Lorensen Vitae

Talks, Courses and Panels

1980

The Interactive Graphics Finite Element System, the First Finite Element Chautauqua, 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 if the Hudson/Mohawk Chapter of the ASME

Computer Graphics at GE CRD, Fall Meeting if the 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 CR&D, 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

1996

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 Rendering Algorithms and Applications, Course, IEEE Visualization '96

Object Oriented Visualization, Course, IEEE Visualization '96

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

Volume Visualization, Course, Siggraph '96

Object-Oriented Visualization, 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

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 Rendering Algorithms and Applications, Course, IEEE Visualization '97

Object Oriented Visualization, Course, IEEE Visualization '97

Volume Visualization, Course, Siggraph '97

Object-Oriented Visualization, Course, Siggraph '97

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

1998

Virtual Endoscopy Progress, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality

Visualization Toolkits, Course, IEEE Visualization '98

Volume Visualization, Course, Siggraph '98

Object-Oriented Visualization, Course, Siggraph '98

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

NIH Panel on Women's Healthcare

1999

Tissue Lens, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality

3D Medical Imaging, NSF Large Data Visualization Workshop

Practical Model Generation, Course, Siggraph '99

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

Volume Visualization, Course, Siggraph '99

Why the PC Will Be the Only Vis Platform in 2001, Course, Siggraph '99

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

Patents

[US 5900880] 3-D surfaces generated from a list of cubic elements

[US 5821942] Ray Tracing Through An Ordered Array

[US 5740802] Computer Graphic And Live Video System For Of Body Structures During Surgery

[US 5682506] Method And System For Group Visualization Of Virtual Objects

[US 5611025] Virtual Internal Cavity Inspection System

[US 5542036] Implicit Modeling Of Swept Volumes And Swept Surfaces

[US 5514962] Oblique MR Image Controlled From A 3D Workstation Model

[US 5458126] Cardiac Functional Analysis System Employing Segmentation

US 5433199 Cardiac Functional Analysis Method Using Gradient Image Segmentation

US 5412563 Gradient Image Segmentation Method

US 5365927 Magnetic Resonance Imaging System With Pointing Device

US 5345490 Method And Apparatus For Converting Computed Data Into Finite Element Models

US 5204625 Segmentation Of Stationary And Vascular Surfaces Resonance Imaging

US 5187658 System and Method for Segmenting Internal Within The Interior Region Of A Solid Object

US 5166876 System and Method for Detecting Internal Within The Interior Region Of A Solid Object

US 5146557 User Interface For A Golf Green And A Golf System

US 4984157 System and Method for Displaying Oblique Planar Of A Solid Body Using Tri-Linear Interpolation To Determine Pixel Position Dataes

US 4879668 Method of Displaying Internal Surfaces of Medical Images

US 4831528 Apparatus and Method for Improvement Of 3d From Tomographic Data

US 4821213 System for the Simultaneous Display of Two or Surfaces within A Solid Object

US 4791567 Three Dimensional Connectivity System Employing Schema For Determining Connected Substructures Within A Body

US 4751643 Method And Apparatus For Determining Within A Body

US 4729098 System And Method Employing Nonlinear Interpolation Display Of Surface Structures Contained Within The Interior Region Of A Solid Body

US 4719585 Dividing Cubes System and Method for the Display Structures Contained Within The Interior Region Of A Solid Body

US 4710876 System and Method for the Display of Surface Within The Interior Region Of A Solid Body

US 4525858 Method and Apparatus for Reconstruction of Surfaces from Interference Fringes