Will Anielewicz

Will has been playing with computers since 1967. After completing an Honors Computer Science degree at York University in 1974, he was a multi-discipline Masters candidate combining Fine Arts, Computer Science and Philosophy. The mandate was to create a computer graphics piano that could be used in live concert performances. In 1976 Will had one of the world's first exhibitions of computer graphic art, at a Toronto Canada art gallery. In 1982 Will was hired as the first employee of Alias Research the creator of Maya. Since then, Will has worked on 14 feature films (such as "Phantom Menace") and several award-winning commercials. Will now works for Imagination Technologies in the PowerVR ray tracing division as a senior software engineer. His goal is to continue to push the envelope of computer-generated imagery particularly related to computer vision and augmented reality.