Ben Houston

Current

• Founder & CTO at Exocortex Technologies, Inc

Past

• Lead Software Architect, Commercialization Strategist at Frantic Films
• Junior Consultant (Summer Intern) at Visual Insights
• Junior Consultant (Summer Intern) at Visual Insights

• Cognitive Science Specialist (Summer Intern) at Consulting and Audits Canada
• Computer Science Officer (Summer Intern) at National Research Council of Canada

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Education

• Carleton University

Recommended

3 people have recommended Ben

Connections

113 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Website

Ben Houston’s Summary

IMDB profile:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1571968/

Ben Houston’s Specialties:

Direct3D, photo-realistic rendering algorithms, fluid simulation, project management, software sales

Ben Houston’s Experience

• Founder & CTO

  Exocortex Technologies, Inc

  (Computer Games industry)

  February 2005 — Present (3 years 8 months)

  Founded, in part, as a means to gain entrepreneurial business experience. Developing graphics, information visualization and simulation solutions for various client including Health Canada, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, and Stacks Poker LLC.
  
  Recent publications:
  
  Houston, B, Nielsen, M, Batty C, Nilsson, O & K Museth. (2006) "Hierarchical RLE Level Set: A Compact and Versatile Deformable Surface Representation." ACM Transactions on Graphics 25(1), January 2006. [Peer reviewed]

• Lead Software Architect, Commercialization Strategist

  Frantic Films

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2002 — January 2005 (2 years 6 months)

  Contributed to: Paycheck (2003), Italian Job (2003), Scooby Doo 2 (2004), Cursed (2005), Stay (2005), Posiedon (2006), Superman Returns (2006)
  
  Research publications:
  
  Batty, C, & B Houston. (2005) Visual Simulation of Wispy Smoke. SIGGRAPH 2005. [Peer Reviewed]
  
  Houston, B, Nielsen, M, Batty C, Nilsson, O & K Museth. (2005) Gigantic Deformable Surfaces. SIGGRAPH 2005. [Peer Reviewed]
  
  Houston, B., Wiebe, M. & C. Batty. (2004) RLE Sparse Level Sets. SIGGRAPH 2004. [Peer Reviewed]
  
  Wiebe, M & B. Houston. (2004) The Tar Monster: Creating a Character with Fluid Simulation. SIGGRAPH 2004. [Peer Reviewed]
  
  Batty, C, M. Wiebe and B. Houston. (2003) High Performance Production-Quality Fluid Simulation via NVIDIA’s QuadroFX. NVIDIA-Frantic Films Whitepaper.
  
  Houston, B., Bond, C., & M. Wiebe. (2003) A Unified Approach to Modeling Complex Occlusions in Fluid Simulations. SIGGRAPH 2003. [Peer Reviewed]

• Junior Consultant (Summer Intern)

  Visual Insights

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2001 — August 2001 (4 months)

• Junior Consultant (Summer Intern)

  Visual Insights

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2000 — August 2000 (4 months)

• Cognitive Science Specialist (Summer Intern)

  Consulting and Audits Canada

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 1999 — August 1999 (4 months)

• Computer Science Officer (Summer Intern)

  National Research Council of Canada

  (Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 1998 — August 1998 (5 months)

Ben Houston’s Education

• Carleton University

  Bachelor of Arts with Honors, Cognitive Science (Neuroscience), 1998 — 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  Cognitive Science Society, Debate Team, ACM Programming Team

Additional Information

Ben Houston’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website

Ben Houston’s Groups:

•    The Visual Effects Society
•    [VFX_AG] - The Visual Effects Artists Group
•    Visual Effects Professionals
•    eBusiness Cluster

Ben Houston’s Contact Settings

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