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Philip Fong is a Tier-2 Canada Research Chair in Software Security and an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary.  He was a faculty member at the Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, from 2003 to 2008.  He received his B.Math. and M.Math. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University.  His research interests include language-based security, access control, and security and privacy for social computing.

Ware has a special interest in applying theories of perception to the  design of geospatial data interfaces. He has advanced degrees in both  computer science (MMath, Waterloo) and in the psychology of perception (PhD,Toronto). He has published over 130 scientific articles ranging from rigorously scientific contributions to the Journal of Physiology  and Vision Research to applications oriented articles in the fields of data visualization and human-computer interaction. His book Information Visualization: Perception for Design is now in its second edition. His new book,Visual Thinking for Design, appeared in 2008. Ware also likes to build practical visualization systems. Fledermaus, a  commercial 3D geospatial visualization system widely used in oceanography, was developed from his initial prototypes. His trackPlot software is being used by marine mammal scientists and his flowVis2D software will shortly be serving images on NOAA websites. Colin Ware is Director of the Data Visualization Research Lab which is part of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire.

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Laboratory and director of the NYU Center for Advanced Technology. His research interests include graphics, animation, user interfaces, science education and multimedia. He received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his noise and turbulence procedural texturing techniques, which are widely used in feature films and television, as well as the 2008 ACM/SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, the TrapCode award for achievement in computer graphics research, the NYC Mayor's award for excellence in Science and Technology and the Sokol award for outstanding Science faculty at NYU, and a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. He has also been a featured artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Dr. Perlin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University, and a B.A. in theoretical mathematics from Harvard University. Before working at NYU he was Head of Software Development at R/GREENBERG Associates in New York, NY. Prior to that he was the System Architect for computer generated animation at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc. He has served on the Board of Directors of the New York chapter of ACM/SIGGRAPH, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Software Industry Association.

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/

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Pavel Hrubes received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 2007 from the Charles University in Prague. Afterwards he became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, and since 2008 he has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Michael Haller is a professor at the department of Digital Media of the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences (Hagenberg, Austria), head of the Media Interaction Lab (www.mi-lab.org), head of the Austrian Research Center NiCE, and responsible for computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and augmented reality. His core areas of expertise are visualization and interaction. He received Dipl.-Ing. (1997), Dr. techn. (2001), and Habilitation (2007) degrees from Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. He is active in several research areas, including interactive computer graphics, augmented and virtual reality, and human computer interfaces. His current focus is on innovative interaction techniques and interfaces for next generation working environments. Currently, he leads a team of over 10 researchers and students. In 2004, he received the Erwin Schrödinger fellowship award presented by the Austrian Science Fund for his visit at the Human Interaction Technology Laboratory (HITLabNZ), University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), University of Southern California (USA). Since 2008, Haller is head of the Austrian Research Studio NiCE, designing natural user interfaces for collaborative environments.

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Dr. Sriram Subramanian is a co-director of the interation and graphics group at the University of Bristol (UK), with a research interests in Human-Computer Interaction particularly on expanding the input bandwith. His research is concerned with combining hardware electronics with clever design to enable end-users to fluidly and effortlessness engage with the real world through a computer mediated systems. Prior to joining Bristol he has held positions as an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Saskachewan in Canada and as a senior scientist at Philips Research labs in the Netherlands.

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