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Dr. Schroeder is President and co-founder of
Kitware, Inc. Kitware is a small company providing software
tools and expertise in 3D graphics, visualization, medical image
analysis, and quality software process. Will's
role at Kitware is to identify technology and business
opportunities, and to obtain the necessary support for
Kitware to meet these opportunities. Dr. Schroeder
provides technical leadership in projects such as NLM's
Insight Toolkit project (itk.org), NSF-funded projects for
higher-order finite element visualization and visual
databases, DOE grid computing, and various projects for
medical image analysis.
Kitware was founded in 1998 to support the Visualization
Toolkit (VTK) software that was initially created as a part
of a visualization textbook authored by Will (along with
Ken Martin and Bill Lorensen) and published by
Prentice-Hall. Dr. Schroeder continues to contribute
technically to the VTK software and also contributes to
other open-source and proprietary software systems such as
ITK, the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit.
Prior to his current position, Dr. Schroeder was
computational scientist as the GE Corporate R&D Center
where he developed software tools for the analysis of
mechanical systems, including medical and computational
visualization. In an earlier position at the same
organization he developed advanced tools for fully
automatic mesh generation. From 1980 through 1987 he was a
design engineer at GE's Gas Turbine Division where he
helped design and implement advanced simulation systems
based on finite element, finite difference, and boundary
element methods.
Dr. Schroeder graduated in 1983 with a M.S. in applied
mathematics, and in 1991 with a Ph.D. in mathematics from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His Ph.D. was obtained
part-time over an eleven year period while he worked full
time at GE. Dr. Schroeder graduated summa cum laude from
the University of Maryland in 1980 as a mechanical
engineer. Dr. Schroeder continues to be active in the
research community presenting papers, teaching courses, and
participating on panel discussions at such conferences as
Siggraph, IEEE Visualization, and
Supercomputing. Dr. Schroeder has also been an invited
speaker at conferences such as Pacific Graphics, the CINECA
(Italy) Supercomputing Series, Visualization Development
Environments 2000, and ATT Visualization Days.
Selected Publications
William J. Schroeder,
François Bertel, Mathieu Malaterre, David Thompson, Philippe P. Pébay, Robert
O'Bara and Saurabh Tendulkar, Methods and Framework for
Visualizing Higher-Order Finite Elements, IEEE Transactions on
Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(4):446-460, July/August 2006.
Steve Pieper, Bill Lorensen, Will Schroeder, Ron Kikinis.
The NA-MIC Kit: ITK, VTK, Pipelines, Grids and 3D Slicer as An Open Platform for the
Medical Image Computing Community. In Proc. of
ISBI Nano To Macro 2006 Conference, April 2006.
William J. Schroeder,
François Bertel, Mathieu Malaterre, David Thompson, Philippe P. Pébay, Robert
O'Bara and Saurabh Tendulkar, Framework for
Visualizing Higher-Order Basis Functions, In Proceedings of
IEEE Visualization 2005, Minneapolis, MN, October 23-28, 2005, pages 43--50.
(draft)
Will Schroeder and Mark Shephard.
Computational Visualization.
In Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics,
E. Stein, R. De Borst, J.R. Thomas, editors. J. Wiley, 2004.
Will Schroeder and Ken Martin.
Overview of Visualization. .
In The Visualization Handbook,
C. D. Hansen and C. R. Johnson, editors. Elsevier, 2004.
Will Schroeder and Ken Martin.
The Visualization Toolkit. .
In The Visualization Handbook,
C. D. Hansen and C. R. Johnson, editors. Elsevier, 2004.
Will Schroeder,
Berk Geveci, Mathieu Malaterre.
Compatible Triangulations of Spatial Decompositions..
In Proc. of IEEE Visualization 2004, October 2004.
Luis Ibanez, Will Schroeder,
Lydia Ng, Josh Cates. The ITK Software Guide.
ISBN 1-930934-10-6, Kitware, Inc. 2003.
Will Schroeder,
Luis Ibanez, Ken Martin.
Software Process: The Key to Developing Robust,
Reusable and Maintainable Open-Source Software..
In Proc. of ISBI Nano To Macro 2004 Conference, April 2004.
Brad King
and Will Schroeder.
Automated Wrapping of Complex C++ Code..
C/C++ Users Journal, January 2003.
T.S. Yoo,
M. J. Ackerman, W. E. Lorensen, W. Schroeder, V. Chalana,
S. Aylward, D. Metaxes, R. Whitaker.
Engineering and Algorithm Design
for an Image Processing API: A Technical Report on ITK -
The Insight Toolkit. In Proc. of Medicine
Meets Virtual Reality, J. Westwood, ed., IOS Press
Amsterdam pp 586-592, 2002.
W. J. Schroeder,
L. S. Avila, K. M. Martin, W. Hoffman, C. Charles Law, The
Visualization Toolkit User's Guide, ISBN 1-930934-05-X,
Kitware, Inc. 2001.
