a United Nations-accredited body, and of the Corporate Advisory Group of the IEEE Standards Association. He has been elected to the boards of ANSI and of the IEEE Standards Association.

Allison HEATH Research Scientist Laboratory for Advanced Computing University of Chicago [email protected]

Dr. Allison Heath is a research scientist currently focusing on cloud computing infrastructure for data intensive science, including developing tools for high-speed data transport. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in computer science from Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a Google Anita Borg Scholarship and a NIH Keck Center Fellowship in Large Scale Data Sets. She was also a Shell Center for Sustainability Fellow. Her graduate research focused on developing algorithms for computational problems in structural and systems biology.

Laurin HERR President Pacific Interface, Inc. [email protected]

Laurin Herr is founder and president of Pacific Interface, an international consulting company that facilitates research and business between Japan, America and Europe. For more than 30 years, Pacific Interface has been analyzing trends in media, computing, video/graphics, displays and networking applications on behalf of clients wishing to explore new markets. In addition to strategic consulting and business development services, Pacific Interface provides a wide range of specialized services to organize and manage research collaborations, technical symposia, technology showcases, and media events. Herr is one of the co-founders of CineGrid, a non-profit international interdisciplinary community focused on the research, development, and demonstration of networked collaborative tools to enable the production, use, preservation and exchange of very-high-quality digital media over photonic networks. From 1992 to 2004, concurrent with his activities at Pacific Interface, Herr also held senior management positions at several Silicon Valley digital media technology companies, including SuperMac, Radius, Truevision and Pinnacle Systems. He has also worked extensively as an independent video producer/director. From 1982 to 1992, he was the official liaison to Japan for ACM SIGGRAPH. From 2001 to the present, he has served as an advisory member of the Digital Cinema Consortium of Japan. After receiving his bachelor of arts degree from Cornell University, Herr studied Japanese intensively in the U.S. and Japan, and pursued additional graduate studies at Cornell and at Sophia University in Tokyo. He holds a fifth-degree black belt in the martial art, aikido.


Timothy HUBER Cinematographer, editor and colorist [email protected]

Timothy Huber first began consulting for Silicon Valley technology companies in 2007. His mission is to enhance the media and entertainment industry's ability to astonish, amaze, entertain and inform an insatiable global media appetite by morphing science projects into supportable, shippable solutions.

Rob HUMMEL President, Group 47, Inc. [email protected]

Hummel is currently the president of Group 47, which was formed to acquire and improve upon the technology behind DOTS––the advanced digital archival storage media originally developed by Eastman Kodak. His career has revolved around cinematography, film formats, film restoration, post-production, visual effects and stereoscopic 3D. His film restoration work includes oversight of Gone With the Wind and Wizard of Oz. He has held senior positions at Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Bros., Sony, and Technicolor.

Hummel sits on the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Technology Council, and has served as the chair of the Public Programs Committee. He has hosted several programs at the Academy on film formats, film technology, and 3D stereoscopic imaging. The editor of the 8th edition of the American Cinematographer Manual, he also authored most of its articles. Hummel is an honorary visiting professor at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology in Japan.

George JOBLOVE Consultant [email protected]

George Joblove is a Los Angeles-based digital media technology executive and consultant who, throughout his career, has played key and pioneering roles in the development and application of digital technology to the entertainment industry. His emphasis has been on digital imaging for motion pictures and television. Joblove served for three years as executive vice president of advanced technology at Sony Pictures Entertainment, where he focused on facilitating the application of digital asset management, 4K, and 3-D across production, post-production, and distribution. Previously, he was for ten years at Imageworks, Sony Pictures’ visual-effects and animation unit, where he served as chief technology officer.

Prior affiliations include Warner Bros., where he was in the visual-effects unit, and Industrial Light & Magic, where he co-founded and led the team that pioneered the use of computers to create visual effects for feature films, including such milestones as The Abyss, Terminator 2, and Jurassic Park. Joblove received a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award in 1994 and has two patents pending in the field of 3D photography and cinematography. Joblove is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and co-chairman of its Science and Technology Council. He is also a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and the Visual Effects Society, as well as an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers. He holds a B.S. in computer science and an M.S. in computer graphics, both from Cornell University.


Ellen JUHLIN Digital Products Analyst Meyer Sound Laboratories [email protected]

Ellen Juhlin has been a sound designer for ten years, specializing in interactive audio. She was one of the first to graduate from Carnegie Mellon University with a focus in sound design, and has worked at a variety of live entertainment venues around the country, including Walt Disney World in Orlando, South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, and the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh. In recent years, she has been actively involved in AVnu Alliance, contributing to the Marketing Working Group and evangelizing audio video bridging (AVB) network solutions. At Meyer Sound, she defines product and user interface requirements based on user research, and has also created custom touch-screen interfaces for unique applications.

