Ajit Dandapani started at Silicon Graphics in January of 1995. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Maryland. He currently manages the Power CHALLENGE operating system effort for IRIX 6.1. His achievements include designing and developing several operating systems for various platforms.
Alan Holdship holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Salford University. He is a native of England and also holds French nationality. He joined Silicon Graphics from Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 1991 to set up European distribution channels. At HP, Mr. Holdship managed both product marketing and marketing communications on a European and international level and he was instrumental in developing HP's third-party distribution channel. Mr. Holdship transferred from Europe in 1992 to help make the Silicon Graphics Developer Program number one in the marketplace.
Office Hours for Alan Holdship: Tuesday, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Alex Petruncola joined MIPS in 1989 and transferred to Silicon Graphics as a result of the merger between Silicon Graphics and MIPS. He holds a B.S. from CalTech and an M.S. from U.C. Berkeley. His primary responsibility for the past three years has been to bring up the Power CHALLENGE. He is also involved in Release 5.0 of IRIX software.
Allan McNaughton joined the Developer Environments group at Silicon Graphics in early 1992. He is currently working on memory corruption analysis tools, and is on assignment at Pure Software porting Purify. Prior to this, he was a senior consultant to the WorkShop Debugger and performance analysis tools. His background includes extensive experience with compilers, debuggers and language tools. He holds a B.S. in computer science from Florida Atlantic University.
Office Hours for Allan McNaughton: Thursday, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Title: Manager of the Developer Technical Program
Andrew Cameron, Manager of the Developer Technical Program at Silicon Graphics, oversees all of the technical aspects of Forum '95. In addition, he and his team are responsible for the following components of the Developer Program:
The Developer Assistance Center is staffed with subject-matter experts who solve porting problems that hardware and software developers may encounter. The Developer Lab is a facility that developers can use to port and test their products on the Silicon Graphics platform.
Andrew Cameron joined Silicon Graphics in 1988; prior to joining Silicon Graphics he worked at Cydrome and Xerox PARC. He also lectured at the University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate school in computer science and mechanical engineering. His favorite hobby is exploring the world with his wife and their three-year-old daughter.
Office Hours for Andrew Cameron: Tuesday, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Ben Mahjoor has been a member of the technical staff for the Developer Technical Program group since 1993. He is responsible for all device driver-related questions coming to the Developer Program. He also writes sample device drivers for distribution in the Developer Toolbox CD. Before joining Silicon Graphics he worked at Amdahl Corporation, where he was responsible for developing device drivers and maintaining Amdahl's latest console system.
Office Hours for Ben Mahjoor: Thursday, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Title: Director of Engineering
Biography: Not available
Office Hours for Bill Melohn: Wednesday, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Bill Torzewski joined Silicon Graphics in 1990 to work on Indigo GL graphics software. He is currently the manager of graphics software for DSS (Indy Division). He holds a B.S. in computer science from U.C. Berkeley and an M.S. in computer science from San Jose State University.
Office Hours for Bill Torzweski: Thursday, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Brad Eacker has been with Silicon Graphics since July of 1992. He was part of the team that was brought over when Silicon Graphics merged with MIPS. His first task at Silicon Graphics was to design and run the disk I/O subsystem for the CHALLENGE product line. The performance of this I/O subsystem has been a strength for the CHALLENGE line, especially in view of the greater than 500 MB per second that has been achieved when reading from a disk farm that fits easily into the CHALLENGE architecture. This performance level has been the heart of a number of areas for which the CHALLENGE system provides solutions, including Video on Demand, database performance, and so on.
Subsequent to delivering the CHALLENGE disk I/O environment, Brad has been involved in much of the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) work that has gone on at Silicon Graphics, including the TPC-B and TPC-A results that Silicon Graphics reported in 1993 and 1994. One of his later projects culminated in the information being presented here: the creation of a 200GB database on a CHALLENGE server. As he puts it, "Going from zero to database administration in just under three months."
Office Hours for Brad Eacker: Tuesday, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Brian Cabral is a member of the technical staff in the Market Solutions Division. He received a B.S. in computer science from California State University, Stanislaus, and an M.S. in computer science from the University of California, Davis. He has written many articles on computer graphics and scientific visualization. His interests include image processing, visualization, lighting and mathematical techniques of computer graphics.
