Perry Kivolowitz
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Perry Kivolowitz
Perry Kivolowitz (born 1961) is an American computer scientist and business person. In 1985, he co-founded Advanced Systems Design Group which built hardware for the Commodore Amiga. This company was renamed Elastic Reality, Inc. and became well known as a digital imaging software provider. In 1995 this company sold to Avid Technology, Inc.
In 1996 he received an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement for the invention of shape-driven warping and morphing as exemplified in the Avid Elastic Reality package once in widespread use. Dr. Garth Dickie was a co-recipient of this award. The invention is noteworthy in that it provided a means of creating warping and morphing effects using an interface which was more optimized for the user rather than the computation. Previous methods were economical for computers to calculate but difficult for users to use. Most warping software today (such as those linked from the Wikipedia morphing page) are based on the shape-driven method.
Perry is a principal in SilhouetteFX LLC. He co-founded Profound Effects, Inc. (2001–2008) and Hypercosm Inc. (1999–2001).
Starting in 1997 Perry has had a continuing relationship with the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, first as an adjunct faculty member and more recently as an administrator. Beginning in the 2010-2011 academic year, Mr. Kivolowitz teaches the department's Introduction to Computer Graphics course each Fall term.
Perry lectured for AT&T and Bell Labs in the 1980's on Unix Internals and debugging primarily at an AT&T facility in Piscataway New Jersey but also across the country. In April 2012, Perry resumed lecturing on the process of debugging[1]
As an undergraduate Kivolowitz authored one of the earliest key logger programs, the source code of which was posted to Usenet in November 1983.[2]
Since 2004 Perry has been an invited speaker and provided expert testimony on the subject of detecting tampered digital images (both still images and video).
In 2006, Mr. Kivolowitz wed Sara Krueger Kivolowitz.
References
- ^ "Debugging: Art, Science, Neither, Either or Both". http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~perryk/Debugging.pdf. Retrieved 2012-04-15.
- ^ "The Security Digest Archives". http://securitydigest.org/unix/archive/006. Retrieved 2009-11-22.
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