Bill Thibault received a
B.S. in Computer Science from the University of New Orleans in 1981,
and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Information and Computer Science from the
Georgia Institute of Technology
in 1985 and 1987.
(Thesis title: "Application of Binary Space Partitioning Trees
to Geometric Modeling and Ray-Tracing")
As a Ph.D. candidate he worked at
Bell Labs (now Lucent Technologies) in Murray Hill, NJ.
Upon graduation, he took his current position on the faculty
of the
Department of Math and Computer Science at
California State University, East Bay.
His work has been presented at
SIGGRAPH conferences,
and is described in numerous textbooks on Computer Graphics.
Since arriving at CSUH, he has
helped to establish the
Multimedia MA program.
Currently he's working with the College of Science's
CompCore
cyberinfrastructure project.
He designed and built
3D audio mixer control software,
and has built several electronic musical instruments.
He has produced the beautiful Jacqueline with his wife Alice.
"Inexpensive Immersive Projection," Nancy P.Y. Yuen and William C. Thibault, Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (VR 2008) (Reno, NV, USA, March 2008).
"A genetic algorithm for solving the camera-projector alignment problem," Johnson, C.M., Bhat, A.P., and Thibault W., Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '06) (Seattle, WA, USA, July 8-12, 2006), Morgan-Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA, 2006.
``Grabbo by Tebo Software,'' in The BeOS Bible, Scott Hacker, Peachpit Press, 1999.
``Experiences in Digital Terrain,'' Bill Thibault and Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Leonardo Music Journal, Volume 7, MIT Press, 1997.
``Songlines.DEM,'' Bill Thibault and Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Proceedings of the 1992 International Computer Music Conference, San Jose, Oct 1992.
``Set Operations on Polyhedra Using Binary Space Partitioning Trees,'' (Video) William C. Thibault and Bruce F. Naylor, SIGGRAPH Video Review 26, 1987.
``Set Operations on Polyhedra Using Binary Space Partitioning Trees,'' William C. Thibault and Bruce F. Naylor, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Technical Memorandum TM 11386-870113-01TM, January, 1987.
``Application of BSP Trees to Ray-Tracing and CSG Evaluation,'' Bruce F. Naylor and William C. Thibault, Tech. Report GIT-ICS 86/03, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, February 1986.
``Architecture for a Global Operating System,'' M.S. McKendry, J.E. Allchin, and W.C. Thibault, IEEE INFOCOM 83, San Diego, April 1983.
``Class Constructs in Hardware Simulations'' (abstract), William J. Mitchell and William C. Thibault, 1981 ACM Computer Science Conference, St. Louis, February 1981.
"Camera-based Projector Calibration" presented at the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise, jointly with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, May 27, 2008.
"Compcore: Cyberinfrastructure for Interdisciplinary Research," presented at the Special Session on Interfacing Computer Science and Biotechnology at the 20th Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium, Oakland, CA, Jan 11, 2008.
Performances with Very Important Now
"Variations II," by John Cage, with The Hub, Mills College, February 96. See the video at Crossfade site or here
"Terrain Reader," computer music lecture/performance, Interactive Sound Studio, Exploratorium, San Francisco, Summer 94.
"Bill and Jim Play Along with the Electroacoustic Masters," with Jim Horton, audio recording, Frog Peak Music, 1994.
"Gorgeous Clothed Flies," by 4D City; "Cult 45," by Guns For Tibet, videotapes, Jerry Hunt Memorial Concert, San Diego, April 94. "Terrain Reader," interactive computer music installation, CSUH Art Gallery, Hayward, April 94.
"Songlines.DEM," interactive computer music installation, International Computer Music Festival, Spartan Chapel, San Jose State Univerisity, San Jose, Oct 92.
"Terrain Broadcast," with Scot Gresham-Lancaster, live 5-hour computer music broadcast from KPFA-FM, Berkeley, Aug 91 and Sept 92.
"Pink Pleasure," with Barbara Golden, multimedia performance, Electronic Music Plus Festival, Mills College, Oakland, 91; CSU Hayward, 90.
"Pink Pleasure," with Barbara Golden, videotape, Electroacoustic Days, Concordia Univ., Montreal, 92.
"ROBOSAX," with Gabriel Stern, lecture/demonstration, Songlines, Mills College, Oakland, Feb 92.
"Bongos and Poetry," with K. Atchley and B.Golden, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, 91.