Presenter

Paul Dietz is a prolific inventor of technologies for interactive experiences. He is best known for his seminal work on multitouch that helped drive the adoption of this now ubiquitous interface. He has held senior research positions at Walt Disney Imagineering, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs and Microsoft. Paul co-founded and led Misapplied Sciences which was formed to commercialize his breakthrough display technology that can simultaneously show different images to each viewer without the need for glasses. Recently, he has been a Technical Fellow at Tactual Labs where he has been leading efforts to commercialize his work on shape sensors. Paul holds an SB from MIT, and MS and PhD degrees from Carnegie Mellon, all in Electrical Engineering. His currently serving as the SIGGRAPH 2021 Emerging Technologies Chair.