Kunitake KANEKO Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology Keio University [email protected]

Dr. Kaneko attended undergraduate school at the University of Tokyo, where he also received his M.S. from the Graduate School of Engineering, and then his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, in 2006. He joined Keio University in that year, and has been working for the Research Institute for Digital Media and Content. In 2012, he became an assistant professor in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio. His main research area is application-oriented networking, especially for high-quality media applications such as digital cinema and digital museums. He is also interested in next-generation network architecture.

Michael KARAGOSIAN President MKPE Consulting LLC [email protected]

Michael Karagosian is president of MKPE Consulting LLC, a Los Angeles-based consultancy for business development in digital cinema. He is a 30-year veteran of the cinema industry and has been active in digital cinema for the past 12 years. Karagosian’s recent activities include the negotiation of digital cinema deployment agreements for South America, the Philippines and Ireland. He consulted to the National Association of Theatre Owners for 11 years in its conversion to digital cinema, was an advisor to the UK Film Council for the Digital Screen Network, and also was on the board of directors of In-Three, which works in 2D to 3D conversion, stereoscopic 3D content, among other specialties. In the late 70's and early 80's, Karagosian led the development of cinema and studio products at Dolby Laboratories. He has been a chairman in the SMPTE standards effort since its inception, and today co-chairs the High Frame Rates Study Group in the Digital Cinema Technology Committee.

John KELLOGG Senior Director, Corporate Strategy and Development DTS [email protected]

Prior to his joining DTS, Kellogg was executive director of corporate strategy for SRS Labs, which he joined in 2011 to work on reinventing new audio paradigms and to be part of the team developing MDA, an open object audio platform and set of new spatial rendering techniques for audio. DTS acquired SRS Labs this year.


Kellogg worked at Dolby Laboratories for more than 20 year, first, as director of marketing for Dolby¹s Licensing group, and in recent years, as a senior technology strategist representing the company's interests in the entertainment industry. Though he had his hand in cinema audio, his primary focus was with non-theatrical segments of film studios and the music industry for adoption of Dolby's audio technology portfolio. Since the late 1980s, Kellogg has been a part of the development and evangelism of home theater, Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital, DVD, and 5.1 surround formats for DVD Audio. Later, he was focused on HD formats, such as HD DVD, BluRay, and such emerging technologies as 3D in the home, and direct digital distribution of movies and music online.

John was also one of original 5.1 surround music pioneers, producing the first 5.1 music mixes for the introduction of Dolby Digital in 1992. He has guided many artists, producers and labels to the art of multichannel music and has produced a number of highly regarded and best-selling DVD Audio releases for Warner Music Group, Arista and BMG. His producer’s credits include albums for such artists as Chicago; Emerson, Lake and Palmer; Deep Purple; and Foreigner, whose DVD Audio release entitled 4 is one of the best-selling DVD Audio releases of all time.

He continues his work on 5.1 music releases with independent artists from around the world. In 2005, he conceived and began to develop Jhana Music Group, an independent, artist friendly music label that produces and delivers 5.1 surround music as downloads and streaming to various devices, a project he continues to work on today.

Masahiko KITAMURA Visiting Scholar CalIT2, University of California, San Diego [email protected]

Masahiko Kitamura received his M.S. in interdisciplinary information studies from the University of Tokyo and in 2007 joined NTT Network Innovation Labs. His focus is on high-definition video transmission over the Internet and it’s networking. During the past year, he has been a visiting scholar at UCSD/Calit2. Kitamura’s current research investigates how networked environments function as collaborative workspaces between people in remote sites.

Michal KRSEK Senior Researcher CESNET [email protected]

Krsek’s main research activities relate to the Czech Republic’s CESNET, including high-speed networks and suitable protocols, network interconnection, content delivery networks, IPv6, multimedia transfers over IP networks and domain name system developments, such as eNum and DNSSEC. He is the author of number of international research papers and participates in various network development groups, including IETF, RIPE (European IP Networks) and the Internet Society (ISOC). Krsek is the founder of PragueMediaNet, a network and applications infrastructure that interconnects academic, research, and industrial partners in media production and post-production. Krsek graduated from the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of West Bohemia.


