Ben Houston

Current

Senior Software Developer / Founder 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

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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

Senior Software Developer / Founder

Exocortex Technologies, Inc

(Computer Games industry)

February 2005 — Present (4 years 11 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