Lorensen Talks

1980

The Interactive Graphics Finite Element System, the First Chautauqua on Finite Element Modeling, Cape Cod

1981

Graphics on the VAX, GE Minicomputer Users Group Meeting

ISC Unix on the VAX, GE Minicomputer Users Group Meeting

A Tutorial on the UNIX Make System, GE CRD

Computer Graphics at GE CRD, Fall Meeting of the Hudson/Mohawk Chapter of the ASME

Computer Graphics at GE CRD, Fall Meeting of HLSUA, the Honeywell Large Scale Users Association

Computer Graphics for Structural Analysis, GE CRD Whitney Symposium on Numerical Methods

1982

MOVIE.BYU, Tutorial, GE CRD

Computer Graphics at GE CRD, Tektronix User Group, Albany, NY

Fortran on the VAX, GE CRD

1983

Software Distribution and Maintenance in a Multi-Computer Environment, GE Software Engineering Conference, Daytona Beach, FL

Fortran on the VAX, GE CRD

Computer Graphics at GE CR&D, Rensselaer SME Meeting

Computer Graphics at GE CR&D, Schenectady SME Meeting

Computer Graphics at GE CR&D, Annual CMO Graphics Seminar

Graphics Tools at CR&D, GE CRD

A Tutorial on Make, A Program for Maintaining Programs, GE CRD.

Movie.BYU, Union College Engineering Short-Course

1984

An Object Oriented Design of a Graphics Animation System, 5th GE Software Engineering Conference, Daytona Beach, Florida

Movie.BYU, Union College Engineering Short Course, Schenectady, NY

Computer Graphics Animation, RPI Short Course in Graphics, Troy, NY

Careers in Computer Graphics, Niskayuna High School

Computer Graphics at CRD, Eastern New York ASM and Hudson Mohawk AIME

ISC Unix on the VAX, GE Software Engineering Council

1985

Object Oriented Software Development in a Non Object Oriented Environment, 6th GE SOftware Engineering Conference, Daytona Beach, Florida

Movie.BYU, Union College Engineering Short Course, Schenectady, NY

The OSCAR Computer Animation System, GE CRD, Niskayuna, NY

Unix on the VAX, GE CRD Software Technology Program Summer Course

1986

Object Oriented Design, GE CRD Software Technology Program Summer Course

An Object-Oriented Graphics Animation System, OOPSLA '86

Object-Oriented Graphics Animation, OOPSLA '86 workshop on object oriented geometric modeling

Unix on the VAX, GE CRD Software Technology Program Summer Course

1987

Marching Cubes: A High Resolution Surface Construction Algorithm, Technical Presentation, Siggraph '87, Anaheim, CA

Object-Oriented Geometric Modeling, Course, Siggraph '87, Anaheim, CA

Toolkits: A Product of Their Environment, Panel, Siggraph '87, Anaheim, CA

Object Oriented Design, GE CRD Software Technology Program Summer Course

1988

Object Oriented Design, GE CRD Software Technology Program Summer Course

Object Oriented Design, GE SCSD Course, Daytona Beach, FL

Object Oriented Design, GE Medical Systems Course, Milwaukee, WI

Object Oriented Design, Course, Sun Microsystems, Rochester, NY

Creating Reusable Software Using Object-Oriented Design, GE Software Engineering Conference, Daytona Beach, Florida

Extracting Surfaces from 3D Volumes, University of Rhode Island

1989

Object Oriented Design, Tutorial, GE SOftware Engineering Conference, Daytona Beach, Florida

3D Medical Imaging at GE, University of Illinois

3D Medical Imaging at GE, Sun Microsystems Medical Users Group Meeting, Mountain View, CA

3D Medical Imaging, Tutorial, Visualization in Biomedical Computing, Atlanta, GA

3D Medical Imaging, Tutorial, Siggraph '89, Dallas, TX

1992

Introduction to Volume Visualization, Tutorial, Siggraph '92 3D Visualization in Medicine, Tutorial, Siggraph '92

1994

Computer Vision for Computer Graphics, Course, Siggraph 1994

Extracting Surfaces from Medical Volumes, Course, IEEE Visualization '94.

