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James
O'Brien
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CS professor O'Brien named to TR 100
James O’Brien, assistant professor of computer science
in EECS, has been named to Technology Review magazine’s
2004 TR100, a list of 100 top young innovators under age 35 whose
work is having a profound impact on technology worldwide.
O’Brien’s work in computer animation—which generates
realistic motions like smoke, fire, splashing water, and shattering
glass using physically based simulation and motion-capture techniques—can
be used to train surgeons, soldiers, and firefighters and to generate
special effects for film and television.
O’Brien, who also won a Sloan Research Fellowship last year,
is faculty advisor for the Berkeley Computer Animation and Modeling
Group.
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