Drew Hess San Francisco, CA email: homepage@drewhess.com Jabber: dhess@bothan.net OpenPGP key

Currently

Seeking Haskell enlightenment.

Previously

I taught 3 semesters of Bootstrap at middle schools in Daly City and Oakland, and a couple of Scratch classes in Oakland.

I volunteered at a local middle school, helping them improve their GNU/Linux lab.

I developed the real-time lighting component of the Industrial Light & Magic Zviz previz system. You can read a bit about it here.

I also worked with Lucasarts on real-time lighting and material systems for use both in Lucasarts's new game engines and in ILM's 3D animation system. You can read a little about that work here and judge for yourself in Lucasarts's The Force Unleashed.

Prior to those projects, I worked at ILM mainly on real-time multimedia playback and image processing, and did a small amount of Linux kernel hacking.

I was a microprocessor architect at Intel, working on the Intel/HP Itanium architecture.

Elsewhere

Photos on SmugMug

Travel photos on Flickr.

Notes to self on Twitter.

My personal wiki: projects, notes, how-to's, etc.

Facebook

Google Profile

Free Software Projects

• Sxcrape, a SXSW Music Showcase schedule scraper.
• wwdcc, yet another WWDC announcement service.
• I maintained the OpenEXR free software project from its initial release in 2003 until 2006. I'm no longer actively involved in the project.
• I wrote a parser for the United States Senate LD-1/LD-2 lobbying disclosure database. From time to time a journalist or policy researcher finds it useful.
• I've written a handful of other random free software projects, all of which are available at GitHub.

Published

• "The OpenEXR File Format," Florian Kainz, Rod Bogart and Drew Hess. GPU Gems, 2004.
• OS and compiler considerations in the design of the IA-64 architecture, Rumi Zahir, Jonathan Ross, Dale Morris and Drew Hess. ASPLOS 2000.

Presented

• HDR in Film Production, part of Paul Debevec's HDR course at SIGGRAPH 2006.
• OpenEXR Image File Format, a sketch at SIGGRAPH 2003.

Trivia

A couple of film credits.

I was an (uncredited) extra in the Outlander Club scene in Star Wars Episode II. I didn't get my own action figure, sadly.

My Bacon number is 2 (via Michael Ienna).

OpenPGP Key ID

My key is available on most public servers. I have older keys that have expired or been revoked, so use this one:

pub   2048R/069BEC1F 2011-08-24
      Key fingerprint = CF5D 6281 1806 D85B 4BCF  0724 67B5 6FC8 069B EC1F
sub   2048R/58F5FF2D 2011-08-24 [expires: 2013-08-23]