1995

Virtual Reality, Invited Talk, Interventional MRI Workshop, Dusseldorf, Germany

Exploration of Cross-Sectional Data with a Virtual Endoscope, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality III, San Diego, CA

Virtual Reality in Medicine, Course, IEEE VRAIS

Virtual Endoscopy, Invited Talk, Stanford University Computer Graphics Seminar

Volume Modeling, Invited Talk, Duke University Computer Science Seminar

Virtual Reality in Medicine, Invited Talk, NIH 100th Anniversary of the XRAY

3D Medical Imaging: Past, Present and Future, Invited Talk, Annual Meeting of the Whitaker Foundation, Snow Bird, Utah

Computer Vision for Computer Graphics, Course, Siggraph '95

Marching Through the Visible Man, IEEE Visualization '95

Volume Visualization, Course, IEEE Visualization '95

1996

This was part of my Coolidge Fellowship year.

Marching Through the Visible Woman, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality

Object-Oriented Visualization, Seminar, Stanford University

Virtual Endoscopy, Invited Panel, SAGES

Virtual Reality in Medicine, Invited Panel, IEEE VRAIS

Future Trends in Biomedical Visualization, Invited Panel, Visualization in Biomedical Computing

Volume Rendering Principles, Course, Visualization in Biomedical Computing

Medical Imaging, Past, Present, Future, Evans and Sutherland Distinguished Lecture, University of Utah

Marching Through the Visible Man, National Library of Medicine Visible Human Conference

Volume Visualization Algorithms and Applications, Course, IEEE Visualization '96

Visualization Toolkits: Applications and Techniques, Course, IEEE Visualization '96

Marching Cubes: 1984-1996, Keynote, IEEE Volume Visualization Symposium

Volume Visualization: Principles and Practice, Course, Siggraph '96

Design and Application of Object-Oriented 3D Graphics and Visualization Systems, Course, Siggraph '96

Marching Through the Visible Human, Medicine 2000

3D Medical Imaging, Invited Talk, Japanese Biomedical Super Computing

Digitizing Objects with 3D Computed Tomography, Minnesota 3D Scanning Workshop

Topics in Computer Graphics:Virtual Reality, Stanford University

1997

Virtual Endoscopy Progress, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality in Medicine, Course, IEEE VRAIS

Marching Cubes: 1984-1997, Keynote, Spanish Computer Graphics Society

Volume Visualization: Principles and Practice, Course, IEEE Visualization '97

Visualization Toolkits: Applications and Techniques, Course, IEEE Visualization '97

Volume Visualization, Course, Siggraph '97

Advances in Volume Visualization, Course, Siggraph '97

Design and Application of Object-Oriented 3D Visualization Systems, Course, Siggraph '97

Geometric Clipping, Scalar Fields and Isosurfaces, Invited Talk, SIAM CAGD '97

Visualizing Information, DARPA ISAT, 1997. (pdf)

1998

Virtual Endoscopy Progress, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality

Visualization Toolkits, Course, IEEE Visualization '98

Why is real-time volume rendering no longer a year away?, Panel, IEEE Visualization '98

3D Visualization in Medicine, Course, Siggraph '98

Advances in Volume Visualization, Course, Siggraph '98

Developing High-Performance Graphics Applications for the PC Platform, Course, Siggraph '98

14 Years of Object-Oriented Visualization, Invited Talk, SciTools '98, Oslo, Norway

NIH Panel on Women's Healthcare, Cambride, MA

Hoebel, L., Lorensen, W., Martin, K., Integrating graphics and abstract data to visualize temporal constraints, ACM SIGART Bulletin, Volume 9 , Issue 3-4 (December 1998), pp. 18-23.

