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).
My mother still live there.
My younger brother Paul lives in New York City, is married to
Marti Cooney, and has a band called
Cab City Combo.
My youngest brother Richard lives in Alexandria, Virginia and is
married to Alana Landey.
For way more detail than you ever want to know, here are some family trees in which I appear:
Newman
Rubin
Lansky
Bronsky
Carrel
My college years were spent in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1970 to 1978).
I went to Carnegie-Mellon University back when there
was a hyphen between the words "Carnegie" and "Mellon".
I got a BS in Math (1974), MS in Computer Science (1976), and PhD in Computer Science (1978).
After school, I worked for Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey,
doing graphics research (1978 to 1981).
I moved to the Bay Area of California in 1981.
At first, I worked for Schlumberger/Fairchild,
doing VLSI CAD research (this is where I first wrote Electric).
From 1988 to 1997, I worked at Apple Computer
where I built 3D graphics systems.
In 1997, I was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of
Electric Editor Incorporated.
From 1998 to 1999 I consulted for Interval Research.
From 1999 to 2002 I consulted for Sun Microsystems
and in 2002 became a fulltime employee.
In 2010, Sun was acquired by Oracle
and that is my current employer.
Publications
- "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.
Steven M. Rubin (strubin@rulabinsky.com)
