SAM LEFFLER (aka The Cycling Curmudgeon)

I've been at Silicon Graphics since 1989 doing various things under the guise of research. Prior to coming to SGI I worked at Pixar, Lucasfilm, UC Berkeley, and a little company called Sytek. I split my work week between Berkeley and Moutain View in California, commuting part of that distance by bicycle. If you want help with something don't send mail to me, send it to the appropriate mailing list. If you otherwise need to reach me your best bet is to send electronic mail to sam@engr.sgi.com. (And yes, this dreadful picture was taken with an IndyCam.)

## Past and Ongoing Stuff

- WWW work: document retrieval and navigation (e.g. the ever-broken MLA tools)
- FlexFAX/HylaFAX software; trying to rid the world of crappy fax software
- TIFF software (the never-ending saga)
- TFP (aka R8000) performance simulation
- FlexKit (old dead GUI toolkit)
- Document searching (gman & other games with inverted indexes)
- GUI issues in handling time-varying data (nih, Dow Jones feed, etc.)

- RenderMan
- Parallel rendering algorithms and performance analysis
- Interactive 3D modeling and animation tools
- Computer-generated special effects for movies
- BSD UNIX (you name it, there's a good chance it's my fault)

- lots more stuff that's too old to remember or too stupid to admit to...

## Personal Interests

- Bicycles (maybe some day I'll be light enough to consider racing)
- Food (cooking)
- Wine (if I haven't drunk it yet, I want to...)
- something else that escapes me...oh, yeah, improving my memory

Last updated $Date: 1998/10/12 20:47:51 $.