Presenters
Chloe Sladden’s Bio
Friday, August 8th, 2008Chloe Sladden
Chloe Sladden is currently a Vice President, Special Programming Projects at Current TV. Chloe has advised CEOs of leading media conglomerates, worked with pioneering new media start-ups and navigated the highs and lows of documentary filmmaking. At Current, she extends the television network’s innovative programming model into new arenas and across multiple platforms as […]
Maneesh Agrawala’s Bio
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Maneesh Agrawala
Assistant Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Visualization Lab
Eric Ulken’s Bio
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Eric UlkenAs editor for interactive technology at latimes.com, Eric is responsible for developing new ways of collecting, organizing and presenting news and information through the use of database and mapping tools and other technologies. He was previously the site’s managing editor for news. A graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and the USC Annenberg […]
Brad Stenger’s Bio
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Brad Stenger is the research director of WIRED NextFest, WIRED magazine’s vision of a new World’s Fair. NextFest 2008 is scheduled for September in Chicago. Prior to NextFest, Brad Stenger ran Technology Review’s TR100 awards and has written for Scientific American and several other magazines and newspapers. In 2007, he was part-time center associate at […]
Jeffrey Heer’s Bio
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Jeffrey Heer is finishing his PhD in computer science at UC Berkeley. His research focus is human-computer interaction, with an emphasis on information visualization and social computing. His research has produced novel visualization techniques for more effectively exploring data, software tools to simplify visualization creation and customization, and collaborative visualization systems that leverage the insights […]
Irfan Essa’s Bio
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Irfan Essa
Irfan Essa is a professor in the School of Interactive Computing of the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. He works in the areas of computer vision, computer graphics, robotics, computer animation (and it afects video analysis and production, computational photography, image-based modeling, rendering, etc.), human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence research. He has […]