Steve LAMPEN Multimedia Technology Manager & Product Line Manager, Entertainment Products Belden [email protected] Steve Lampen has worked for Belden for 21 years and is currently multimedia technology manager and also, the produce line manager for entertainment products. Prior to his current employment, Lampen had an extensive career in radio broadcast engineering and installation, film production and electronic distribution. He holds a FCC Lifetime General (formerly, a First Class FCC License), and is a SBE Certified- Broadcast Radio Engineer. On the data side, Lampen is a BICSI Registered Communication Distribution Designer. In 2010, he was named Educator of the Year by the National System Contractors Association, and in 2011, was named Educator of the Year by the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE). His book The Audio-Video Cable Installer’s Pocket Guide is published by McGraw-Hill. His column, Wired for Sound, appears in the Radio World online magazine. Louise R. LEDEEN Global Industry Lead Media and Entertainment Business Sector with IBM NetApp, Inc. [email protected]

Louise Ledeen’s expertise is applying technology to the creative process. Her foundational work as a pioneering video artist and curator of technology-based art has led to her more recent endeavors at NetApp and SGI including the development of groundbreaking tools and processes for digital content creation, media management, migration, restoration and archiving.

At NetApp since 2007, Ledeen is responsible for the global media and entertainment business sector with IBM. Before that she was at Silicon Graphics (SGI) for 12 years, pioneering the development of products and data management solutions for HD content creation, and innovations for realtime 2K scanning and 4K digital intermediate workflow. Ledeen is a member of the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE), the Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA), Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and CineGrid.

Jason LEIGH Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory Professor, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago [email protected] Jason Leigh, Ph.D., is best known for such projects as the OptIPuter, GeoWall, CoreWall, LambaVision, Tele-Immersion, and Reliable Blast UDP. His research for the past ten years has focused on Cyber- Commons, ultra-resolution display-rich collaboration environments amplified by high-performance computing and networking.

Leigh’s research focus is human augmentics, which entails the research and development of technologies for expanding the capabilities and characteristics of human beings. His work in life-like avatars has been featured on Popular Science’s FUTURE OF television program, and he has been profiled on NOVA’s ScienceNOW. Leigh also teaches courses in video game design and development, and software design.


Guide LEMOS de SOUZA Filho Professor, Department of Computer Science Leader, Digital Video Advanced Application Lab (Lavid) Federal University of the Paraiba, Brazil [email protected]

In addition to his above-mentioned affiliations, Guido Lemos de Souza Filho is a director of the Informatics Center at his university. He is member of the Digital Television Brazilian System Forum Board, which is in charge of the definition of the Brazilian Digital TV standards. Lemos has worked as one of the designers of Ginga Middleware, which was adopted as a standard by the ITU and is used in the Brazilian digital TV System and the DTV systems of 12 countries at Latin America and Africa. At Lavid, he works on research in distributed multimedia systems, digital television, digital cinema and accessibility. He is also the research leader in the Project of Advanced Visualization at RNP, Brazilian Academic Networks.

He received a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil, in 1988 and a M.Sc., in 1991. In 1997, he received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Professor Lemos is also a member of the Brazilian Computer Society and the ACM.

Brian LONG Engineer Skywalker Sound, Lucasfilm Ltd. [email protected]

With 15 years of experience working in professional audio, Long has diverse and extensive knowledge regarding the design and implementation of sound reinforcement and playback systems for all types of scenarios ranging from single speaker events to massive show spectaculars and multi-channel media presentations.

Long holds a master of fine arts degree from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, where he specialized in post-production audio and worked on advanced multi-channel audio concepts.

Andy MALTZ Director, Science and Technology Council Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) [email protected]

Since 2003, as the first director of the Academy’s reconstituted Science & Technology Council, Maltz has been responsible for developing and implementing its operational plan, and administering the Council’s day-to-day operations. Previously, Maltz was CEO of Avica Technology Corp., where he led the first worldwide commercial deployment of digital cinema servers, drove the development of key technologies for digital cinema, and was heavily involved with the digital releases of many major motion pictures in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He also has served as a consultant to such companies as Sharp Electronics and Microsoft, where he spearheaded the development of the Advanced Authoring Format, a widely adopted professional media interchange format. Maltz worked as the executive vice president of operations and engineering for nonlinear editing pioneer Ediflex Digital Systems.

Maltz serves on the U. S. National Archives’ public advisory committee for electronic records archives, is an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers, and is a fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, where he serves on several engineering committees and the SMPTE Journal Board of Editors. He received his B.S.E.E. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.


