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We are very fortunate to have a 2009 MAX finalist to present at our November meeting, which will be held on Tuesday, November 24th from 6-8:30pm at the Ohio State University's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD).
Maria Palazzi, Director of the ACCAD and Associate Professor of Design at The Ohio State University will be presenting the creative possibilities that exist when the worlds of choreography, interactive, animation and design intersect.
Synchronous objects is an interactive exploration of choreographer William Forsythe's One Flat Thing, reproduced. It has received international recognition and was recently selected as a finalist for the Adobe MAX Awards.
The team describes the research as a process in which choreographic ideas are the source of information for the composition of unique visual objects. These objects enable the ideas in the choreography to be quickly grasped in their entirety and suggest new interpretations.
Says Palazzi,"Animation is the core expressive technique that articulates Forsythe’s choreographic intention to the viewer. Artists and scientists working collaboratively on this project used animation techniques such as traditional keyframing, algorithmic and generative approaches to create animation and interactive experiences that reveal Forsythe’s strategies and re-imagine what this dance can look like. These animated manifestations (traces, scores, maps) visualize information in new ways, as an evolving viable research space and as a departure point for conversation and further discussion."
You can view, engage with and learn about the piece at: http://www.synchronousobjects.osu.edu.
You can learn more about the ACCAD at: http://accad.osu.edu/
About the project:
Synchronous Objects is the result of a collaboration between The Forsythe Company, based in Germany, and researchers at The Ohio State University from design, dance, computer science, geography, statistics and architecture who work together at OSU’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD). Maria Palazzi (ACCAD/Department of Design), Norah Zuniga Shaw (ACCAD/Department of Dance) and William Forsythe (The Forsythe Company) served as creative directors for the project.
About ACCAD/OSU:
The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) at Ohio State is a leading academic center for interdisciplinary teaching and research in computer graphics and visualization. The Department of Dance is recognized nationally and internationally for its leadership in choreography, performance, dance documentation, and dance and technology.
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Everyone are welcome to speak.
This will be a fun evening of a number of very short talks consisting of 20 slides shown for 20 seconds each making the talk last for exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds. This is open to anyone so please contact me to participate.
Also, tonight the major software prize, valued at $US2100, will be drawn tonight.
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Note: In order to be eligible for the major software prize, you must have attended at least 3 meeting since the November major software prize draw. Previous major software winners within the last 2 years are ineligible.
Jay Daniel: Black Cat Studio
Clark Olmholt: Spectraflow
Arijit Chatterjee
Program Manager at Adobe Systems
Twitter: http://twitter.com/arijitc
Arijit is the Program Manager for Flex projects in Adobe India. In addition to project management at Adobe, he is currently focused on evangelizing the Adobe Flash Platform. Arijit has a B.E. in Computer Science from R.V College of Engineering, Bangalore and a business degree from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. In the past Arijit has worked in various aspects of engineering system software including compiler backend optimizations, debuggers and virtual machines.
Harish Sivaramakrishnan
Computer Scientist & Evangelist at Adobe Systems
Blog: http://blog.flexgeek.in/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hsivaram
Harish’s association with Adobe Flash started in 1998 and he has been a part of its evolution to its glorious present. Immensely passionate about anything pertaining to Adobe Flash, Harish has donned multiple roles ranging from application development, quality engineering and product engineering at Macromedia / Adobe for the past 5 years. As a platform evangelist at adobe, he works with the developer community helping them appreciate, adopt and excel in Adobe Flash Platform. Harish spends his free time building flex apps, composing music and singing. Harish holds a bachelors degree in chemical engineering from BITS, Pilani.
Hemadri Seelamsetty
Brief bio : Iam RIA enthusiast, Blogger, Passionate Flex Developer....
Blog URL : http://hemadri.com
Guest Speaker in Flex Boot Camps conducted in Hyderabad along with Adobe Evangelist Team. Hemadri has 2.5 years of hands on training experience (4.5 yrs of industry experience with Adobe tools) of various levels of trainees and professionals on Developing RIA’s with Adobe Flex / LCDS / BlazeDS.
He has trained more than 500+ trainees in various organizations like Ahinjay, Satyam, Wipro, Polaris, Keane, GssAmerica, CSC Global, RareTechnologies, ProG9Soft, VarnarSoft
Mrinal Wadhwa
Blog: http://www.mrinalwadha.com
Mrinal Wadhwa, is the Founder of Blu, a stealth mode startup that is taking a user centered approach and rethinking various business process applications used within enterprises. He is involved with some of the latest software User Interface development technologies like Adobe Flex/Flash, Microsoft Silverlight/WPF and HTML5 and is regarded as an expert in the Rich Internet Applications community. He has also been recognized as an SAP Mentor and an Adobe Community Champion.
