Oscar winning Dane speaks at JAOO
The JAOO Team is proud to present Henrik Wann Jensen as keynote speaker at JAOO 2010. Did you watch "Lord of the Rings" and "Avatar" thinking wow, how did they make Gollum look like that, or how did they make the creatures blue? Henrik Wann Jensen knows the answer. The Dane is an expert on computer graphics and in 2004 he recieved an Oscar - Technical Achievement Award - for pioneering research in rendering translucent materials in his work on Gollum. The same year he was voted one of the top 10 scientists by Popular Science Magazine.
Henrik was born in Harlev, a small town just outside Aarhus, Denmark and today he lives in California where he is an associate professor at the University of California working in the computer graphics lab. His research is focused on realistic image synthesis, global illumination, rendering of natural phenomena and appearance modeling. His contribtions to computer graphics include the photon mapping algorithm for global illumination, and the first technique for efficiently simulating subsurface scattering in translucent materials.