Todd MARGOLIS Assistant Project Scientist CalIT2, University of California, San Diego [email protected]

Todd Margolis is a trans-media producer of immersive artworks and systems. Currently, he is developing advanced remote collaboration environments at Calit2 at UCSD. He also serves on the boards of several non-profit and academic organizations in the US and UK that focus on immersive and interactive art and technology. Margolis’s current research investigates social and cultural relationships to emerging media. His practice draws on over a decade of experience creating tele-collaborative immersive and interactive artworks and systems. He has published numerous papers on mixed-reality artworks and systems, and lectured on new media both nationally and internationally. His work has been shown in museums, festivals and galleries around the world.

Ron MARTIN Vice President, 3D Innovation Center Panasonic Hollywood Lab [email protected]

Marin has more than 30 years of experience in entertainment technologies in the field of image processing for film and television. Prior to his position with Panasonic, Ron served as vice president of engineering and operations at Universal Studios Hollywood, and then as vice president of new technology development at Deluxe Digital Studios. He was instrumental in the development and deployment of such technologies as digital Telecine mastering, film scanning, DVD, Blu-ray, digital cinema, and 3D. Martin currently lives at the base of the Rocky Mountains in southwest Colorado.

Jiří MATELA Ph.D. candidate Masaryk University [email protected]

Jiří Matela received his bachelor of science and master of science degrees in applied informatics from Masaryk University (MU) in Brno, Czech Republic in 2007 and 2009. He is currently working toward a Ph.D. degree at Masaryk University, focusing on parallel image compressions, re-formulations of image processing and compression algorithms for massively parallel GPU architectures and domain specific languages. He works at the Faculty of Informatics MU in the Laboratory of Advanced Networking Technologies, is a researcher with CESNET and also works as an image processing specialist in the Department of Pathology at MU.

In 2008, he worked as a visiting researcher at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory. His research interests include multimedia, high-speed networks, image processing and compression, high-performance computing and domain specific languages. Matela has been investigator of several research and development projects (e.g., MSM6383917201, MSM0021622419, GD102/09/H042) and recently, together with his team, he received a Best Open-Source Software Award from the ACM Multimedia Special Interest Group.

J.P. McLEOD Disc Jockey/Mash-Up Artist University of California, San Diego [email protected]

McLeod indicates that he is a lover of music and film, and believes the two go perfectly together. As the DJ world and film industry are transitioning completely to digital, his current work involves a mash-up of the two. Specifically, he uses vinyl-turntables with digital software and blend older film media with current


digital video technology. He calls it “old school feel, with new school flavor.” While DJ’ing, McLeod seeks to create a custom and personalized music experience: “You might cry, you might laugh, but you will definitely dance!” His aim is for an experience that is both uniquely technical and equally entertaining. McLeod says: “My mother is a physician, my father is a magician and I’m somewhere in between.”

Paul MELIS Visualization Consultant SARA [email protected]

Paul Melis is a visualization consultant at SARA, the Dutch national supercomputing center, which he joined in 2009. He works in such diverse areas as remote visualization, ultra-high resolution visualization and network streaming of visualizations over optical networks. Melis is also responsible for supporting and realizing projects in SARA's new visualization and collaboration room, the Collaboratorium. After finishing his computer science studies, he worked at several Dutch universities on topics in virtual reality, scientific visualization and pre-visualization He is an active member of the Dutch Cinegrid.Amsterdam and PRACE-2IP projects.

Yamato MIYASHITA Student in Information and Computer Science Keio University [email protected]

Yamato Miyashita attends undergraduate school at Keio University. He is majoring in information and computer science, and his research topic is distributed file organizing system.

Takayuki NAKACHI Senior Research Engineer Media Processing Systems Research Group NTT Network Innovation Laboratories [email protected]

Takayuki Nakachi received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Keio University, Japan in 1997. Since he joined NTT Laboratories in that year, he has been engaged in research on Super High Definition (SHD) image- and video-coding, especially in the areas of lossless and scalable coding. His current research interests include distributed source coding, audio-visual communications, super resolution and secure image processing. From 2006 to 2007, he was a visiting scientist at Stanford University. He received the 26th TELECOM System Technology Award and the 6th Best Paper Award from the Journal of Signal Processing. He served as an associate editor of IEICE Transaction Fundamentals and Fundamentals Review from 2005 to 2010 and again, from 2009 to 2011. He is a member of IEICE and IEEE.

Jean-François NIVART Chief Executive Officer Image Matters [email protected]

Jean-François Nivart has more than 20 years of experience exploring his passion for images, technology and entrepreneurship. He is a specialist in product design and marketing, with extensive experience in digital cinema and broadcasting. His positions have ranged from product manager, chief technology officer, and chief executive office to board member in such companies as EVS, intoPIX, FlyingCam and XDC (now re-branded as dcinex). Currently, he is the chief executive officer at Image Matters, a company that develops high-performance hardware and software tools for extreme imaging applications.


