Alex Betts
Research Programmer

Office: 2032 NCSA
Phone: (217) 244-2169
Email: @
Home Page: http://

Education
BFA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Areas of Expertise
Interactive computer graphics
Software development
3D computer animation

 

Projects
IntelliBadge
Hunt for the Supertwister
Monster of the Milky Way
MBARI visualizations
VMaya
Maya Data Visualization Tools (mdvt)

 

Publications
Matthew Hall, Alex Betts, Donna Cox, David Pointer, Volodymyr Kindratenko. "The Visible Radio: Process Visualization of Software- Defined Radio." Forthcoming.

Alex Betts, Donna Cox, Robin Dhamankar, Tony Kaap, Volodymyr Kindratenko, Albert Khakshour, Lorne Leonard, Stuart Levy, John Martirano, Robert Patterson, Mary Pietrowicz, David Pointer, Jennifer Powell, Paul Rajlich, Daniel Reed, Anna Rovedo, Barry Sanders, Michael Shapiro, Alan Shih. "SC Gets Smart: IntelliBadgeô at SC2002," Technical report, January 18, 2003.

Brady, Rachael, Alex Betts. "Multimodal Fusion Architectures," Summary of Findings from the Army Research Lab's Advanced Displays & Interactive Displays Federated Laboratory. Rockwell Scientific, 2001.

Bargar, Robin, Alex Betts, Insook Choi, and Kelly Fitz. "Models and Deformations in Procedural Synchronous Sound for Animation," International Computer Music Conference, August 2000, Berlin, Germany.

Bargar, Robin, Francois Dechelle, Insook Choi, Alex Betts, Camille Goudeseune, Nobert schnell, Olivier Warusfel, "Coney Island: combining jMax, Spat and VSS for acoustic integration of spatial and temporal models in a virtual reality installation," International Computer Music Conference, August 2000, Berlin, Germany.

Bargar, Robin, Insook Choi, and Alex Betts. "ScoreGraph: a Software Architecture for Rapid Configuration of Multi-modal Interaction in Distributed Virtual Environments." ARL Federated Laboratory Advanced Displays and Interactive Displays Consortium, Advanced Displays and Interactive Displays Third Annual Symposium, February, 1999, College Park, MD.

Choi, Insook, Alex Betts, "ScoreGraph : dynamically activated connectivity among parallel processes for interactive computer music performance," International Computer Music Conference, August, 1998, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

 

Exhibitions and Presentations
October 2006 - Software tool development and shot development for astrophysical visualization in “Monster of the Milky Way”, a NOVA episode about black holes broadcast 10/31/2006.

February 2006 ­ Software tool development for astrophysical visualization in “Black Holes”, a dome show for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

August 2005 ­ Visualization for “Hunt for the Supertwister” presented in SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater.

April 2004 - Software development for scientific visualization used in NOVA episode "Hunt for the Supertwister."

August 2001 - SIGGRAPH Demonstration for Sun Microsystems. Created an application that demonstrated the realtime graphics and sound capabilities of the Sun Blade product line.

May 2000 - "Voices in Ruins," an interactive sound exhibit, installed in the Dorsky Gallery in New York City. Contributed graphic design, video production, computer animation, and software engineering.

July 1999 - Interactive virtual reality installation "Coney Island" shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

April 1999 - Virtual reality performance piece "Coney Island" presented at the 1999 Columbia University Interactive Arts Festival in New York City.

September 1998 - March 1999 - Interactive installation piece "Ground Truth" presented at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.

July 1998 - "Music for Unprepared Piano," computer animation featured in the SIGGRAPH 98 Electronic Theater.

September 1997 - Virtual reality performance piece "Rolling Stone" presented at the International Symposium of Electronic Arts in Chicago, Illinois.

March 1997 - Virtual reality performance piece "Machine Child" shown at Cyberfest in Urbana, Illinois.

August 1996 - Computer animation piece "Music for Unprepared Piano" used in course at SIGGRAPH 96.