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Professor Markus Gross, Head of Computer Graphics Lab at ETH Zurich and
Co-Me project leader, has been appointed Director of the new Disney Research
Lab at ETH Zurich. The lab will be one of two newly-created industrial
laboratories worldwide and the only Disney-related laboratory outside of the
United States.
The second Disney Research lab will be located at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US). The aim of the two laboratories is to conduct
applied research in computer animation, geometric modeling, computational
photography, image generation, video processing, artificial intelligence,
robotics and related fields. Joint Ph. D. projects and research contracts, as
well as teaching services from senior Disney researchers, are part of the
advantages and synergies to be drawn from the collaboration.
The laboratory in Zurich will engage up to ten senior principal
investigators over the collaboration's initial five year period. With a total
staff of about 20 people, the lab will also engage professors, post docs,
consultants, academic collaborators and Disney engineers. Disney Research will
open its doors in Zurich in October 2008.
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