In 1991, Paul DeFanti received the Ig Nobel Pedestrian Technology Prize for the invention of the "Buckybonnet", a Buckminster Fulleresque geodesic fashion structure that pedestrians wear to protect their heads and preserve their composure. This makes him one of only three fictional people to have won the award. 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early fall — a week or two before the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced — for ten achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced. Sponsored by the scientific humor journal Annals... Fullerene C540 Fullerenes are one of only four types of naturally occurring forms of carbon (the other three being diamond, graphite and ceraphite). ...
Using CASA, Caltech's Paul Messina and his colleagues developed and demonstrated applications that coupled massively parallel and vector supercomputers for computational chemistry, climate modeling, and other sciences.
Within the US at least, the event that moved Grid concepts out of the network laboratory and into the consciousness of ordinary scientists was the I-WAY experiment.
Led by Tom DeFanti of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Rick Stevens of Argonne National Laboratory, this ambitious effort linked 11 experimental networks to create, for a week in November 1995, a national high-speed network infrastructure that connected resources at 17 sites across the US and Canada.
Paul received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) under Professor Thomas DeFanti.
Paul also published an initial paper on his simulator system at the first MICCAI conference here in Boston.
Paul's interests are in replicating surgical instruments functionality with a VR environment, physical based modeling, 3D scanning devices, texture mapping and modeling.
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