1999

Tissue Lens, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality

3D Medical Imaging, NSF Large Data Visualization Workshop

Practical Generation of Models From Acquired Data, Course, Siggraph '99

When All You Have is a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail, Course, Siggraph '99

Volume Graphics, Course, Siggraph '99

Why the PC will be the most pervasive visualization platform in 2001, Panel, IEEE Visualization 1999

A Forensics Toolkit, Talk, AIPR '99

2000

Visualization Frameworks, Invited Talk, Computer-Aided Radiology 2000

VTK Extreme Testing, Talk, Internet Quality Week 2000

VTK Software Quality, MapInfo

How Free is Free Software?, Panel, Siggraph 2000

The Transfer Function Bakeoff, Panel, IEEE Visualization 2000

Visualization Toolkits, Course, IEEE Visualization 2000

2001

20 Years of Object-Oriented Visualization, Invited Talk, SUNY Albany

Open Source Software, Invited Talk, Digital Human Workshop, Bethesda

Three-dimensional Medical Segmentation and Registration, Biotechnology in the Capital Region Part 1: Imaging and Bioengineering, September 2001.

Future of Visualization, Invited Talk, Visions for Computational and Systems Biology Workshop for the Genomes to Life Program, September 2001.

Unification of Vision, Geometry and Graphics Through Software Toolkits, 2001 Workshop on Shape-Based Retrieval and Analysis of 3D Models, Princeton, NY October, 2001.

2002

Registration and Segmentation Research at GRC, Wadsworth Segmentation Workshop

The State of the Toolkit, Invited Talk, National Library of Medicine Board of Regents

Open Platforms for IGI, Invited Talk, NIH/NCI/NIBIB Workshop on Image Guided Interventions

Visualizing the Human Body Using vtk and itk, Tutorial, IEEE Visualization 2002

Volume Rendering: Now we have pretty pictures. What's next?, Panel, IEEE Visualization 2002

The Insight Registration and Segmentation Toolkit, Invited Talk, CODATA 2002

Graphics Research at GE, Invited Talk, Albany Academy Joseph Henry Lecture

2003

Insight Toolkit, Tutorial, SPIE

Truth Before Beauty: Guiding Principles for Scientific and Medical Visualization, Siggraph Special Session

Herding Cats: Developing High Quality Open Source Software, Workshop, MICCAI 2003, Montreal, Canada

Open Source Software for CAD, NIH/NCI CAD Informatics Workshop

Community Software Development, RSNA INfoRad

2004

Insight Toolkit, Tutorial, SPIE

Digital Human: Using Computers to Improve Health, Invited Talk, Congressional R&D Caucus

Inside Insight, Invited Talk, Washington Computer Aided Surgery Society

State of the Art of Medical Visualization, Invited Talk, NSF/NIH Visualization Research Challenges Workshop

IGS Research at GRC, Invited Talk, Image Guided Surgery Symposium

IEEE Visualization Career Award, Invited Talk, IEEE Visualization 2004.

2005

Visualization Crossroads, Keynote, SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA

Open Source Software, Invited Talk, Wadsworth Labs

Open, Collaborative Software Development, Invited Talk, NIH NCRR/NIBIB PI Meeting

Open Software Engineering, Invited Panel, NIH NCRR/NIBIB PI Meeting

State of Visualization, Invited Talk, NSF/NIH Visualization Research Challenges

Virtual Autopsy, Invited Talk, Society of Laproendoscopic Surgeons

2006

Open Source Image Analysis, Tutorial, SPIE Medical Imaging

Open, Collaborative Software Development, UConn Health Science Center

Future of Sample Based Representations, Invited Panel, Volume Graphics 2006

Visualization Careers, Panel, IEEE Visualization

Beyond Pixels, Invited Talk, Stanford Ontology Workshop

IGT Software Engineering, Invited Talk, NIH Image Guided Therapy Workshop

Seeing Biomedicine: New Opportunities and Research Challenges At the Intersection Of Biomedical Imaging and Informatics, Panel, AMIA