Nivart earned a M.B.A. from the Louvain School of Management, in Belgium (2007), and a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Liege, in Belgium (1990).

Devin OHARA Graduate Student Keio University, Graduate School of Media Design (KMD) [email protected]

Devin Ohara is a second year master’s degree student at Keio University’s Graduate School of Media Design (KMD). His research focuses on Computer Supported Collaborative Works (CSCW), with an emphasis on documentary filmmaking. He has published a short paper on visual story boarding for the 9th Annual CVMP, as well as presented at multiple international conferences, including EuroITV 2012 and CineGrid@TIFF 2012 (Tokyo International Film Festival). He has been collaborating with UCSD from January 2012 on places+perspectives, a technology-assisted experiment on digital storyboarding and collaborative storytelling, as well as the Growing Documentary project, since June 2011

Peter OTTO Director, CalIT2/UCSD Sonic Arts R&D Director, Music Technology, Department of Music University of California, San Diego [email protected]

Peter Otto is schooled in the language and aesthetics of media expression, and equally accomplished in advanced hardware/software design and engineering, including instrumentation and facilities design, systems and networking applications, and a wide array of media technology research and development areas. Classically trained in musical performance and composition, he completed his graduate work at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles in 1984, and continued there on the faculty for several years. He currently holds appointments at UCSD as technology director/faculty in music and as head of research and development in the Sonic Arts initiative at UCSD's Calit2. As a hardware designer, he invented the first widely available digital audio workstation control surface (Waveframe's Contact MIDI Panel), designed the hardware-based spatial audio system TRAILS, and is currently designing audio systems for Calit2 (StarCave, HiperWall and other systems). Audio facilities credits include Calit2's Spatial Audio Lab (Spatlab) and collaborative designs for Calit2's Black Box and Digital Cinema Theatres, and new systems and studios at UCSD Music's Prebys Music Center (Experimental Theatre and other systems). Other design work includes advanced research projects in high-definition multi-channel audio streaming and production systems, most notably for CineGrid.

In software design, Otto has written software for diverse applications in multi-channel and spatial audio, including binaural and multi-channel sound design environments and utilities, and a variety of spatial audio imaging packages.

Robert PATTERSON Research Artist NCSA Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) [email protected] For more twenty years, Robert Patterson has collaborated with scientists and technologists to produce

scientific visualizations for informal science education. He has choreographed and art directed visualizations that have appeared on the program NOVA, on the Discovery Channel, in IMAX 3D and in digital full-dome planetarium productions. Patterson co-created Virtual Director, a virtual computer graphics tool that enables voice- and gesture-controlled navigation and camera choreography for collaborative design of visualizations. He has used Virtual Director and other technologies in numerous collaborations to create cinematic presentations of scientific data in astrophysics, astronomy, networking,


atmospheric science, and oceanography. These presentations have made use of stereoscopic 3D and ultra-high-resolution display formats to inspire broad-based public audiences. Recent AVL productions include

creating scenes for IMAX Hubble 3D, The Tree of Life feature film and the Dynamic Earth full-dome show.

Sander PHIPPS Senior Product Manager, Professional Display Division Sony Electronics [email protected]

Sander Phipps has been in the professional electronics and broadcast television industries for 25 years, most of them with the Sony Corporation, where he currently works in product development of Sony’s professional displays. He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering.

Dana PLEPYS Associate Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) University of Illinois at Chicago Director and Curator, CineGrid Exchange [email protected]

Dana Plepys is the director and curator of the CineGrid Exchange, a distributed digital media repository supporting CineGrid member-driven testbeds for research and experimentation in digital media asset management, distribution and preservation applications.

Plepys is also an associate director with the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago responsible for unit research administration and business affairs. Her contribution to EVL also includes project management for technology transfer activities to industry and affiliated laboratories, oversight for the development of tools, techniques, and systems for advanced visualization applications, and media production documenting EVL's research.

Since 1993, Plepys has been editor of the SIGGRAPH Video Review (SVR), one of the world’s most widely circulated and comprehensive video-based publications showcasing the latest concepts in computer graphics and interactive techniques. She has produced over 175 issues of the SVR, and is actively involved in the preservation of the SIGGRAPH computer graphics historical archive.

