Tony DeRose to speak at Blk Shp STEAM event

CS alumnus Tony DeRose (Ph.D. ’85), currently a senior scientist and lead researcher at Pixar, will speak at Indiana University on Saturday for a STEAM event sponsored by Blk Shp, a “loose guild” of socially conscious innovators.  DeRose works with a Young Makers Program that supports youth in “building ambitious, hand-on projects” and is also involved with “Pixar in a Box,” a collaboration with Khan Academy designed to show students how creative challenges at Pixar are addressed using concepts they are learning in classrooms.  DeRose received the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 1999 and won a Scientific and Technical Academy Award for his work on surface representations in 2006.