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- Michael J. McGuffin, Ph.D.
- This is my old website; please visit
my new website at ETS. (Automatic redirection in 60 seconds.)
- As of September 2007,
Michael McGuffin is an Assistant Professor
("Professeur adjoint"; tenure track;
conducting research, teaching, and supervision of graduate students)
at ETS
("École de technologie supérieure",
a French-language engineering school
within the
University of Quebec),
in the
Department of Software and IT Engineering,
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
His research interests lie in
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI),
currently focusing on information visualization.
He
was previously a post-doctoral researcher at the
Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI; Division of Signaling Biology),
working on visualization and user interfaces for bioinformatics,
within Dr. Igor Jurisica's lab.
He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science
at the University of Toronto,
where his homebase was the
Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP) lab,
and where his advisor was
Prof. Ravin Balakrishnan.
He also holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.)
in Computer Science from University of Toronto,
and an Honours Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.)
in Computer Engineering with Software Engineering Option
from the University of Waterloo.
He also has over 3 years of experience developing user interfaces
at software companies, including Alias|wavefront in Toronto
and Discreet Logic in Montreal
(both companies now part of Autodesk).
He hails from
Chibougamau,
Quebec, Canada;
enjoys living in a trilingual household;
and on special occasions can be found singing mediocre karaoke.
Publications, video demonstrations, and other information are at
http://www.dgp.utoronto.ca/~mjmcguff/.
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- research and publications
- academic investigations into
visualization and human-computer interaction
- experimental graphic design
- explorations of the computer as a medium
for artistic expression
- programming projects
- a gallery of code
- other things here:
- nested radicals
- turning a sphere inside-out
- how to learn OpenGL
- tips on writing 3D code
- java applet tutorial
- folding in vim
- how to edit X11 fonts
- kailangan kita
- Banawa mania
- my favourite mousepad
- my Erdös number
- the McGuffin name
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