Word: upson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing need for electronic imagery rises from the sheer number- crunching power of computers like those shown in Santa Clara. Says Craig Upson, a graphics specialist who last August left a commercial animation firm to join the staff of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois: "You find yourself lost in this maze of data because suddenly you can compute far more than you can comprehend." The route to comprehension, he says, is to turn the numbers into images...
...simulations of planetary flybys: "Sometimes a half- baked idea gets printed up prettily and gets more attention than it deserves." Still, Blinn believes, as long as the scientific data used to generate the images are accurate, computer graphics can prod scientists to move in exciting new directions. NCSA's Upson agrees. "If we play our cards right," he says, "we may actually make a dent in how people do science...
Unlike John and friends--who left before the third period--Mrs. Joan Upson stayed for the entire game. But she didn't look too pleased about...
...Upson didn't seem to be around, however. Mrs. Upson explained that he was in the men's room--not using the facilities but simply keeping warm...
...Upson will supervise accounting, budgets, and the physical facilities...