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- From: bkc@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Caruthers)
- Subject: Re: Question about CG education
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.190631.14694@Princeton.EDU>
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- Summary: Comp.Graphics education at Princeton (from an undergrad)
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- Organization: Princeton University
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:06:31 GMT
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- The Visual Arts department and Computer Science departments here offer courses
- using SGI workstations, and have a few high-end Macs, as well. There are
- currently over 150 Iris workstations in use on campus, over 60 or 70 of which
- are general access (any enrolled student). Last I heard, Princeton was the
- second largest SGI location. First being SGI itself. :)
-
- You will, however, have to deal with the rest of the departments' requirements
- for a more balanced education. I only started studying graphics in Feb. '91,
- but I still have managed to take 3 grad courses on graphics, and particularly
- on animation, plus two undergrad courses in that time. Job opportunities are
- good, too -- of the 44 interns at SGI this summer, four were from Princeton,
- plus one more who began full-time employment there.
-
- The graphics part of the CS dept. has been expanding rapidly ever since Pat
- Hanrahan (aka "the Graphics God") came here from Pixar in '90. There are
- several other "godly" graphics people who followed him here or were encouraged
- by him to come (like Craig Kolb (RayShade), Michael Cohen (Radiosity), Don
- Mitchell (just about everything), and others). The department has several
- Indigos (R3k/R4k) Elans, Crimson RE (2RM), Crimson Elan, 220/VGX, among
- others. The public clusters consist of PI/35 Magnums (DSP), 210/VGXs,
- 220/VGX, PI/25s, and a central compute server which is a hybrid 4D/480
- (2x33MHz R3k, 6x50/100MHz R4k). Various NeXTs and Suns are available, as
- well.
-
- VisArts and CS have had visiting professors, as well. The ones I have worked
- with are Vibeke Sorensen (CalArts) and Copper Giloth (UMass@Amherst?).
-
- Hope this helps!
-
- -bkc
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- bkc@{phoenix|cs}.Princeton.EDU caruthrs@thumper.Princeton.EDU
- Bruce Caruthers '93 Princeton University bkc@Sgi.COM
- "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear
- never beginning to live." -- Marcus Aurelius
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