AWE USA 2026
Dr. Julian E. Gomez received his doctorate from The Ohio State University where he authored a publicly available computer animation system, twixt. twixt was used for a number of animations shown at SIGGRAPH and was the primary computer animation tool used by the OSU Computer Graphics Research Group, Cranston/Csuri Productions, and other studios worldwide. He founded MacroMind Three-D, was Principal Engineer for Apple Computer QuickDraw 3-D, Chief Scientist at LEGO, a Senior Scientist at NASA working on Digital Shuttle, and helped with many startups. Julian recently founded the nonprofit Computer Graphics History Institute, a comprehensive virtual knowledgebase of CG history managed and accessed with XR based on cognitive science.