Michael Gleicher
Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin, Madison

gleicher@cs.wisc.edu

I am a not so new anymore faculty member. In our department, I am a "graphics" guy, but I really like to dabble in a number of things, including computer animation, visualization, user interfaces, and computer vision. I founded the UW Graphics Group to do these kinds of things.

My main technical interest over the past few has been computer animation. Specifically, the creation of motion for character animation by motion capture and motion editing. I am interested in animation for interactive applications, such as computer games.

My other current projects are "Image and Video Retargeting" and Structural Bioinformatics and Visualization. The retargeting project aims to develop method for transforming pictures and video so that it is more effective when displayed on different displays. The structural biology projects aim to help scientists understand how the relationship between structure (the shape of proteins) and function.

I like to teach things that I love to do. Here I'm teaching Sam (2 3/4 in January of 2008) to ski in Vail.

This picture of my son Sam (2 years old in April 2007), my wife Julie and I was taken in Vail in January of 2007. I have more pictures these days than I know what to do with. It gives me new research problems to think about.

Over the past few years, I've had the opportunity to do lots of traveling and have taken lots of pictures. Few are organized well enough to be put on the web. Some pictures from my Fall 2002 China trip are slowly being organized. But you're probably most interested in the wierd food.

My travel and photography now is influenced by my son, Sam. This picture shows an experiment of introducing a 3 month old baby to the Atlantic Ocean in Florida.