Talk: The history of Creative AI

Biography:
Dr. Eric Risser is the Founder and CTO of Artomatix, the leader in building Creative AI solutions for Entertainment and Enterprise. Eric brings his expertise in the combined fields of artificial intelligence and computer graphics to lead both the vision and the core technology development at Artomatix where he's filed patents, published papers and brought ArtEngine, the flagship product of Artomatix to market. 

Eric's passion is for the pursuit of creativity, the theory behind what it is and why it exists, dissecting the problem by creating the algorithms that themselves create. Eric's pursued this singular goal through his masters at Columbia University, PhD at Trinity College Dublin and now through Artomatix.

Eric has authored multiple SIGGRAPH papers, given talks at various high profile events and won many awards including one giant $100,000 foam novelty check from Nvidia. When Dr. Eric Risser is not writing bios in the third person, he enjoys snowboarding and volunteering his time to help animals. He will pet any dog he passes by on the street.