Ramesh RAO Director, Calit2 University of California, San Diego [email protected]

In addition to directing Calit2/UCSD, Rao is involved on a day-to-day basis with a wide variety of interdisciplinary and collaborative research initiatives, including leading several major projects at Calit2. He is currently engaged in numerous projects to bridge emerging technologies with medicine and healthcare and investigating the power of utilizing information technologies to enhance, even transform, healthcare resources, knowledge bases, and outcomes. In 2004, he was appointed the first holder of the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Telecommunications and Information Technologies in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UCS, where he has been a faculty member since 1984. Rao has been lead investigator on dozens of major federal-, state-, foundation-, defense-, and industry-funded grants including––among others––projects with the National Institute of Health relating to emergency medical response, and the National Science Foundation concerning disaster preparedness and cognitive networking. He has authored more than 230 peer-reviewed technical papers on a wide range of research topics in wireless communications including architectures, protocols, performance analysis of


computer and communication networks, adaptive systems, energy-efficient communications, disaster management applications and health-related applications, among others.

Rao has twice been a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society and is a senior fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST). Rao is also a board or task force member for hospitals and health authorities in India and the United Arab Emirates. He also serves as a panelist on the Innovation Initiative Blue Ribbon Panel of the Alliance Healthcare Foundation Board, and is a member of the UC San Diego Health System Advisory Board. Further, Rao is on the advisory council to the California Telehealth Network and of the Education Task Force of the San Diego Foundation Regional Vision Council. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors of CommNexus San Diego: A Network of Communications Companies. For his leadership in wireless communications, Rao was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and in 2011, received a Casa Familiar Abrazo Award. He received a 2010 Professional Gordon Engineering Leadership Award from the Bernard and Sophia Gordon Engineering Leadership Center, UCSD. Rao earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1984, and M.S. in 1982, both from the University of Maryland, College Park. He earned his undergraduate B.E. degree with honors in electronics and communications in 1980 from the Regional Engineering College of the University of Madras in Tiruchirappalli, India.

Luc REMAMBOT Research Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) [email protected]

Luc Renambot received a PhD at the University of Rennes in France, conducting research on parallel rendering algorithms for illumination simulation. He then held a Post-doctoral position at the Free University of Amsterdam, where he worked on bringing education and scientific visualization to virtual-reality environments. Since 2003, he has been at UIC/EVL, first as a Post-doc and now as a Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science, where his research topics include high-resolution displays, computer graphics, parallel computing, and high-speed networking.

Harry SCHREURS Head of Department, IMVFX (Interactive Media /Visual Effects) NFTA, the Netherlands Film and Television Academy [email protected]

Schreurs has worked as a television designer and visual art director in television for nearly 30 years, and was an early pioneer in virtual reality productions. He worked as a 3D designer/VFX supervisor and director at the N.O.B. (the Dutch Broadcasting Cooperation) in Hilversum, Holland, with assignments that were mainly large-scale experimental TV/new media productions in the fields of art, opera, music and theatre.

Since 1999 he has been freelance virtual designer/supervisor of several (inter)national TV-, film- and 3D-art productions. He has also done concept development for new media and television formats. Since 2005, he has been the head of department at IMVFX (Interactive Media /Visual Effects) at the NFTA, the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam.

Schreurs is a seven-time gold award winner at the Broadcast Designers Association, a U.S.-based international festival for TV design. Schreurs received his training at the Atheneum in Roermond, The Netherlands. He also studied graphic design at the Art Academy Den Bosch; and sonology at the Conservatory Utrecht.


Zachary SELDESS Senior Development Engineer UCSD/Calit2 Sonic Arts R&D [email protected]

Zachary Seldess is a media artist, composer, teacher, and programmer. As a composer and programmer, Seldess has collaborated with artists in many mediums including theater, dance, film, and poetry. He has presented interactive installations at Gallery Aferro in Newark, N.J.; ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie) in Karlsruhe Germany; and SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 in Yokohama, Japan. His work has been published or presented in Antennae, NIME 2007 and 2011, and at the Chamber Music America National Conference 2009, SIGGRAPH 2011, and ICAD 2011. Seldess currently works as senior development engineer at Calit2’s Sonic Arts R&D group at UCSD. Previously, he worked as audio systems coordinator and Developer at the Visualization Lab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). His responsibilities included operational oversight and independent research on the large multi-channel networked audio systems throughout the lab, as well as sonification and other audio-centric collaborative work with university faculty, researchers, and students.

In 2005, Seldess founded the Intermedia Arts Group, a collective committed to the support and performance of new and interactive media artwork within the CUNY artistic community. He is co-founder and co-director of the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. Seldess is a candidate for the Ph.D. in music composition (ABD) at the Graduate Center CUNY, where his primary teachers were Amnon Wolman and Morton Subotnick. He received a B.Mus. in composition and classical guitar and an M.Mus in classical guitar from Northwestern University, studying composition with Alan Stout and Michael Pisaro, and guitar with Anne Waller.

