Perry Kivolowitz
Perry Kivolowitz (born 1961) is an American computer scientist and business person. In 1985, he co-founded Advanced Systems Design Group which built hardware for the Commodore Amiga. This company was renamed Elastic Reality, Inc. and became well known as a digital imaging software provider. In 1995 this company sold to Avid Technology, Inc.[1]
In 1996 he received an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement for the invention of shape-driven warping and morphing as exemplified in the Avid Elastic Reality package once in widespread use.[2] Dr. Garth Dickie was a co-recipient of this award. The invention is noteworthy in that it provided a means of creating warping and morphing effects using an interface which was more optimized for the user rather than the computation. The award reads:
"These components form the core of an efficient and easy-to-use system that greatly simplifies the creation of shape-changing visual effects in motion pictures."— Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Perry is a principal in SilhouetteFX LLC. He co-founded Profound Effects, Inc. (2001–2008), Hypercosm Inc. (1999–2001) and KSK Electrics, LLC (2013–present). Perry was accepted into the Visual Effects Society [3] in 2012.
From 1997 to 1999 and from 2006 to 2015, Perry was a member of the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, first as an adjunct faculty member and then as a Faculty Associate and Instructional Program Director. During the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Sesquicentennial Celebration, Mr. Kivolowitz was honored as being one of the 150 Ways the University of Wisconsin has Touched the World.[4]
Perry lectured for AT&T and Bell Labs in the early 1980s on Unix Internals and debugging primarily at an AT&T facility in Piscataway New Jersey but also across the country. In April 2012, Perry resumed lecturing on the process of debugging[5]
As a graduate student Kivolowitz authored one of the earliest key logger programs, the source code of which was posted to Usenet in November 1983.[6] Mr. Kivolowitz authored an early paper on file systems for write-once media presented at the 1984 USENIX conference in Salt Lake City.[7]
As a co-founder of ASDG Incorporated (later Elastic Reality, Inc.) Kivolowitz invented the recoverable ram drive[8][9]
Since 2004 Perry has been an invited speaker and provides expert testimony on the subject of detecting tampered digital images (both still images and video).
Published in 2013,[10] "Get Off My L@wn" is a novel in the zombie fiction genre. The book describes a technologist's unique approach to surviving zombie hordes.
In 2006, Mr. Kivolowitz wed Sara Krueger Kivolowitz. He is currently a computer science professor at Carthage College.
Patents
- 5881321 Camera motion sensing system[11]
- 5754180 Computer system and process for defining and manipulating images using structured objects with variable edge characteristics[12]
- 5077604 Color printing, correction can conversion apparatus and method[13]
References
- ↑ "Milwaukee Sentinel - March 30, 1995". Retrieved 2015-06-14.
- ↑ "Variety: Lucky 13 get March 1 salute for inventions". Retrieved 2015-05-29.
- ↑ "Visual Effects Society Membership Directory". Retrieved 2012-12-18.
- ↑ "150 Ways the University of Wisconsin - Madison has Touched the World" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-10-02.
- ↑ "Discourses and Dialogs on Debugging". Retrieved 2015-03-05.
- ↑ "The Security Digest Archives". Retrieved 2009-11-22.
- ↑ "Optical Storage Management under the UNIX Operating System". Retrieved 2014-10-02.
- ↑ "ASDG Recoverable Ram Disk News". Retrieved 2014-09-23.
- ↑ "Fish Disk 58 Contents". Retrieved 2014-09-23.
- ↑ "Get Off My L@wn".
- ↑ "Camera motion sensing system".
- ↑ "Computer system and process for defining and manipulating images using structured objects with variable edge characteristics".
- ↑ "Color printing, correction can conversion apparatus and method".