NYITer's: Where Are They Now?

Past News: NYIT Digital Campfire, of NYITer's reminiscing on July 22, 1998 in Orlando (at SIGGRAPH).

Former members of the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab:

• Rick Ace, Softport Systems, New York City
• Rebecca Allen, Design Dept., University of California, Los Angeles
• Michael Assante, New York, doing Windows instruction, system consultation, web site design
• Susan Van Baerle, Bloomington, MN (near Minneapolis), suevb@mn.rr.com
• Thad Beier, Hammerhead Productions, Studio City, CA
• Malcolm Blanchard, Pixar, Emeryville, CA
• Jules Bloomenthal, Unchained Geometry, Seattle
• Lori Bowden, AiYiYi Multimedia, Santa Rosa, CA
• Jeff Burton, Plug-In Systems, Boulder, CO
• Ed Catmull, Pixar, Emeryville, CA
• Mike Chou, Harvard Medical School, pursuing biotech PhD, formerly at PageUp in NYC
• Ephraim Cohen's HEXATRON (java hacks)
• Jim Clark, Healtheon, Santa Clara, CA; founder of Netscape Communications and Silicon Graphics . NY Times Magazine story about Clark.
• Steve DiPaola, San Francisco
• Bruce Doll, Images of Vision, Grand Rapids, MI, business programming, photography
• Tom Duff, Pixar, Emeryville, CA
• Royce Edwards (formerly Roy Edward Boehm), DjVu, scanned documents on the web
• Theresa Ellis, Hammerhead Productions, Studio City, CA, ellis@hammerhead.com
• Ed Emshwiller, d. 1990, was dean of School of Film/Video, California Inst. of the Arts
• David Geshwind, Digital Media Group, Ltd, New York City
• Andrew Glassner, fiction writer, Seattle (his old web page at Microsoft Research)
• Francis Glebas, was at Disney Feature Animation
• Hank Grebe, Pacific Data Images, business on the side: Media Spin Interactive. See Raspberry Fields, a story about a king and his pink castle
• Ned Greene, retired from Nvidia, designing organic-looking 3D forms, Bonny Doon, CA
• Rex Grignon, Pacific Data Images, supervising animator, Antz.
• Pat Hanrahan, CS Dept., Stanford University
• Kevin Hanson, Merrill Lynch, khanson@optonline.net
• Paul Heckbert, Nvidia, Pittsburgh PA
• Kevin Hunter, 3DO, klhunter@pacbell.net
• Paul Isaacs, Shout Interactive, San Francisco
• Lynn Lasalle-Klein, Cisco, llk@cisco.com
• Bruce Laskin, Air Media
• John P. Lewis, Centropolis, Culver City, CA
• Tom Longtin, Bennington, VT
• Dick Lundin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, "off the grid", unfortunately
• Cam Macmillan, San Diego, wrote this production horror story
• Leon Maurer
• Bil Maher (he now goes by William Maher), Radical Entertainment, Vancouver BC. don't miss his amusing "resume mucho".
• Robert McDermott (link broken), Center for High Performance Computing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
• Jane Nisselson, Virtual Beauty, New York City
• Peter Oppenheimer, Human Interface Technology Group, University of Washington, Seattle
• Michael O'Rourke, Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Dept, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
• Duane Palyka, (check out the animated resume), Film/Video/Animation Dept., Rochester Inst. of Tech., Rochester NY.
• Greg Panos, Long Beach, CA
• Fred Parke, Dept. of Architecture, Texas A&M University
• Bruce Perens, active in the Open Source movement, bruce@perens.com
• John Schlag, Novato, CA
• Jean-Louis Schulmann, Image Digitale, Paris
• Rick Schweizer, Tape House, NYC
• Tom Shermer, CS Dept, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
• Larry Shirley, CDKnet, NYC
• Alvy Ray Smith, formerly at Microsoft, Redmond, WA
• Sue Sparks, TDK, Port Washington, NY
• Garland Stern, Spitz Inc, Chadds Ford, PA?, and University of Delaware
• Jim St. Lawrence, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, etc
• David Sturman, Acclaim Entertainment, Glen Cove, NY, his job
• Robert Thornton, Jump Development Group & consulting, Pittsburgh, PA
• Ken Wesley, Industrial Light & Magic, San Rafael, CA
• Lance Williams, was at Disney Feature Animation
• James Wonder, American Institute of Physics, Long Island
• Paul Xander, Jr., somewhere in silicon valley
• Annette Zacharia Goldberg, since leaving CGL in 1985 has pursued a masters degree in Elementary Education; living in Setauket, New York with her family; teaching in the Three Village School District. e_metoday@yahoo.com

Pictures from NYIT CGL

list collected by Paul Heckbert, last update Feb. 2004
email me with additions/corrections