Invited Speakers

Opening Keynote

Naty Hoffman

When: Thursday, March 21 at 9:00am

Title: Outside the Echo Chamber: Learning from Other Disciplines, Industries, and Art Forms

Bio: Naty Hoffman is Vice President of Technology at 2K. Previously he was employed at Activision (working on graphics R&D for various titles, including the Call of Duty series), SCEA Santa Monica Studio (coding graphics technology for God of War III), Naughty Dog (developing PS3 first-party libraries), Westwood Studios (leading graphics development on Earth and Beyond) and Intel (driving Pentium pipeline modifications and assisting the SSE / SSE2 instruction set definition).

Banquet Speaker

Morgan McGuire

When: Friday, March 22 at 7:30pm

Title: The Augmented Artist: Research & Development for Production

Abstract: Modern game production is at a crisis. The primary bottleneck on quality, budgets, and schedules for most games is the limited available time of experienced artists. There is little opportunity to increase the number of artists because inflation-adjusted profit margins are stagnant or falling. Simultaneously, consumer expectations for the fidelity of the entertainment experience continue to rise. The solution to this crisis is to recognize that the digital artist's ultimate tool is computation...and that newer GPUs and the cloud disrupt historical trends in available computation for production workflow. We can't make more artists, but we can augment existing ones through computation to increase their effective skill and multiply their efforts. In this talk, I chart this space through case studies of production realities and research possibilities, including scalable assets and algorithms, procedural assets, digital content creation tools, and cloud resources.

Bio: Morgan McGuire researches computational graphics at NVIDIA and teaches graphics and game design at Williams College. He's contributed to the Titan Quest, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Skylanders, Guitar Hero, and Call of Duty video game series and The Graphics Codex, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, ShaderX, GPU Gems books.

Closing Keynote

Ken Perlin

When: Saturday, March 23 at 2:00pm

Title: I3D in 2040: A Look Forward

Bio: Ken Perlin, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at New York University, directs the NYU Games For Learning Institute. He was also founding director of the Media Research Laboratory and director of the NYU Center for Advanced Technology. His research interests include graphics, animation, augmented and mixed reality, user interfaces, science education and multimedia. He received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his noise and turbulenceprocedural texturing techniques, which are widely used in feature films and television, as well as the 2008 ACM/SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, the TrapCode award for achievement in computer graphics research, the NYC Mayor's award for excellence in Science and Technology and the Sokol award for outstanding Science faculty at NYU, and a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Perlin currently serves on the program committee of the AAAS. He was general chair of the UIST2010 conference, and has been a featured artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Dr. Perlin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University, and a B.A. in theoretical mathematics from Harvard University. Before working at NYU he was Head of Software Development at R/GREENBERG Associates in New York, NY. Prior to that he was the System Architect for computer generated animation at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc. He serves on the Advisory Board for the Centre for Digital Media at GNWC, and has served on the Board of Directors of both the New York chapter of ACM/SIGGRAPH and the New York Software Industry Association.

Important Dates

Full paper submission deadline: Oct 23 (Tue), 2012
Notification to authors: Dec 05 (Wed), 2012
Camera-ready version of papers: Dec 14 (Fri), 2012
Poster and demo submissions: Dec 12 (Wed), 2012
Poster and demo notifications: January 15 (Tue), 2013
Student stipend program applications: Mar 19, 2013 - 22:00 GMT
Early conference hotel deadline: Feb 22, 2013
Early registration deadline: Mar 15, 2013
Conference: March 21-23 (Thu-Sat), 2013
Unless specified otherwise, all deadlines are at 11:59 pm PST

Submission Website

http://precisionconference.com/~i3d

Registration Site

http://www.regonline.com/i3d2013

Updates

Mar 12, 2013 - The Student Stipend information is now available.
Mar 12, 2013 - Banquet speaker is now available on the Invited Speakes page.
Feb 23, 2013 - Keynote speakers are now listed on the Invited Speakers page.
Feb 13, 2013 - The Game Industry Panel information is available.
Jan 29, 2013 - The keynote speaker is Naty Hoffman, Vice President of Technology, 2K Games.
Jan 25, 2013 - The academic keynote speaker is Ken Perlin, Professor at NYU, Media Research Lab.
Jan 21, 2013 - The registation information is available.
Jan 9, 2013 - The schedule is available.
Jan 3, 2013 - The list of accepted papers is available.
The poster submission information is available.
The Call For Participation is available.
The 2013 website is live.