Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
Tim McLaughlin, head of the Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University, will discuss how entertainment technology development is driven by the need for creative expression as keynote speaker for an international conference of the electronic display industry June 3 in San Antonio.
McLaughlin’s address will take place at the Display of the Year awards luncheon hosted by the Society for Information Display at the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel during its 2009 international symposium, seminar and exhibition.
His presentation will examine technology of the past 30 years used by movie directors George Lucas, James Cameron, and John Lasseter, as well as the technology required for the work of today's special effects creators.
McLaughlin worked on the special effects of “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace,” “Jurassic Park 3,“ “War of the Worlds,” “Men In Black 2” and other Hollywood blockbusters. He received a Master of Science in Visualization Sciences degree from Texas A&M in 1994 and joined the Texas A&M faculty in 2007.
Information about the luncheon and the symposium is available at www.sid2009.org.
The conference, scheduled May 31 – June 5 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, will feature more than 350 booths with information on the latest in image processing, systems software and display processor hardware and applied vision, and new applications such as multimedia and the electronic cinema.
Contact: Phillip Rollfing, prollfing@archone.tamu.edu
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- Posted: May 19, 2009 -
