About / Distinguished Lecture Series
The Adobe Distinguished Lecture Series brings our industry’s most eminent researchers and creative professionals to the Adobe campus for a lecture and full day of informal discussions. Sponsored by the Adobe Research, the series provides an opportunity to meet and learn from visionaries at the cutting edge of digital media.
Free and open to the public. Two-way videoconferencing to Adobe offices worldwide. (Connect URL: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/dls)
2012
September 20, 2012
Alan Kay
Lecture at 1:30 p.m. in Chaplin, 601 Townsend St, San Francisco.
February 1, 2012
Barry Katz (California College of the Arts)
Lecture at 4 p.m. PDT in Chaplin, 601 Townsend St, San Francisco.
March 20, 2012
Ed Chi (Google)
Lecture at 1:30 p.m. PDT in Park Auditorium, 345 Park Ave, San Jose.
2011
December 7, 2011
Enrique Godreau III (Voyager)
Lecture at 4 p.m. PDT in Park Auditorium, 345 Park Ave, San Jose.
2010
December 2, 2010
Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft Research)
Lecture at 12:30 p.m. PDT in Chaplin, 601 Townsend St, San Francisco.
October 14, 2010
Jamy Ian Swiss (Magician)
Lecture at 2 p.m. PDT in Chaplin, 601 Townsend St, San Francisco.
September 21, 2010
Nathan Myhrvold (Intellectual Ventures)
Lecture at 1 p.m. PDT in San Jose State CR, 345 Park Ave, San Jose.
August 26, 2010
Stephen Few
Lecture at 4 p.m. PDT in Chaplin, 601 Townsend St, San Francisco.
June 24, 2010
John Sexton (Photographer)
Lecture at 4 p.m. PDT in Park Auditorium, 345 Park Ave, San Jose.
May 17, 2010
Andy Wilson (Microsoft Research)
Lecture at 4 p.m. PDT in Chaplin, 601 Townsend St, San Francisco.
April 22, 2010
Joe Marks (Disney Research)
Lecture at 1 p.m. PDT in Park Auditorium,345 Park Ave., San Jose.
February 23, 2010
William Moggridge (IDEO)
Lecture at 4 p.m. PDT in Chaplin, 601 Townsend St, San Francisco.
January 27, 2010
Hany Farid (Dartmouth)
Lecture at 1 p.m. PDT in San Jose State CR, 345 Park Ave, San Jose.
2009
December 8, 2009
Joe Marks (Disney)
Lecture at 1:00 p.m. PDT in Park Auditorium, 345 Park Ave, San Jose.
September 15, 2009
William Sutherland
Lecture at 4 p.m. PDT in Stanford University CR & UC Berkeley CR, 345 Park Ave, San Jose.
July 27, 2009
Stu Maschwitz (The Orphanage)
Lecture at 4 p.m. PDT in Park Auditorium, 345 Park Ave, San Jose.
June 9, 2009
Steve Sullivan (Industrial Light and Magic)
Lecture at 12:30 p.m. PDT in Park Auditorium, 345 Park Ave, San Jose.
May 14, 2009
Jeff Hawkins (Numenta)
Lecture at 4 p.m. PDT in Park Auditorium, 345 Park Ave, San Jose.
March 5, 2009
Bob Taylor
Q & A
Lecture at 4 p.m. PDT in San Jose State CR, 345 Park Ave, San Jose.
February 5, 2009
Scott Kim (Shufflebrain)
Games for Visual Thinking
Lecture at 12:30 p.m. PDT in Stanford University CR, 345 Park Ave, San Jose.
January 12, 2009
Chuck Geschke (Adobe Chairman of the Board)
The Adobe Story: Lessons Learned in Building a Software Company and Dealing with Adversity
Lecture at 12:30 p.m. PDT in Park Auditorium, 345 Park Ave, San Jose.
2008
October 28, 2008
Jamy Ian Swiss
How Magic Works
Note: Lecture at 12:30 p.m. PDT in Park Auditorium, 345 Park Ave, San Jose. Dessert reception immediately following the talk.
September 16, 2008
Bruce Dale (Bruce Dale Photography)
A Lifetime of BAD Pictures
August 5, 2008
Jitendra Malik (University of California, Berkeley)
From Pixels to Perception: Computational Models of Visual Grouping
July 22, 2008
James M. Citrin (Spencer Stuart, Executive Search Consultant)
Professional Success and Beyond: The Dynamic Path
June 3, 2008
Mark Seiden (Cutter Consortium, Senior Consultant)
From the Case Book of ...
May 12, 2008
Howard Rheingold
Technologies of Cooperation
April 15, 2008
Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Architecture for Commonsensical Intelligence
March 25, 2008
Frans Lanting (Frans Lanting Studio)
LIFE: The Unfolding Journey
March 11, 2008
Dennis Muren (A.S.C., Industrial Light and Magic)
Weaving the Real and Imaginary in Visual Effects
January 29, 2008
Jim Cox and Michael Fry (RingTales)
From Strip to Screen: Bring Comics to Life
2007
December 17, 2007
Michael Hawley (Kodak Director, Founder of Friendly Planet)
Going to Extremes: Imaging the Rural Past and Urban Future
November 13, 2007
October 1, 2007
Glenn Entis (SVP, Chief Visual and Technical Officer, Electronic Arts)
The Big Challenges for Interactive Computer Graphics
September 17, 2007
Don Knuth (Stanford University)
All Questions Answered
August 21, 2007
Scott McCloud (www.scottmcloud.com)
Comics: A Medium in Transition
July 31, 2007
Paul Viola (Microsoft Live Labs)
Working in the Sweet Spot: Creating Research that Works for Industry
June 26, 2007
John Knoll (Industrial Light and Magic)
Pirates of the Caribbean: A Visual Effects Voyage
May 5, 2007
Steve Seitz (University of Washington)
Navigating the World's Photographs
April 3, 2007
Bob Sedgewick (Princeton University)
Finding Paths in Graphs
March 5, 2007
Harry Shum (Microsoft Research Asia)
Prior, Context and Interactive Computer Vision
February 20, 2007
Takeo Igarashi (University of Tokyo)
Interactive Smart Computers
January 30, 2007
Graham Flint & Catherine Aves (Gigapxl™ Project)
The Gigapxl™ Project
2006
December 5, 2006
Andries van Dam (Brown University)
When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard?
November 7, 2006
Rick Szeliski (Microsoft Research)
Being There: Capturing a Sense of Place
October 24, 2006
Brian Curless (University of Washington)
The Space of Human Shapes
September 19, 2006
Marc Levoy (Stanford University)
Computational Imaging in Photography and the Sciences
August 22, 2006
Michael Cohen (Microsoft Research)
Capturing the Moment: What Cameras Should be Doing
July 18, 2006
Roger Mandle (Rhode Island School of Design)
The Future of Design
June 13, 2006
Michal Irani (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Space-Time Analysis and Manipulation of Video Information
May 5, 2006
Shree Nayar (Columbia University)
April 18, 2006
Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota)
Special Effects in Images and Video: Inpainting Everything
March 28, 2006
Bill Freeman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
February 21, 2006
Pat Hanrahan (Stanford University)
On Being in the Right Space: How to Harness the Power of Visualization