Office Hours for Brian Cabral: Wednesday, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Biography: Not available
Office Hours for Bruce Johnson: Thursday, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Carl Korobkin received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University. He has been on the engineering staff at Silicon Graphics for the past nine years, specializing in graphics and imaging. He has contributed to the development of the GT, VCX(T), and RealityEngine graphics systems. Carl currently holds one U.S. patent in the area of computer graphics, and has published and presented for ACM Siggraph on the subject of projective image techniques. He co-authored the textbook "C++ Subject-Oriented Data Structures," which was recently published by Springer-Verlag. Carl is presently a member of the Applied Engineering Group in the Advanced Systems Division (formerly AGD), and is responsible for image-processing development.
Chris Henn is a Technical Marketing Specialist focusing on innovative graphics concepts for the chemical, pharmaceutical and biomedical markets. He holds an M.S. in molecular biology from the University of Basel, and conducted his Ph.D studies at the M.E. Muller Institute for Structural Biology, specializing in comparative structural analysis and supramolecular modeling. Prior to joining Silicon Graphics in 1994, he was part of the Silicon Graphics Texture team, which pioneered the application of texture mapping to scientific, technical and engineering visualization.
Office Hours for Chris Henn: Wednesday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Dan Baca is a member of the ImageVision Library (IL) engineering team in Core Rendering/ASD. He has been with Silicon Graphics since 1990 and holds a B.S.E.E. from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining Silicon Graphics, Dan spent six years at Lockheed working on a variety of assignments, including several image-processing projects.
Office Hours for Dan Baca: Tuesday, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Dan Pritchett has been with Silicon Graphics since August of 1994. He is responsible for the interfaces to the next Silicon Graphics desktop. He is the magic opener in the desktop world at Silicon Graphics. He holds a B.S. from the University of Missouri at Rolla. He came from Sun Microsystems where he was the technical lead on COE.
Title: Principal Engineer
Biography: Not available
Office Hours for Dave Olson: Tuesday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM and Wednesday, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Dave Ratcliffe joined Silicon Graphics in February of 1986, spending his first five years working on the hotline. In 1991 he joined the Silicon Graphics Developer Program. For the past four years he has created and maintained the Developer Toolbox CD. At present he is grappling with issues related to wrapping an HTML user interface around the toolbox to make it available on the World Wide Web. He is also working on breaking the single-CD barrier in hopes of publishing future versions of the toolbox on multiple CDs.
Office Hours for Dave Ratcliffe: Tuesday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
David Blythe is a Technical Staff Member in the Advanced Systems Division. He emigrated from Canada in 1991 to assist Silicon Graphics in developing RealityEngine. He has contributed to the implementation of the graphics library and kernel drivers, and has written hardware microcode. He is currently working on the OpenGL implementation of the RealityEngine. David received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the University of Toronto.
Office Hours for David Blythe: Wednesday, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Ciemo (a.k.a. Dave Ciemiewicz) has been with SGI since May of 1986, after graduating from U.C. Davis with a B.S. in computer science and mathematics. Since that time he's had the odd job or two around SGI, working on compilers, the WorkShop Debugger (cvd), the UDP broadcast networking module for dog (before multicasting came along), tools for generating APIs for IRIS GL and OpenGL, and the man command. Today he is one of the technology instigators of the WebFORCE project at SGI, and is the author of the WebMagic online tutorial.
Biography: Not available
David Fenstemaker has been with Silicon Graphics for eight years, managing enterprise networking, X, Motif, the window manager and, most recently, software installation and licensing technology. His passion is to develop the technology necessary to create electronic software stores on the World Wide Web. He is a graduate of Kent State University and the University of San Francisco.
David Henke is an Engineering Manager for Development Environments in the Visual Magic Division. He joined Silicon Graphics in 1990 and most recently managed the CASEVision/WorkShop suite of development tools. He is currently managing the new development environment project and the Purify project, which is a joint effort to port Purify to the Silicon Graphics platform.
Prior to joining Silicon Graphics, Mr. Henke was founder of two software companies, developing products for hardware and software engineers. He holds a B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
David Lee is Manager of Application Software Marketing in the Advanced Data Division of Silicon Graphics. The Advanced Data Division's primary focus is the design and marketing of the CHALLENGE server family, which targets the file/storage, database and media server markets.
