Graphics Group Staff

from left to right, top row: Anne Spalter (Staff Researcher, Artist-in-Residence), Rosemary Michelle Simpson (Resources Coordinator), Andy Forsberg (Sr. Research User Interface Design), Mark Oribello (AV Coordinator)

middle row: Lisa Manekofsky (Admin. Mangr), Bob Zeleznik (Director, Research), Jesse Funaro (Research Assistant), Loring Holden (Sr. Research Software Engineer),and Juergen Schulze (Post-doc)

seated: Eileen Vote (Post-doc), Sascha Becker (Research Staff), Tim Miller (Research Scientist), and Leo Thomas (Graphics Systems Programmer).

not present: Kristin Alsfeld (Administrative Assistant)

ANNE MORGAN SPALTER (Research Staff, Artist-in-Residence)
I came to the Computer Department in 1995, after teachingfor two years in the Visual Art Department. For several years I was the Outreach Director for the NSF STC for Graphics and Visualization. Today I work on projects related to education and graphics projects that combine art and science, such as work on color. In 1999 Addison-Welsey published my book "The Computer in the Visual Arts," which is now used as a textbook in art schools, colleges, and universities around the country.

ROSEMARY MICHELLE SIMPSON
Rosemary conducts background research for talks, papers, and proposals. She is also the Webmaster for the Graphics Group and formerly also for the NSF STC for Computer Graphics and Visualization. In her free time, Rosemary works on ConceptLab, a project to create hypermedia interfaces for information visualization. She is also an accomplished quilter.

LISA MANEKOFSKY (Admin. Mgr)
Lisa joined the Department in 1995 as Administrative Manager of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization under then-Director Andy van Dam. She continues to work on administrative and financial matters for the Computer Graphics Research Group. Lisa suspects that most of the people who stop by her office are not there to see her but, instead, have come to admire her collection of lava lamps (which is fine by her).

BOB ZELEZNIK (Director, Research)
Andy van Dam took me on as staff in the fall of '89 after I completed my Master's project with him that spring. I figured it would be a good opportunity to win an intra-mural football or softball championship before moving on to the real world. Somehow, a half-dozen championships later, I'm still here. In my spare time from intramurals over the years, I've managed to do some research work in 3D graphics and user interfaces.

LORING HOLDEN (Sr. Research Software Engineer)
I started working for the department in the summer of '95 for free, and at the end of the summer I was honored to be put on miscellaneous payroll. I wasn't an official employee until '96, and I foolishly thought my new full-time job would continue to be solely what I'd already been doing - coding. That, needless to say, was not the case. I've gotten to the point where I not only understand what avd really means when he emails with "pls see me", "pls cope", "sigh", etc.; but I also did a presentation about such "avd translations" at Andy Fest (with help from various unnamed co-workers).

JUERGEN SCHULZE (Post-doc)
I am certainly one of the newest members of the computer science department, as I have joined the graphics group only in September 2003. I have a Master's (1999) and a Doctorate degree (2003) in computer science from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. My research is focused on scientific visualization in virtual environments, particularly the Cave.

LEOR THOMAS (Graphics Systems Programmer)
Hiya. I work on scientific visualization projects with the Visualization Research Lab here. In this direction I research scientific topics, design visualization systems, and do quite a bit of coding.