Microsoft researcher does star turn
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Hollywood has Stephen Spielberg and George Clooney, but Redmond has John Platt.
The senior researcher from Microsoft recently accepted an Academy Award for technical achievement. Platt, 42, won along with University of Toronto professor Demetri Terzopoulos for the techniques they developed in the 1980s to make computer-simulated cloth look and move like the real thing.
After getting word of the honor in an Academy letter in his Microsoft mailbox, Platt accepted the award two weeks ago in Beverly Hills, Calif., at the technical and scientific ceremony that precedes this weekend's televised Oscar shindig.