A graduate of Cal Poly with a degree in business and computer science, Mr. Lee designed OLTP systems for companies such as Coca-Cola, Colgate, Palmolive and Intel. He entered the early PC revolution by joining the engineering group at VisiCorp, the maker of VisiCalc; he joined super minicomputer maker Altos when commercial UNIX began.
Mr. Lee moved into a marketing career with Pyramid Technology, and was one of the original MIPS ABI members in 1991. He created the MIPS ABI Marketing committee in 1992, which later merged with the ISV committee. He became chair of the combined committee, a position that he still holds.
Office Hours for David Lee: Tuesday, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
David Marsland, member of the technical staff, GFX programming course developer, teacher, renegade, time-impaired, late for sabbatical...
In my spare time I play with eye-tracking stuff. I try it on my kids but they look away. When no one's watching, I code solar systems, wavy pools and flying games. Five years ago, I taught IRIS GL and developed the IRIS Inventor Programming course; I later moved on to develop OpenGL2 programming. The latest rev of the Performer Programming course was just released, and all it took was one 36-hour day to get it out the door.
David VomLehn started as Tandem Computer's representative for the MIPS ABI Technical committee in January 1993, becoming committee chair in October of the same year. He also manages the Layered Software Department of the Tandem Integrity Systems Division, based in Austin, Texas. He received a B.A. in physics from Dartmouth College in 1980 and remains unsure of how it helps in the computer industry. He was active in the IEEE 855 (MOSI) committee and in the second phase of the UNIX International Transaction Processing working group.
Deb Galdes joined Silicon Graphics in 1990, and is one of the founding members of the User Interface and Usability Group in the Visual Magic Division. Her most recent accomplishment is publishing the "Indigo Magic User Interface Guidelines," commonly referred to as the "SGI Style Guide." Other contributions at Silicon Graphics include providing usability support for the desktop, digital media tools, and Showcase. Deb has a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from Ohio State University, and an M.S. in computer science from Stanford University.
Office Hours for Deb Galdes: Tuesday, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM and Wednesday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Don Schuerholz, who has been with Silicon Graphics since 1994, is an applications engineer with IDS developer services. Don trains and consults IDS's software development partners who are writing applications for the Time Warner Full Service Network in Orlando, Florida. Prior to joining Silicon Graphics, Don worked for EO Inc. and Network Equipment Technologies, where he helped to develop and support a variety of distributed client/server and object-oriented development environments. He holds an M.S. from the University of Delaware. In his spare time, Don plays bass in the San Francisco-based grunge band "Love Butter," and maintains the band's home page on the World Wide Web.
Office Hours for Don Schuerholz: Tuesday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM, and Wednesday, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Doug Young is a principal scientist in the Visual Magic Division, joining Silicon Graphics in July of 1990 to work on development tools. Doug has been responsible for the IRIS ViewKit class library as well as various parts of the Developer Magic Workshop environment. His current project is RapidApp. Doug is the author of several books, including "The X Window System: Programming and Applications with XT," "Object-Oriented Programming with C++ and OSF/Motif," and "Motif Debugging and Performance Tuning."
Douglas Rand started at Silicon Graphics in February 1995 as a member of the technical staff. He came here from the X Consortium, where he worked on CD Enert and OSF as a member of the developer team for Motif 2.0. Doug holds an M.S.E.E. from Dartmouth College and a B.S.E.E. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Office Hours for Don Schuerholz: Wednesday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Biography: Not available
Eric Salo joined Silicon Graphics in December of 1994. He previously worked on supercomputing applications at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for five years. Eric holds a B.A. in computer science from Gustavus Adolphus College and an M.S. in computer science from Stanford University.
Erik Fortune joined Silicon Graphics in 1990. He has been working in the lower reaches of X (the server and X1.b) for over eight years. He co-authored "The X Window System" published by Digital Press. Erik received his B.A. in computer science from Brandess University in 1985.
Gary Griffin is currently an engineering manager in Silicon Studio with responsibilities for Keystone and multimedia asset management. He joined Silicon Graphics in 1987 and has worked in many different areas of technical marketing and engineering.