Daisuke SHIRAI Research Engineer NTT Network Innovation Laboratories [email protected]

Shirai received his M.Eng. degree in computer science from Keio University, Japan. Since then, he has been researching super-high-definition (SHD) imaging systems and their transmission technology. He is currently involved in research and development of 4K image transmission systems. His research topics include image coding, media streaming technologies, and architecture of media distribution and exchange on networks.

Leon D. SILVERMAN General Manager, Digital Studio Walt Disney Studios [email protected]

Leon D. Silverman is General Manager, Digital Studio for the Walt Disney Studios where he oversees the Digital Studio Services team, which provides on-lot digital infrastructure, post production services and workflow expertise as part of Studio Operations. Silverman is currently focused on the construction of the newest addition to Disney’s on-lot portfolio - the Digital Studio Center. Scheduled to open in December 2012, the Digital Studio Center is a 26,000 square foot facility dedicated to digital content workflows, picture and sound editorial / design as well as globally connected creative collaboration. Prior to joining Disney, Silverman was President of LaserPacific Media Corporation, which was acquired by Eastman Kodak in 2003, where he additionally served as Director of Strategic Business Development, Entertainment Imaging Services and a Vice President of Entertainment Imaging for Kodak.


For over 30 years, Silverman has helped to introduce new post production technology, services and workflows to Hollywood’s creative and studio community. In 1989, he was recognized for his contributions to the creation of LaserPacific’s Electronic Laboratory, which received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development. He was also recognized in 1996 for his contributions to the development of LaserPacific's SuperComputer assembly process, which was again the recipient of an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development. Silverman is the President and a founder of the Hollywood Post Alliance, a broad-based industry trade association focused on the post production industry. He serves as a Governor - Hollywood Region of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers where he was named a Fellow of the Society in November of 2003. In addition, he is an Associate Member of the American Society of Cinematographers, and an Affiliate Member of the American Cinema Editors.

Alvy Ray SMITH [email protected]

Dr. Alvy Ray Smith co-founded two successful startups: Pixar and Altamira. Altamira was later sold to Microsoft, where Smith was the first Graphics Fellow. He has received two technical Academy Awards: one for the alpha channel concept, and the other for digital paint systems.

Smith was present at the beginning of computer graphics at Lucasfilm and the New York Institute of Technology. He invented, directed, originated, or was otherwise instrumental in the following developments: the first full-color paint program, HSV (aka HSB) color model, alpha channel and image sprites, the Genesis Demo in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the first Academy-Award winning computer-generated short Tin Toy, the first computer-generated film Toy Story, the Academy Award-winning Disney animation production system CAPS, and the Visible Human Project of the National Library of Medicine. Smith was also a star witness in a trial that successfully invalidated five patents that threatened Adobe Photoshop.

Smith has a Ph.D. from Stanford University and honorary doctorate from New Mexico State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, holds four patents, and has published widely in theoretical computer science and computer graphics. In retirement, he has been compiling his many technical memos on image computing into a book of theory, called the sprite theory. He also devotes time to the emerging art form of digital photography and to scholarly genealogy, to which he has contributed two award-winning books and several journal papers. Smith is Trustee Emeritus of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston, and a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists. Web address: alvyray.com/.

David STUMP, ASC Director of photography, visual effects director of photography, visual effects supervisor and stereographer davidstumpasc.mac.com

David Stump, ASC, has worked on numerous motion pictures and television productions as director of photography, as visual effects director of photography, as visual effects supervisor, and as stereographer (including both live-action work and 2D-to-3D conversion work). He has earned an Emmy Award, an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement, and an International Cinematographers Guild Award. His credits include such high-profile projects as The Last Stand, Immortals, Quantum of Solace, The Resident, Flight Plan, Fantastic Four, X-Men 1 & 2, Into the Blue, Red Riding Hood, Garfield, Batman Forever, Hollow Man, Men of Honor, Deep Blue Sea, Stuart Little, The Sphere, Contact, Batman & Robin, Mars Attacks, Executive Decision, Stargate, Free Willy, and What Love Is, among many others.

Stump is a member of AMPAS, ATAS, ASC, PGA, IATSE, SOC, SMPTE and numerous other industry associations. He is currently the SMPTE co-chair of a study group on the subject of high-frame rate for


digital cinema. He is also contributing on the subject of metadata to the AMPAS Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) file format project. Stump is a member of the Academy’s Science and Technology Council. He is currently writing a book on digital cinematography for the Focal Press.

