Tidbits about John Stone

An old picture of me taken while working on the
Siggraph '97 exhibits floor.

Interests and Hobbies:: Some of my favorite hobbies include music, ballroom and nightclub dancing, photography, astronomy, swimming, and traveling.; Pictures of people, places, and events in my life; My musical projects and background; Interesting stuff I've done; Free software projects that I've worked on or contributed code or fixes to.; Links to my friends' pages..
Work:: I'm a Senior Research Programmer in the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois.; I'm the lead developer of VMD, a high performance molecular visualization tool used by biophysicists and structural biologists all over the world.; Other jobs I've had over the years; I'm a professional member of the Association for Computing Machinery
Research Interests:

VMD: High Performance Visualization of Complex Molecular Systems,
Run-time Visualization of Molecular Dynamics Simulations,
Haptic Feedback, Interactive Molecular Dynamics
Tachyon: Efficient Ray Tracing on SMPs, Clusters, and Massively Parallel Supercomputers.: Molecular Visualization; Run-time Visualization of Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations
JMV: Java and Web-based Molecular Visualization Component Software
FreeVR: A free multi-platform alternative to the CAVE library.

Education:

Other accomplishments:

Hal Burch, Rob Ziegler and I took 17th place in the 1996 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

Hal Burch, Rob Ziegler and I took 1st Place in 1996 ACM Mid-Central Regional Programming Contest

I was one of the founding members of the UMR Solar Car Team

Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon computer science honorary society while in graduate school.

Member of Kappa Kappa Psi honorary band fraternity while in graduate school.

Publications:

"A System for Interactive Molecular Dynamics Simulation": John E. Stone, Justin Gullingsrud, Klaus Schulten, Paul Grayson; In 2001 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics,; John F. Hughes and Carlo H. Sequin, editors, pages 191-194, New York, 2001, ACM SIGGRAPH; Online full text of paper; I3D 2001 Conference Home Page

"Workstation Clusters for Parallel Computing"

John Stone, Fikret Ercal

IEEE Potentials Magazine, May 2001

"The Ups and Downs of Multithreaded Ray Tracing and Optimization"

John Stone

"An Efficient Library for Parallel Ray Tracing and Animation"

John E. Stone

"Accelerating Software-based MPEG Encoding Using the VIS Instruction Set"

John Stone, Ahmad Zandi