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Morgan McGuire | |
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| Born | 1976 (age 48–49)[1] |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Graphics |
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| Thesis | Computational Videography with a Single-Axis, Multi-Parameter Lens Camera (2006) |
| Doctoral advisor | John F. Hughes |
Morgan McGuire is a computer scientist, game developer, and inventor. Since 2021, he has been Chief Scientist at Roblox.[2] Before joining Roblox, he was Director of Research at Nvidia[3] and a Professor at Williams College.[4]
Education
[edit]McGuire earned B.S. and M.Eng. degrees from MIT in 2000.[5] For his M.Eng. thesis, he designed the graphics systems and parts of the compiler for the MIT Curl project in Steven Ward's group, which was developing a new programming language for interactive web applications.[6] From 1998 to 2000, McGuire also served as Senior Architect for Curl Corporation, a startup that was eventually acquired by SCSK.[7]
Upon graduating from MIT, McGuire joined Oculus Technologies as a Senior Architect, but left after two years to pursue a Ph.D. full-time.[7] He joined Brown University and worked with John "Spike" Hughes, earning a Sci.M. degree in 2003 and a Ph.D. in 2006.[7]
Career
[edit]In 2006, McGuire joined Williams College as an Assistant Professor; he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2012[4] and to Professor in 2018.[7]
During his time at Williams, McGuire continued to work as an independent consultant, which he had been doing since 1996.[8] He contributed to the E Ink display for the Amazon Kindle and to the PeakStream HPC infrastructure, but also to a number of prominent games, including secure networking for the Titan Quest game series, as well as visual effects for the Unity game engine and the Skylanders, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, and Call of Duty game series.[7] It was in this capacity that, in 2005, he designed the scalable graphics for the very first version of Roblox.[9] He also was a Visiting Professor at Nvidia Research for many years.[4]
In 2017, McGuire started a transition to industry: he took a leave of absence from Williams to join Nvidia full-time, initially as a Distinguished Scientist.[3] In 2019 he was promoted to Director of Research,[7] at which point he resigned from Williams[10] but continued to maintain academic positions as an Adjunct Professor at McGill University and at the University of Waterloo. In 2021, he left Nvidia to become Chief Scientist at Roblox, where he launched research efforts on AI[11] and increasing scalability.[12]
Books
[edit]McGuire has written, and contributed to, a number of widely used computer graphics textbooks, including Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice and a book on creating computer games.[13]
Personal life
[edit]McGuire is a passionate sailor. He started teaching sailing courses at MIT in 1998[8] and is the author of a book on sailing that has been translated into eight languages.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "Record for 'Creating Games'". Library of Congress.
- ^ "Speaker details for Morgan McGuire". MIT Technology Review.
- ^ a b "Morgan McGuire". Nvidia Technical Blog. Retrieved December 31, 2024.
- ^ a b c "Heeringa and McGuire receive tenure". Williams College. Retrieved December 31, 2024.
- ^ "Morgan McGuire Faculty Page". Williams College. Retrieved December 31, 2024.
- ^ "Results of the Curl research project". MIT Computer Architecture Group. Retrieved December 31, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f "Morgan McGuire's CV". Casual Effects. Retrieved December 31, 2024.
- ^ a b McGuire, Morgan (2006). Computational Videography with a Single Axis, Multi-Parameter Lens Camera (PDF) (PhD thesis). Brown University.
- ^ "Roblox Investor Day September 2022". YouTube. September 15, 2022.
- ^ "Morgan McGuire's home page". Williams College. Retrieved December 31, 2024.
- ^ "Making games with your voice, with Roblox chief scientist Morgan McGuire". TechFirst with John Koetsier. August 28, 2024.
- ^ "Roblox and Scaling the Metaverse". Building the Open Metaverse podcast. January 12, 2022.
- ^ McGuire, Morgan (2008). Creating Games: Mechanics, Content, and Technology. CRC Press. ISBN 9781568813059.
- ^ McGuire, Morgan. "The Sailing Codex". Retrieved December 31, 2024.
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