Awards and Honors

• Emmy Award, 2019. Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development, for Sapphire Plug-ins visual effects software.

• MacArthur "Genius" Grant, 1998-2002. Five year fellowship awarded for "extraordinary originality and dedication in creative pursuits" by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

• Award for Video Math, Berlin Video Math Festival, 1998, for "Evolved Virtual Creatures."

• Motorola Imaginology Award, Interactive Media Festival, 1997, for "Genetic Images."

• Creativity Award, Interactive Media Festival, 1997, for "Genetic Images."

• Special Prize of the Jury, Imagina 1993, Monte Carlo, for "Liquid Selves,"

• First Place Award for Technology, National Computer Graphics Association 1993 Video Theater, for "Liquid Selves."

• International Competition Prize Winner, 6th Berlin Video Festival 1993, for "Liquid Selves."

• Grand Prize, Golden Nica Animation Award, ARS Electronica 1992, Linz Austria, for both "Primordial Dance" and "Liquid Selves."

• Grand Prize for Art & Entertainment, NICOGRAPH 1992, Tokyo Japan, for "Liquid Selves."

• First Prize for Art, Images du Futur 1992, 6th International Computer Animation Competition, Montreal, for "Primordial Dance."

• First Prize for Science, Computer Animation 1992, Geneva, Switzerland, for "Primordial Dance."

• Award for Research, Imagina 1992 Pixel INA Awards Show, Monte Carlo, for "Primordial Dance."

• Award for Research, National Computer Graphics Association 1992, for "Primordial Dance."

• Technological Innovation Award, Computer Animation 1992, Fifth Internation Computer Film Festival, University of Geneva, for "Primordial Dance."

• First Prize, Eurographics 1992, Cambridge, England, for "Primordial Dance."

• Special Credit Award, Computer Animation Festival, Aizu, Japan, 1991, for "Primordial Dance."

• First Prize for 3D Computer Graphics, Imagina 1991 Pixel INA Awards, Monte Carlo, for "Panspermia."

• Grand Prize, Golden Nica Animation Award, ARS-Electronica 1991, Linz, Austria, for "Panspermia."

• Winner of "Jet d'Or" Award, International Conference of Computer Animation 1991, Geneva Switzerland, for "Panspermia."

• Special Prize of the Jury, Fifth International Festival of Computer Graphics Films of Montreal 1990, for "Panspermia".

• "Best of the Festival" at Berlin VideoFest 1991, "Panspermia."

• Award for Theatrical Motion Picture, National Computer Graphics Association 1991 Video Theater, for "Panspermia."

• Final piece (Best in show), Siggraph 1990 Film and Video show, "Panspermia."

• First Prize for Research, Imagina 1989, Monte Carlo, for "Particle Dreams."

• Prize of the Public, Images du Futur 1989, Monteal, for "Particle Dreams."

• Final piece (Best in show), Siggraph 1988 Film and Video show, "Particle Dreams."

• "Random Array Sensing Devices," Patent #4574311, issued March 1986.

• "Method of Simulating Additional Processors in a SIMD Parallel Processor Array," Patent #4773038, issued September 1988.

• "Virtual Processor Techniques," Patent #4829403, issued May 1989.

• "System and Method for Creating and Evolving Directed Graphs," Patent #5511158, issued April 1996.

• "Computer System and Method for Generating and Mutating Objects by Iterative Evolution," Patent #6088510, issued July 2000.

• "Video Field Artifact Removal," Patent #6734916, issued May 2004.

• "Sharing of Presets for Visual Effects or other Computer-implemented Effects," Patent #8667016, issued March 2014.

• "Filters and Functions using Exponential Decay," Patent #9064299, issued June 2015.

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