Publications
The following
paper discusses both a business and a technical approach to enable
High-Definition Internet services by bringing fiber connectivity to homes in the
US.
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Delivering High-Definition Digital Life - Community Owned FTTH Networks;
Salim AbiEzzi and Joseph Mouhanna; White Paper; Plextal Corporation; Feb
2006.
The following
papers cover advanced development work at Sun Microsystems and then product
development at Microsoft for supporting a declarative model that unifies the
different media types and supports animation and interactivity based on a
continuous model of time:
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Adding
Theatrical Effects to Everyday Web Pages with DirectAnimation; Salim AbiEzzi
and Pablo Fernicola; Microsoft Internet Developer; October 1997.
(Note that the animate illustrations require older versions of
Internet Explorer that shipped with Direct Animation).
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MediaFlow, an API for Distributed Integrated Media; Conal Elliott, Greg
Schechter, and Salim Abi-Ezzi; SunSoft white paper, March 1994.
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Functional 3D Graphics in C++– with an Object-Oriented, Multiple Dispatching
Implementation; Greg Schechter, Conal Elliott, Ricky Yeung, and Salim
Abi-Ezzi; Proc. of the 1994 Eurographics Object-Oriented Graphics Workshop,
Portugal, June 1994.
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TBAG:
A High
Level Framework for Interactive, Animated 3D Graphics Applications;
Conal Elliott, Greg Schechter, Ricky Yeung, and Salim Abi-Ezzi; Proc. of
Siggraph `94, July 1994.
The following
papers include key results from Salim's Ph.D. thesis and refinements thereof.
The NURB technology described in these papers was productized in Sun
Microsystem's graphics libraries, was supported in hardware in the ZX graphics
accelerator and was licensed to HP.
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Fast
Dynamic Tessellation of Trimmed NURBS Surfaces; Salim Abi-Ezzi and
Subramaniam Srikanth; Proc. of Eurographics ‘94, Norway, Sep. 1994. THE BEST
PAPER AWARD
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The
Cone of Normals for Fast Processing of Curved Patches; Leon Shirman and
Salim Abi-Ezzi; Proc. Eurographics '93, Spain, Sep. 1993. THIRD BEST PAPER
AWARD
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The Scaling Behavior of a Viewing Transformation; Salim Abi-Ezzi and
Leon Shirman; IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 13(3), May 1993.
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An Efficient and Dynamically Configurable System for the 3D Pipeline;
Walt Donovan and Salim Abi-Ezzi; White paper, Sun Microsystems,
November 1991.
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The Tessellation of Curved Surfaces under Highly Varying Transformations;
Salim Abi-Ezzi and Leon Shirman; Proc. Eurographics '91, Austria, Sep. 1991.
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Factoring a
Homogeneous transformation for a more Efficient Graphics Pipeline; Salim
Abi-Ezzi and Michael Wozny; Proc. Eurographics '90, Switzerland, Sep. 1990.
SECOND BEST PAPER AWARD
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An Analysis
of Modeling Clip; Robert O’Bara and Salim Abi-Ezzi; Proc. Eurographics '89,
Germany, Sep. 1989.
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A
Polynomial Basis with Distinct Advantages for Adaptive Forward Differencing;
Salim Abi-Ezzi; White Paper, submitted for publication in 1993; part of
Ph.D. thesis at RPI, May 1989.
The following
papers cover advanced development projects by RPI team's led by Salim on the
PHIGS 3D graphics standard:
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A Special
Graphics System for PHIGS; Salim Abi-Ezzi, Jorge Molina, and Michael Toelle;
Computers & Graphics, 12(2), Feb. 1988.
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The Priority
Tree, a HL/HSR Approach for PHIGS; Salim Abi-Ezzi; Eurographics Computer
Graphics Forum, 5(4), Dec. 1986.
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PHIGS in
CAD; Salim Abi-Ezzi and Steve Kader; ASME Computers in Mechanical
Engineering, 5(1), July 1986.
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An
Implementer’s View of PHIGS; Salim Abi-Ezzi and Albert Bunshaft; IEEE
Computer Graphics and Applications, 6(2), Feb. 1986.
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An Approach
for a PHIGS Machine; Salim Abi-Ezzi and Michael Milicia; Data Structures for
Raster Graphics, Eurographics seminars series, Edited by L. R. A. Kessener
et. al., Springer-Verlag, 1986.
This is Salim's
first publication and is related to a class on computational algebra that he
took at RPI under Professor David Saunders:
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Clarifications to the Symbolic Mode in REDUCE; Salim Abi-Ezzi; ACM Sigsam
Bulletin, 17(4), Nov. 1983.
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