Tech Talk by Blue Sky Studios on CGI @ CUNY Queens College Tech Expo / Job Fair
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UPDATE* The Fall 2017 Business and Tech Expo Event will have representatives from: New York Life, Baker Tilly, Canon, Abbot, Streetlib, Hollister, Bloomberg, SCIP, BNY Mellon, Byteflow Dynamics, Queens EDC, and more. It will also be attended by a large number of Queens College Computer Science students as well as from other disciplines. It will be taking place at 12pm tomorrow on the Quad at Queens College.
AT 1 PM in the Science Building located adjacent to South West corner of the quad in Room C-201 will be the tech talk by Maurice Van Swaaij from Blue Sky Studios. For a map of campus please see [
http://www.qc.cuny.edu/about/directions/2d/Pages/default.aspx ] .
The Queens College Chapter of ACM is co-hosting a tech talk by Blue Sky Studios at the Fall 2017 Business-Tech Expo on Campus. The expo is essentially a stop-and-chat job fair between NYC employers and Students at Queens College. It's a great opportunity to network and find work for students in Computer Science and for companies to find entry level employees. Queens College produces more CS Bachelor's degrees than any other NYC school and just recently produced the winning team in the 2017 Governor's "Making College Possible" Coding Challenge.
Maurice Van Swaaij is the R&D head of Blue Sky Studios. He will be giving a presentation on their proprietary graphics rendering tool CGIStudio. He received his Software Engineering degree in the Netherlands and a Masters in Scientific Computing from Courant Institute in New York.After starting his career in CG at TDI in Paris, he joined Blue Sky in 1994 where he developed a voxel based ray-tracing technology for rendering hair for the first Ice Age movie. Subsequently the technology has been used to render fur, feathers, foliage, flowers, grass, saw dust, snow and crowds of characters among other things.
We hope anyone interested in this event will come and check out the growing ACM community in Queens!
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