Patrick L. Hartling

Current Address

2917 Heathrow Dr Apt 38
Ames, IA 50014-8397
patrick.hartling@gmail.com
http://www.137.org/patrick/

Education

Iowa State University

Master of Science in Computer Science, Thesis: Octopus: A study in collaborative virtual environment implementation, May 2001
GPA: 3.44/4.0 overall
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, December 1997
GPA: 3.56/4.0 overall, 3.57/4.0 major

Honors, Awards, and Affiliations

ACM SIGGRAPH member since April 2002
Received ISU Research Excellence Award, May 2001
ACM member since April 2001
Research featured on CBS ``Early Show'', July 2000
Graduated with distinction, December 1997
Member of Project Vincent Student Development Group, April 1997 (volunteer group for Iowa State University distributed computing environment)
Lifetime member of Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Spring 1997
Member of Golden Key National Honor Society, Fall 1996

Work Experience

Priority 5 Holdings, Inc., September 2007–present
Senior Software Engineer

Infiscape Corporation, November 2003–September 2007
VP of Engineering

Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC), January 1998–December 2004
Graduate Research Assistant

Researcher for Deere & Co.
Core developer on long-term, team-oriented software engineering project developing VR Juggler, an open source C++ library for virtual reality application development
Primary developer of PyJuggler, the Python language bindings for VR Juggler, and of VRJ.NET, the .NET/CLR language bindings for same
Primary developer of Tweek, a multi-language software toolkit for developing portable, scalable graphical user interfaces for use with any application domain
Primary developer of Octopus, a C++ software toolkit for enabling collaborative virtual environments
Documentation co-author for all projects listed above

Glass House Studio, October 2002
Contractor

Co-presenter of three-day course on virtual reality application development using VR Juggler

Naval Research Lab, May 1998–August 1998
Intern

Helped develop object-oriented software tools for use in United States Navy virtual reality research
Assisted with public demonstrations of Naval Research Lab virtual reality equipment

Geographic Information Systems Support and Research Facility, July 1996–January 1998
System Administrator, Webmaster

Maintained networked computers running Ultrix, Digital UNIX, IRIX, Windows 95, and Windows NT
Designed various types of administrative and user scripts in Perl, sh, and tcsh
Managed, backed up, and restored user data
Documented all scripts, programs, and activities

Iowa State University Computation Center Help Room, August 1995–July 1996
Part-time Consultant

Answered user questions on a walk-in basis, on-line, and over the telephone
Composed and edited system documentation for campus-wide distribution

Publications

Patrick Hartling, Carolina Cruz-Neira, ``Tweek: A Framework for Cross-Display Graphical User Interfaces'', Computational Science and Its Applications — ICCSA 2005: International Conference, Singapore, May 9–12, 2005, Proceedings, Part III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 3482, 1060–1069
Aron Bierbaum, Patrick Hartling, Pedro Morillo, Carolina Cruz-Neira, ``Implementing Immersive Clustering with VR Juggler'', Computational Science and Its Applications — ICCSA 2005: International Conference, Singapore, May 9–12, 2005, Proceedings, Part III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 3482, 1119–1128
Patrick Hartling, Ben Scott, Josh Brown, Allen Bierbaum, Carolina Cruz-Neira, ``Avatar Manipulation as a Metaphor for Virtual Reality System Simulator Interaction'', Immersive Projection Technology Workshop 2004 (IPT 2004), Ames, IA, May 13–14, 2004
Allen Bierbaum, Patrick Hartling, Carolina Cruz-Neira, ``Automated Testing of Virtual Reality Application Interfaces'', IPT/EGVE 2003, Zurich, Switzerland, May 22–23, 2003
Patrick Hartling, Allen Bierbaum, Carolina Cruz-Neira, ``Virtual Reality Interfaces Using Tweek'', ACM SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio, Texas, July 21–26, 2002
Patrick Hartling, Allen Bierbaum, Carolina Cruz-Neira, ``Tweek: Merging 2D and 3D Interaction in Virtual Environments'', SCI 2002, Orlando, Florida, July 14–18, 2002

Paper selected as best of session

Carolina Cruz-Neira, Allen Bierbaum, Patrick Hartling, Christopher Just, Kevin Meinert, ``VR Juggler–An Open Source Platform for Virtual Reality Applications'', 40th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit 2002, Reno, Nevada, January 14–17 2002, AIAA Paper 2002-0754
Patrick Hartling, Christopher Just, Carolina Cruz-Neira, ``Distributed Virtual Reality Using Octopus'', IEEE Virtual Reality 2001, Yokohama, Japan, March 13–17, 2001
Allen Bierbaum, Christopher Just, Patrick Hartling, Kevin Meinert, Albert Baker, Carolina Cruz-Neira, ``VR Juggler: A Virtual Platform for Virtual Reality Application Development'', IEEE Virtual Reality 2001, Yokohama, Japan, March 13–17, 2001
Christopher Just, Allen Bierbaum, Patrick Hartling, Kevin Meinert, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Albert Baker, ``VjControl: An Advanced Configuration Management Tool for VR Juggler Applications'', IEEE Virtual Reality 2001, Yokohama, Japan, March 13–17, 2001
Allen Bierbaum, Christopher Just, Patrick Hartling, Carolina Cruz-Neira, ``Flexible Application Design Using VR Juggler'', ACM SIGGRAPH 2000, New Orleans, LA, July 23–28, 2000
Patrick Hartling, Christopher Just, Carolina Cruz-Neira, ``Octopus: A Cross-Platform API for Enabling Distributed Virtual Reality Applications'', Immersive Projection Technology Workshop 2000 (IPT 2000), Ames, IA, June 19–20, 2000

Technical Presentations

``Virtual Reality: Practical Cases'', CARVI 2004, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, June 14–15, 2004
``Virtual Reality'', three-day Campus TI course at the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain, July 16–18, 2003
``Putting VR to Work: Experiences at the Virtual Reality Applications Center'', CARVI 2003, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, April 4–5, 2003
Day-long tutorial: ``Scalable VR Application Development'', IEEE VR 2003, Los Angeles, California, March 23, 2003

Tutorial organizer

Half-day course: ``VR Juggler Application Development Using VR Juggler'', Second CAVE Programming Workshop, Aalborg, Denmark, October 2, 2002
Day-long tutorial: ``Open Source Virtual Reality'', IEEE VR 2002, Orlando, Florida, March 23, 2001
Short course: ``VR Juggler Application Programming'', CAVE Programming Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, October 3, 2001
``Virtual Design Technology and Applications Clinic'', Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Everett, WA, September 28, 2000
Presentation of ``Virtual Architecture Design Tool (VADeT)'', Immersive Projection Technology Workshop 1999 (IPT '99), Stuttgart, Germany, May 10–11, 1999
Educational and technical seminars presented to VRAC students, staff, and faculty

Technical Exhibits

Howe Hall virtual reality auditorium demonstration, Iowa State University Engineering Week 2001
VRAC virtual reality system, VR Juggler application, and Octopus software demonstrations, IPT 2000
Deere & Co. Executive Technical Council demonstration, October 1999
VRAC virtual reality system demonstrations, IPT '98

Additional Activities

Student mentoring at Virtual Reality Applications Center
Attendance at professional conferences: ACM SIGGRAPH; IEEE Virtual Reality; Immersive Projection Technology Workshop; Congress on the Future of Engineering Software; Reality Center SIG North America; World Multiconference on Systemics, Cyberntics, and Informatics
Host to VRAC visitors on a regular basis for technology demonstrations
Member of Iowa State University Chemistry Club