Eric Veach

Eric Veach is a Canadian computer scientist, and who won two technical Academy Awards.[1][2]

Eric Veach
NationalityCanada
OccupationComputer scientist
Known forAcademy award winner, S2 geohashing.

He won his 2014 Academy Award for work in colour perception, as applied to computer graphics, described in his 1997 PhD thesis.[1][3] He told CTV News he hadn't done any work in computer graphics for 15 years. Veach had worked at Pixar, but, more recently, he had been a senior developer at Google.[2]

His PhD thesis, Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation, is highly cited.[3]

In 2008, the University of Waterloo, the institution where he earned his Bachelor of Mathematics, in 1990, awarded him a J. W. Graham Medal, an annual award granted to a distinguished alumnus who had studied computer science there.[2] His PhD is from Stanford University.

Veach is a strong believer in environmental causes and serves as the chair of the Rainforest Trust board.[4]

Farhad Manjoo named Veach and two of his non-American colleagues, at Google, in an article entitled, "Why Silicon Valley Wouldn’t Work Without Immigrants".[5] Manjoo's article attempted to explain why newly inaugurated President Donald Trump's attempts to squeeze off the flow of immigrants to the US was dangerous. He argued that America disproportionately benefits from allowing intellectual foreigners like Veach to find work.

Veach is the primary developer of Google's S2 geometry for geohashing.[6]

References
  1. Cassandra Szlarski (2014-02-21). "Canuck computer whiz nabs 2 Academy Awards for movie innovation". CTV News. Archived from the original on 2014-02-26.
  2. "Eric Veach: Distinguished Software Engineer, Google Inc., 2008 recipient of the J.W. Graham Medal". University of Waterloo. Archived from the original on 2015-09-27. Retrieved 2017-04-25. Prior to Google, Eric developed computer graphics software for Pixar Animation Studios (with credits in three movies).
  3. Eric Veach (December 1997). "Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation". Stanford University. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
  4. "Dr. Eric Veach". Rainforest Trust. Retrieved 2017-04-25. As an early employee at Google, he led the development of the AdWords advertising platform and various components of Google Maps including the directions system.
  5. Farhad Manjoo (2017-02-08). "Why Silicon Valley Wouldn't Work Without Immigrants". New York Times. San Francisco. p. B1. Retrieved 2017-04-25. If you want to understand why tech employees went to the mat against Mr. Trump’s executive order barring immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, you need to first understand the crucial role that America’s relatively open immigration policies play in the tech business.
  6. https://s2geometry.io/about/overview
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