“Today is a very exciting day for GENI,” Chip Elliott, Director of the GENI Project Office (GPO), said as he kicked off the 9th GENI Engineering Conference this morning in Washington, DC. Before a hotel ballroom packed with research faculty, students, and Federal agency representatives, the nation’s best young researchers in networking and distributed systems showed off the first-ever set of research experiments on GENI, illustrating the future of network science and engineering — and what it means for our society at large. The set of live demos — with participants from around the country — were simply incredible. As background, the Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI) Project was […]

Congratulations to Paul Debevec — Research Associate Professor & Associate Director of Graphics Research at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies — who won an Academy Award earlier this year for his breakthrough lighting technology work! The Academy of Motion Pictures honored Paul with a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award for “the design and engineering of the Light Stage capture devices and the image-based facial rendering system developed for character relighting in motion pictures.” Paul shared the honor with colleagues Tim Hawkins of LightStage, LLC, John Monos of Sony Pictures Imageworks, and Mark Sagar of WETA Digital. The light stage technology Paul and his team developed has […]