About the Authors
James M. Van Verth is an OpenGL Software Engineer at NVIDIA, where
he works on device drivers for NVIDIA GPUs. Prior to that, he was a founding
member of Red Storm Entertainment, where he was a lead engineer for
eight years. For the past nine years he also has been a regular speaker at the
Game Developers Conference, teaching the all-day tutorials “Math for Game
Programmers” and “Physics for Game Programmers,” on which this book
is based. His background includes a B.A. in Math/Computer Science from
Dartmouth College, an M.S. in Computer Science from the State University
of New York at Buffalo, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lars M. Bishop is an engineer in the Handheld Developer Technologies group
at NVIDIA. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Lars was the Chief Technology Officer
at Numerical Design Limited, leading the development of the Gamebryo3D
cross-platform game engine. He received a BS in Math/Computer Science
from Brown University and an MS in Computer Science from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His outside interests include photography,
drumming, and playing bass guitar.
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