In 2001, Stump was accepted for full membership into the American Society of Cinematographers, where he is currently chairman of the camera subcommittee of the ASC Technical Committee. Under his guidance, the combined efforts of the Producer’s Guild of America and the American Society of Cinematographers recently completed production of both the ASC / PGA Camera Assessment Series, and the ASC / PGA Image Control Assessment Series, side-by-side comparisons of virtually all of the high-end digital cinema cameras against film, run through industry standard 10-bit log and 16-bit ACES workflows, taken all the way out to film print and Digital Cinema Package.

Linda TADIC Executive Director Audiovisual Archive Network [email protected]

Linda Tadic has more than 25 years of experience working with and managing audio-visual, digital, and broadcasting collections. She is the executive director of Audiovisual Archive Network, an independent non-profit digital library and preservation service for historical sound and moving image collections. She also consults and lectures in the areas of digital asset management, audiovisual and digital preservation, and metadata. Past and current clients include the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, PBS NewsHour, WNET/Thirteen, Missouri History Museum, Dunhuang Academy (China), and Pearson Education. She is a co-author of the book Descriptive Metadata for Television: An End-to-End Introduction (Focal Press, 2006). Tadic was an adjunct professor in New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation graduate degree program from 2004 to 2011, teaching core courses in collection management and cataloging and metadata. Some of her past positions include manager of the digital library at Home Box Office (HBO), director of the media archives and Peabody Awards collection at the University of Georgia, and director of operations for ARTstor. She is a past president of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). Tadic received a master of library and information science at the University of California, Berkeley; a master of fine arts at UCSD; and a bachelor of fine arts at the California Institute of the Arts. Web address: www.archivenetwork.org/.

Brian TIERNEY Staff Scientist and Group Leader ESnet Advanced Network Technologies Group Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) [email protected]

In addition to Brian L. Tierney’s position at LBNL, he is also the principal investigator (PI) of ESnet's 100G Network Testbed Project. His research interests include high-performance networking and network protocols; distributed system performance monitoring and analysis; network tuning issues; and the application of distributed computing to problems in science and engineering. He has been the PI for several US Dept. of Energy research projects in network and Grid monitoring systems for data intensive distributed computing. Tierney has an M.S. in computer science from San Francisco State University, and a B.A. in physics from the University of Iowa. He has been at LBNL since 1990.


Natalie VAN OSDOL Vice President Pacific Interface, Inc. [email protected]

Van Osdol is vice president of Pacific Interface, an international consulting company that provides a wide range of specialized services to organize and manage research collaborations, technical symposia, technology showcases, and media events, in addition to strategic consulting and business development services, Van Osdol has managed many international events and conferences produced by Pacific Interface, including technical workshops, digital cinema symposia, technology demonstrations, exhibitions at international trade shows, press events and two museum exhibitions of computer graphics art in Japan. She produced the first U.S. and European demonstrations of 4K digital cinema and was associate producer of the Visualization: State of the Art series of video reports published by ACM/SIGGRAPH. In collaboration with NTT Corporation and the Whitney Museum of American Art, Van Osdol was the producer of The American Century: A Director’s Preview, the first multimedia showcase of fine art using super-high-definition (SHD) imaging technology.

Van Osdol is one of the co-founders of CineGrid, a non-profit international interdisciplinary community focused on the research, development, and demonstration of networked collaborative tools to enable the production, use, preservation and exchange of very-high-quality digital media over photonic networks. Van Osdol was also a founding partner of Compression Technologies, Inc., a company dedicated to the development and licensing of digital video compression tools. She attended Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, and UCLA.

Jeffrey D. WEEKLEY Research Associate Modeling Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES) Institute Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) [email protected]

Weekley is a 3D modeler, programmer and multimedia specialist. He works with NPS’s MOVES Institute, whose expertise includes combat modeling systems, training systems, virtual environments, augmented reality, web technologies, networks, and interoperability. MOVES also excels in agents and artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction and human factors, education and distance learning.

Takahiro YAMAGUCHI Senior Research Engineer NTT Network Innovation Laboratories [email protected]

Takahiro Yamaguchi received his B. Eng., M. Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, in 1991, 1993, and 1998, respectively. He joined NTT Optical Network Systems Laboratories, Yokosuka, Japan in 1998 and has been researching super high-definition image distribution systems. He is currently a senior research engineer in NTT Network Innovation Laboratories. Yamaguchi is a member of IEICE and ITE of Japan.

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CineGrid Workshop 2012 - Speaker Information