H. Pfister,
W.E. Lorensen, C. Bajaj, Kindlmann, W.J. Schroeder, L.S. Avila,
K.M. Martin, Transfer Function Bake-Off,
IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 21(3), (May/June
2001).
W.J. Schroeder,
L.S. Avila, W. Hoffman, Visualizing
with VTK: A Tutorial, IEEE Computer Graphics &
Applications, 20(5), (Sept/Oct 2000).
C. Charles
Law, K. M. Martin, W. J. Schroeder, J. E. Temkin, A
Multi-Threaded Streaming Pipeline Architecture for Large Structured
Data Sets, Proc. of Visualization '99, (Oct.
1999).
Yi-Jen Chiang, C. T. Silva,
W. J. Schroeder, Interactive Out-of-Core Isosurface
Extraction, Proc. of Visualization '98, pp 167-174,
IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, October 1998.
C.Charles Law, L. S. Avila,
W. J. Schroeder. Application of Path Planning and
Visualization for Industrial Design and Maintainability Analysis,
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) Proceedings, 1998.
W. J. Schroeder,
Ken Martin, and Bill Lorensen, The
Visualization Toolkit: An Object Orient Approach to Computer
Graphics, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, (1997).
W. J. Schroeder,
A Topology Modifying Progressive Decimation
Algorithm, Proc. of Visualization '97, pp
205-212, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, (October
1997).
W. J. Schroeder
and L. Sobierajski Avila, Interactive
Visualization of Aircraft and Power Generation Engines,
Proc. of Visualization '97, pp 483-486, IEEE Computer
Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, (October 1997).
W. J. Schroeder
and T. Citriniti, Decimating
Polygonal Meshes,
Dr. Dobb's Journal, pp 109-112, Miller Freeman, July 1997.
W. J. Schroeder,
K. Martin, and W. Lorensen, The Design
and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Toolkit for 3D Graphics
and Visualization, Proc. IEEE Visualization '96,
(November 1996).
W. J. Schroeder
and W.E. Lorensen, 3-D Surface Contours,,
Dr. Dobb's Journal, pp 26-32, Miller Freeman, July 1996.
W. J. Schroeder,
Visualizing Scientific Data,,
C/C++ Users Journal, pp 33-37, Miller Freeman, 14(6), June 1996.
M.S. Shephard and
W. J. Schroeder, Analysis Data for Visualization
, R.S. Gallagher, editor, Computer Visualization Graphics
Techniques for Scientific and Engineering AnalysisCRC Press, 1995.
W. J. Schroeder,
W. E. Lorensen, and S. Linthicum, Implicit
Modeling of Swept Surfaces and Volumes, Proc.
of Visualization '94, pp 40-55, IEEE Computer Society Press,
Los Alamitos, CA. (October 1994).
H. Cline,
W. E. Lorensen, and W. J. Schroeder, 3D
Phase Contrast MRI of Cerebral Blood Flow and Surface Anatomy,
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 17(2):173-177,
(March/April 1993).
W. J. Schroeder,
W. E. Lorensen, G. Montanaro, and C. Volpe, Visage:
An Object-Oriented Scientific Visualization System,
Proc. of Visualization '92, pp 126-132, IEEE Computer
Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, (October 1992).
W. J. Schroeder,
J. Zarge, and W. E. Lorensen, Decimation
of Triangle Meshes, Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH
'92). Vol. 26. No. 2, pp 65-70, (August 1992),
W. J. Schroeder,
Chris Volpe, and Bill Lorensen, The Stream Polygon:
A technique for 3D Vector Field Visualization, Proc.
IEEE Visualization '91, pp 126-132, IEEE Computer
Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, (October 1991).
W. J. Schroeder
and M.S. Shephard, On Rigorous Conditions
for Automatically Generating Finite Element Meshes,
In J. Turner, J. Pegna, and M. Wozny, editors, Product Modeling
for Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing, pp 267-281,
North-Holland, 1991.
W. J. Schroeder,
Geometric Triangulations: With Application
to Fully Automatic 3D Mesh Generation, Ph.D. Thesis,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., (December 1991).
W. J. Schroeder
and M. S. Shephard, A Combined Octree/Delaunay
Method for Fully Automatic 3D Mesh Generation, International
Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 29(1):37-55, January, 1990.
C. M. Graichen, A. F. Hathaway, P. M. Finnigan, A. Kela, and
W. J. Schroeder, A 3-D Fully Automated
Geometry-Based Finite Element Meshing System,
ASME 89-WA/CIE-4, 1989.
M. S. Shephard, K. R. Grice, A. Lo, and W. J. Schroeder,
Trends in Automatic Three-Dimensional
Mesh Generation, Computers and Structures,
30(1), 1988.
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