Office Hours for Gary Griffin: Thursday, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Geoff Brown is the Core Architect of the FireWalker project at Silicon Studio. He has been with Silicon Graphics since early 1994 and with Silicon Studio since its inception. Geoff has worked on media authoring beginning with graphic drawing tools at Xerox in 1979 and continuing with courseware authoring at Apple and multimedia animation at Macromedia. He's also been involved with music composition for Electronic Arts. He won the Software Publishers Association "Best Music Product of 1987" for the music notation composition program Deluxe Music Construction Set published by Electronic Arts.
Office Hours for Geoff Brown: Wednesday, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Geoff Peck is Director of System Software, Server Technology, in the Advanced Data Division. He joined Silicon Graphics in 1993, after acquiring at least one or two well-concealed gray hairs since his start in operating systems in 1969 and his first exposure to UNIX in 1975. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1978, migrated west to U.C. Berkeley to avoid home delivery of snow, and in the process acquired an M.S. in 1982. His voyage through Silicon Valley has included stops at Tolerant Systems, HP and Apple, as well as a number of consulting stints. In his spare time he skis, flies light airplanes, writes aviation software, and practices management skills by herding three Siamese cats.
George Pirocanac joined Silicon Graphics as a result of the merger with MIPS. He currently manages an MTI compiler group and works with the MIPS semiconductor partners NEC and IDT, producing software-development tools for embedded systems. He is also the author of the "MIPSpro 64-bit Porting and Transition Guide." Along with his 12-plus years of industry experience, George received a B.S. in computer science in 1982 from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Gianni Mariani is a Manager of Internationalization and Localization R&D at Silicon Graphics. He joined Silicon Graphics in 1991 in Switzerland, and was a member of the European Applications Consulting group before moving to Mountain View. While in Switzerland, Gianni worked on libraries, MP, GL, and dynamic storage algorithms; he also consulted with many European developers. Prior to joining Silicon Graphics, he worked with Spatial Systems, Cincom, GEC Digital in Australia, and the Electricity Commissions of N.S.W. Gianni graduated in 1983 from the University of New South Wales, Australia, with a B.E. in electrical engineering.
Office Hours for Gianni Mariani: Tuesday, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Gretchen Helms joined Silicon Graphics in October of 1989 to work for the customer support hotline. In April 1993 she transferred to ISD Technical Marketing to serve as Technical Lead for the IndiZone project. Since then she produced the IndiZone and IndiZone2 CDs. Dubbed the "Games Master" for ISD Applied Engineering, she's currently working on IndiZone3. She graduated with a B.A. from Mills College in Oakland in May of 1987.
Dr. Jay Gischer holds a B.S. in computer science and a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. He has been an employee of Silicon Graphics for two years.
Office Hours for Jay Gischer: Wednesday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Jeff Barco is the Manager of Interactive Content Services for Interactive Digital Solutions, the joint venture of ATT, Silicon Graphics, and Time Warner. He directs the product and marketing activites that enable the creative community to author, produce, and distribute content services for Interactive television networks.
Prior to Interactive Digital Solutions, Jeff helped form and launch Silicon Studio, the Silicon Graphics's company focused on providing digital production solutions for the film, video, and broadcast markets.
Before joining Silicon Graphics, Jeff was a senior manager at Apple Computer from 1980-1991. He specialized in new market startups, specifically, the college and university market and the multimedia/creative community market.
Jeff Fier is a Performance Engineer in the Supercomputing Systems Divison of Silicon Graphics. He joined Silicon Graphics in October of 1993 and has worked on tuning programs for the Power CHALLENGE system. In addition, he has developed training material to help others do the same. Prior to joining Silicon Graphics he worked at MasPar Computer Corporation, Symult System/Ametek Computer Research Division, and was a consultant to IBM on parallel computing. Dr. Fier received a B.S. and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the California Institute of Technology.
Office Hours for Jeff Fier: Thursday, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Jeffrey Heller is a member of the technical staff at Silicon Graphics. He is currently a member of the system software group working on POSIX extensions to IRIX for real time, including synchronous and asynchronous I/O, clocks, timers as well as real-time tracing tools. Prior to this position he worked at Kubota Pacific Computer, OSF and Scalable Technologies.
Office Hours for Jeff Heller: Thursday, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Jim Helman came to Silicon Graphics Advanced Systems Division in January 1993 to help develop VisKit, the project that was eventually (and fortunately) renamed IRIS Performer. Before coming to Silicon Graphics, he was a graduate student of applied physics at Stanford University, where he researched visualization of fluid flows. His interests include virtual environments, real-time character animation, and keeping large green cars running.
