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1st International Symposium on Interactive Cinema (ICS 2006)

Enabling A Credible Discussion on Artistic, Production and Technical Issues for Creating an Interactive Feature Film

Monday July 31st Tentative Schedule

Time	Speaker	Presentation Title
1:00 - 6:00	Registration

Tuesday August 1st Tentative Schedule

Time	Speaker	Presentation Title
7:00 - 9:30		Registration
	Session Chair	Peter Hofstee IBM
8:45 - 9:00	Welcome / Agenda	Habib Zargarpour Electronic Arts Habib will demo Rudy Poat's work utilizing "RT-Cinema" techniques on the Trapped Ashes Project
9:00 - 10:00	Moderator: George Bosworth	Discussion: What Exactly Is Interactive Cinema? Peter Hofstee (IBM) Kim Libreri (ILM) Attila Vass (SCEI US R&D) Habib Zargarpour (Electronic Arts)
10:00 - 10:30	Attila Vass Sony CEI R&D	The GScube and It's Legacy
10:30 - 10:45	Break
10:45 - 11:45	Moderator: Habib Zargarpour Christophe Hery	Discussion: How Can Multi-Core Chip Architectures Better Enable Interactive Cinema Peter Hofstee (IBM) Pradeep Dubey (Intel)
11:45 - 12:30	Lunch
	Session Chair	Barton Gawboy mental images
12:30 - 1:30	Kim Libreri Keynote ILM	Convergence of Games and Feature Film, A Reality Check
1:30 - 2:00	Lance Williams	Virtual Believable Humans
2:00 - 2:30	Chris White Weta Digital	Procedural City Generation in King Kong
2:30 - 3:30	Moderator: Habib Zargarpour Yahya H. Mirza	Panel: Radically Impacting the Production Process Through Advanced Procedural Techniques and New Asset Description Languages George Bosworth (Independent) Johnny Gibson (Digital Domain) Pascal Mueller (ETH Zurich) Ken Perlin (New York University) Chris White (Weta Digital)
3:30 - 3:35	Yahya H. Mirza	Tuesday Wrapup

Wednesday August 2nd Tentative Schedule

Time	Speaker	Presentation Title
7:00 - 9:30		Registration
8:45 - 9:00	Yahya H. Mirza Aurora Borealis Software LLC	Welcome / Agenda
9:00 - 10:00	George Bosworth Keynote Independent	Design Issues for Future Language Based Interactive Cinema Authoring Tools
10:00 - 10:30	Steve Keele Former Senior modeler for Viewpoint Datalabs	Frankensteining: An Artist Perspective of Reusable Character Construction
10:30 - 10:45	Break
10:45 - 12:15	Moderator: Haarm-Pieter Duiker	Convergence of Game Engines and Film Quality Rendering Systems Rolf Herken (mental images) Drew Hess (Industrial Light & Magic) Gabor Nagy (Sony CEI R&D) Clint Hanson (Electronic Arts)
12:15 - 1:15	Lunch
1:15 - 1:45	Joe Alter Joseph Alter, Inc	Procedural Techniques, Hair and Fur
1:45 - 2:45	Moderator: Yahya H. Mirza	Real-Time Guided CFD / Simulation Panel Jim Hourihan (Tweak Films) Frank Petterson (ILM)
2:45 - 3:15	John Bates Sony CEI R&D	The SPU Runtime System
3:15 - 3:30	Break
3:30 - 4:00	Dhabaleswar Panda OSU	An InfiniBand Based Messaging Model for Multicore Clusters
4:00 - 5:30	Moderator: Yahya H. Mirza	Could a Petascale Computing System Enable An Interactive Computer Animated Feature Film? Attila Vass (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. R&D)
5:30 - 5:45	Habib Zargarpour	Wrapup