Steven M. Rubin

How I Got Here

I was born in 1952, and grew up in northern New Jersey (yes, that's me, age 2). I have two younger brothers, Paul (who passed in 2015) and Richard (who lives in Alexandria, Virginia and is married to Alana Landey).

I graduated from Millburn High School in 1970 and went to Carnegie-Mellon University back when there was a hyphen between the words “Carnegie” and “Mellon.” I earned a BS in Math (1974), MS in Computer Science (1976), and PhD in Computer Science (1978).

Then I went to work:

• 1978-1981: Bell Labs, Holmdel, New Jersey. Graphics research.
• 1981-1988: Schlumberger/Fairchild, Palo Alto, California. VLSI CAD research (where I first wrote Electric).
• 1988-1996: Apple Computer, Cupertino, California. 3D graphics research.
• 1997: Electric Editor, Incorporated, Los Gatos, California. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer doing CAD development.
• 1998-1999: Interval Research, Palo Alto, California. VR Consultant and psychic research.
• 1999-2009: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, California. Consultant until 2002, fulltime CAD research after that.
• 2010-2017: Oracle, Redwood Shores, California. CAD research.

Publications

• Rock Con Roll (as Sage Ardman), R.L. Ranch Press, Portola Valley, California, 2017.
• The Fiery Boys (as Sage Ardman), R.L. Ranch Press, Portola Valley, California, 2016.
• Seductive Synchronicity (as Sage Ardman), R.L. Ranch Press, Portola Valley, California, 2015.
• I'll Get You My Pretty (as Sage Ardman), R.L. Ranch Press, Portola Valley, California, 2014.
• Executive Sweet (as Sage Ardman), R.L. Ranch Press, Portola Valley, California, 2013.
• “A Physical Design Tool for Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor Circuits” (with Jiale Huang, Minhao Zhu, Shengqi Yang, Pallav Gupta, Wei Zhang, Gilda Garretón, and Jin He), ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC), 2012.
• “A Real-Time Low-Latency Hardware Light-Field Renderer”, (with Matthew Regan, Gavin Miller, and Chris Kogelnik), Computer Graphics Proceedings (Siggraph 99), 287-290, August 1999.
• “Lazy Decompression of Surface Light Fields for Precomputed Global Illumination”, (with Gavin Miller and Dulce Ponceleon), Proceedings, 9th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, (Drettakis & Max, eds.), 281-292, June 1998.
• “A General-Purpose Framework for CAD Algorithms”, IEEE Communications, Special Issue on Communications and VLSI, May 1991.
• “The Association of Textual and Graphical Circuit Descriptions, and Other Hard Problems in Computer-Aided Design”, Proceedings, CCVLSI - 87, Winnipeg, October 1987.
• Computer Aids for VLSI Design, Addison-Wesley, Reading Massachusetts, 1987.
• “An Integrated Aid for Top-Down Electrical Design”, Proceedings, VLSI '83 (Anceau and Aas, eds.), North Holland, Amsterdam, 1983.
• “An Integrated Aid for Top-Down Electrical Design”, Proceedings, ICCAD - 83, IEEE Computer Society Order No 518, September 1983.
• “The Representation and Display of Scenes with a Wide Range of Detail”, Computer Graphics and Image Processing 19, 1982.
• “Natural Scene Recognition Using Locus Search”, Computer Graphics and Image Processing 13, 1980.
• “A Three-Dimensional Representation for Fast Rendering of Complex Scenes” (with Turner Whitted), Computer Graphics 14, 3, August 1980.
• “The ARGOS Image Understanding System”, (Ph.D. Thesis) C-MU Technical Report, 1978.
• “Representation of Three-Dimensional Objects” (with Raj Reddy), C-MU Technical Report, 1978.
• “Harp, A Low-Cost 25 MIPS Digital Processor” (with Stan Kriz, Raj Reddy, Brian Rosen, and Steve Saunders), C-MU Technical Report, 1978.
• “The LOCUS Model of Search and its Use in Image Interpretation” (with Raj Reddy), Proceedings of 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 1977.
• “Graphics Display Processor Users Manual”, C-MU Technical Report, 1976, 1978.
• “BRAILLEII, A Grade II Braille Transcription Program”, Carnegie Technical, 1974.