Office Hours for Jim Helman: Thursday, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
John Hwa joined Silicon Graphics in June of 1989. His project accomplishments include software architect and implementation for Live Video Digitizer, VideoLab, Explorer and Capture. He is currently working in the FireWalker core team. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering/computer science from U.C. Berkeley and an M.S. in computer science from Santa Clara University.
Office Hours for John Hwa: Wednesday, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Kathy Simpson is the manager of the Interactive Digital Solutions Developer Program - working with companies who are exploring the Interactive TV market by building content applications. Kathy has been with Silicon Graphics for four years and was an original member of the Silicon Graphics Developer Program. She holds a master's degree in applied mathematics from Rennsalear Polytechnic Institute.
Office Hours for Kathy Simpson: Tuesday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM, and Wednesday, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Kim Rachmeler has been at Silicon Graphics for five years and was one of the original engineers on the CASE team. Prior to joining Silicon Graphics, Kim spent five years at Hewlett-Packard working on CAD tools. Kim has B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Office Hours for Kim Rachmeler: Wednesday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Kurt Akeley is a Vice President and Chief Engineer at Silicon Graphics. He has been with Silicon Graphics since its founding in 1982, and is an architect (along with Mark Segal) of the OpenGL graphics interface. His interests include hardware system design, high-performance graphics, and schematic and simulation tool development. Kurt received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware in 1980, and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1982.
Office Hours for Kurt Akeley: Wednesday, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Mark Peercy is a member of the technical staff in the Advanced Systems Division of Silicon Graphics. He received a B.S. in engineering physics from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University. His interests include lighting and shading in interactive, photorealistic rendering.
Marty Itzkowitz holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics from CalTech. After a postdoctoral fellowship at U.C. Berkeley, he worked at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, Vitesse Electronics, and Sun Microsystems. He joined Silicon Graphics in 1990 and was the technical lead for the initial WorkShop/Performance release. Most recently, Dr. Itzkowitz worked on extending WorkShop to provide support for application parallelization, debugging and performance measurements on MP programs.
Office Hours for Marty Itzkowitz: Wednesday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM and Thursday, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Mason Woo oversees Product Marketing and licensing for OpenGL at Silicon Graphics. He is co-author of the "OpenGL Programming Guide" published by Addison-Wesley. He co-originated the IRIS Programming Tutorial project and has been team leader for five Silicon Graphics Tutorium booths at Siggraph. Mason has taught students about Silicon Graphics programming interfaces since 1985. He has two degrees in computer science from Brown University.
Office Hours for Mason Woo: Wednesday, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Michael Jones has been a member of the Performer development team since joining Silicon Graphics. He has worked with visual simulation systems for the past five years. Prior to this role he implemented systems used for the color conversion of films and serials, as well as systems that optimize cellular telephone antenna placement and the nationwide routing of delivery trucks. He has been a professional computer programmer since he was in seventh grade.
Office Hours for Michael Jones: Tuesday, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Michael Kung is a member of Internationalization and Localization R&D at Silicon Graphics. He joined Silicon Graphics in April and is still new and fresh.
For five years prior to joining Silicon Graphics, Michael worked on internationalization and localization projects and related standards. He was involved in internationalization in X11R4, X11R5, X11R6, Motif, OSF/!, AIX, and AT&T's system V.3. He graduated in 1986 from the University of Southern Mississippi with a B.S. in computer science.
Office Hours for Michael Kung: Tuesday, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Michey Mehta has been involved in the development of C++ compilers and environments for six years. He has been at Silicon Graphics for two years and is currently managing the C++ compiler team. Michey has a master's degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Mike Yang received his M.S. in computer science from Stanford University in 1988. He is currently working on program visualization to support debugging, analysis and performance tuning of X/Motif applications. Previously, he designed and implemented the user interface for the Silicon Graphics CASEVision suite of programming environment tools and the underlying application and communication framework.
Office Hours for Mike Yang: Tuesday, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Pete Sullivan joined Silicon Graphics in 1988. He is currently enrolled at Stanford University where he is working toward a master's degree in computer science. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Detroit. Prior to this he was a navy pilot.