Mrinal spends a lot of his time thinking about the evolution of software User Interfaces and has more recently been researching and thinking about various techniques of visualizing large data sets. He likes to blog and studies various aspects of Rich Internet Application development on his blog at http:///www.mrinalwadhwa.com
N S Devaraj
Blog: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nsdevaraj
Devaraj is an RIA Architect, specialized in ActionScript and Java. Passionate in user interfaces in general. He is particularly interested in pushing the ActionScript boundaries, with AIR.
Peter Elst
Blog: http://www.peterelst.com/
Peter Elst is a Belgian freelance Flash Platform consultant and Founding Partner of Project Cocoon based in Pondicherry, South India. As a respected member of the online community, Peter has spoken at various international industry events and has had his work published in leading journals. Most recently Peter was the lead author of "Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0" (Friends of ED).
Prashant is a technical evangelist working for Adobe on the Adobe flash platform. He holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science from IIIT-Hyderabad. Prashant honored in Computer vision, having worked under Prof. CV Jawahar (IIIT-H) and Prof. Andrew Zisserman (Oxford University). Before dabbling in flex he has worked mostly on object detection and tracking. When not working, Prashant spends his time playing Basketball, reading a book or going for long runs.
Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan
Sr. Computer Scientist and Evangelist at Adobe Systems
Twitter: http://twitter.com/sriragam
Ramesh has worked on a variety of technologies over 17+ years. He holds an M. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Mumbai. Ramesh has led R&D initiatives at top technology companies and has a wealth of experience working with several product and web 2.0 companies. As an evangelist & senior computer scientist at Adobe, Ramesh leads the evangelism initiatives of Adobe in India. He works closely with the developer community, helping them understand and adopt the power of Adobe's RIA technologies to build the next generation rich internet applications. Ramesh is immensely passionate about computational linguistics and artificial intelligence.
Applications Architect, Blu
Link: http://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabhnarula
Saurabh works as an Applications Architect at a startup called Blu, in the past he has worked with Honeywell Technology Solutions and NetScout System at Bangalore. Saurabh specializes in building enterprise applications with keen interest in the areas of Business Intelligence, Analytics and Data Visualizations. He is passionate about Rich Internet Applications, and has spent most of his time focusing on different RIA Technologies and frameworks. He has much experience with Microsoft Database and BI Technologies, Web technologies like .NET, PHP and RIA frameworks like Adobe Flex. He is also an active member of Adobe Flash and Flex community in India.
When he is away from work, he likes listening to music, interacting at technology forums, reading news and reviews about latest technological innovations.
Shreyas Tonse
Blog: http://flex.tekyt.info
Shreyas is a final Year Student of Information Technology at National Institute of Technology, Karnataka - Surathkal. He is a Web2.0 enthusiast and has been developing applications using Flex with PHP.
Shyamprasad
Technical Evangelist at Adobe Systems
Blog: http://flexedup.wordpress.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/_shyamp_
Shyam P is a technical evangelist at Adobe. He can typically be found totally immersed in ActionScript code, with his headphones blaring of metal music. Apart from being a flex fanatic, Shyam’s interests also lie in the fields of number theory and graph theory. He holds a B. Tech in computer science and engineering from NIT Calicut.
Sujit Reddy G
Technical Evangelist at Adobe Systems
Blog: http://sujitreddyg.wordpress.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/sujitg
Sujit Reddy G is a Technical Evangelist for Flash Platform at Adobe. Combining expertise in Flex, J2EE, and PHP, he specializes in building enterprise applications on the Adobe Flash Platform and has a blog focusing on the integration of Adobe Flex with Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES and BlazeDS at http://sujitreddyg.wordpress.com.Sujit holds a bachelors degree in civil engineering and masters degree in economics from BITS, Pilani.
Uday M. Shankar
Principal Engineer, Prototyping at Yahoo! R&D
Blog: http://udayms.wordpress.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/udayms
Uday M. Shankar is a Principal Engineer, Prototyping with Yahoo! R&D - Bangalore. He is currently working on Mobile and Web User Experience Prototyping. Before Yahoo!, he was with Nokia's Service Experience team working on Ovi.com and related services. He has an overall UX background of around ten years in the space of UI design/ development, Wireframes and Prototyping. Prior to Nokia, he was leading the UX team in Extreme Networks. Having learnt his basics in HCI from IIT-B and HFI, he has extensive experience in RIA technologies and Mobile/Web User Interfaces.
Yash Mody
CTO, Tekno Point Multimedia
Blog: http://teknopoint.wordpress.com
Yash started his IT career as a Java Programmer coding in Java Swing and switched to Adobe Flash Platform about 3 years ago. He has been a Trainer and Architect for Adobe Flash Platform based applications and has been a UI consultant for various organizations. He and his team primarily focus on technologies like Flash, Flex and ColdFusion in the Flash Platform paradigm.

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