Office Hours for Pete Sullivan: Wednesday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Raj Das joined Silicon Graphics in December 1994 as the High Availability Product Manager for the Advanced Data Division. Prior to joining SGI, Raj worked as a UNIX developer at Amdahl Corporation, and held development and marketing positions at Tandem Computers. Mr. Das has a B.A. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, an M.S. in computer science from Amherst, and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.
In his spare time, Raj likes to travel, drink wine and try to calm his hyperactive year-and-a-half-old daughter.
Ravi Shankar has an M.S. and an E.E. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He has been working as a member of the technical staff with the DE group of VMD for the past three years. He is the developer of C++ class browser and Fix and Continue, which are part of the Developer Magic Workshop Tools. In his previous employment in India he developed tools in the following areas: image processing, process-control graphics, UI and CASE.
Rick McLeod is the Hardware Developer's Technical Program Manager. He has worked at Silicon Graphics for 10 years in the areas of Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering and Developer Technical Program as both an engineer and manager. Prior to working for Silicon Graphics, Rick worked for Priam and TRW as an engineer in their manufacturing facilities.
Office Hours for Rick McLeod: Wednesday, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Rob Bradshaw is part of the HPC systems software group of Silicon Graphics' Supercomputing Systems Division. He is currently working on IRIX extensions to support the Power CHALLENGE-ARRAY. He has been with Silicon Graphics since 1994, and has a B.A. and an M.A. in computer science from Boston University.
Todd Newman is a member of the technical staff working on color management. He is also the chair of the International Color Consortium. He joined Silicon Graphics on April Fool's Day in 1991. He has worked on X servers both at Silicon Graphics and in his previous job at DEC. Before that he worked on applications and compilers at Microsoft. He graduated from Harvard in 1981 with an A.B. in philosophy.
Office Hours for Todd Newman: Wednesday, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Tom Murphy joined Silicon Graphics in May of 1990. He spent five years helping Silicon Graphics software-development engineers learn how the process works at Silicon Graphics. While nominally filling a teaching role he came to own, in part or in whole, several processes and tools in the image-generation end of things. He also wrote tools to assist with his education efforts, the most elaborate of which was a frequently asked questions (FAQ) compiler that generates an interlinked series of Web pages and ascii text from the same data. He joined dave ratcliffe several weeks ago to assist with the CD and Web versions of the Developer Toolbox. As a result he and his teacher's heart are quite happy.
Office Hours for Tom Murphy: Tuesday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Tom Phelan is a member of the technical staff in the XFS File System group, Advanced Data Division. He started at Silicon Graphics in 1994 to work on both the real-time aspects of the XFS file system and the development of media server technology. Prior to joining Silicon Graphics, he spent eight years working for Altos Computer Systems, Stratus Computers, and IBM. He graduated with an A.B. from U.C. Berkeley in 1986.
Tom Quiggle joined Silicon Graphics' ADA development team in January of 1994. Prior to working at Silicon Graphics, he developed satellite communications systems in ADA, and spent nine years working for an ADA83 vendor. Mr. Quiggle has a B.S. in computer science, with a minor in electrical engineering, from San Diego State University.
Victor Riley joined Silicon Graphics in August 1991 as a member of the technical staff on the IRIS InSight online-documentation project. He designed the process Silicon Graphics uses to get its books online in InSight. He is now involved with adapting Netscape Communication's products to the WebFORCE projects.
Victor received his B.S. in computer science from Oregon State University in 1983. Prior to working at Silicon Graphics, he worked at Brown University for the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), helping develop IRIS Intermedia's link server. He was also involved with the ANSI committee, working on the HyTime SGML standard. Prior to working at IRIS he worked at Tektronix on the Hypertext Abstract Machine project.
Office Hours for Victor Riley: Wednesday, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM, Thursday, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Wes Embry is the ADA Project Leader. He has been with Silicon Graphics for seven years, and has worked closely with the NYU GNAT team over the past 18 months. He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Texas.
Office Hours for Wes Embry: Tuesday, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Yusuf Attarwala is currently a member of the Developer Technical Program group at Silicon Graphics. He has been with the company for seven-and-a-half years, working with key developers in the areas of GL and OpenGL. Prior to joining Silicon Graphics, he worked at National Semiconductor in computer graphics for ECAD. Yusuf holds an M.S. in manufacturing engineering/computer science from UCLA, and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Iowa.
Biography: Not available