People @ nFX

People and organizations
associated with nFX Interactive

Joel Voelz, President and CEO: Joel comes to nFX with extensive experience in the graphics, multimedia, entertainment software and on-line services markets. A graduate of MIT (B.S 1975) and the University of Chicago (MBA 1978), Joel spent 1993-1995 as an independent consultant to software and on-line service firms, focusing on multimedia and interactive services, through his firm, Talos/Venture Acceleration. His clients have included Spectrum Holobyte, AT&T and (Colossal) Pictures. From 1990 to 1993, he served as General Manager of the Scientific Modeling Division and from 1986 to 1989 as Director of Corporate Marketing for Autodesk, Inc. From 1984 to 1986 he served as cofounder and Manager of Marketing and Business Development of Trinzic Corporation. From 1978 to 1984, he served in varying capacities for Texas Instruments, including: Manager, Business and Market Development in the Consumer Electronics Group, Portable and Educational Products; Manager, Marketing Strategy in Texas Instruments' Corporate Development Group; and marketing and planning positions in T.I.'s Semiconductor Group.
Steve Librande: A founding member of nFX Interactive, Steve Librande, M.S. M.I.T. Media Laboratory (1992), B.F.A. California Institute of Arts Film/Video School (1987), has worked in a wide variety of technical and creative fields. He has been employed as an art director, video producer, computer software engineer, game designer and free-lance illustrator. His background in animation and graphics arts provides a strong base for his continuing work in advanced computer graphics research.
You can view his Master's thesis at the M.I.T. Archives.
Tomaso Poggio: Dr. Poggio is a founder of nFX and the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He directs research in computational vision at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. He is known for his pioneering work on stereo vision and the application of regularization theory to the problem of early vision. He is also Co-Director of the Center for Biological Information Processing at MIT.
Dr. Poggio received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Genoa in 1970. He has received numerous awards including the Premo Luigi Carlo Rossi from Elsag Elettronica, the Columbus Prize from the Istituto Internazionale dell Comiunicazioni, and the Otto-Hahn-Medaille for Outstanding Young Scientist from the Max Plank Society. He is the author of over 200 papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, biological information processing and non-linear systems theory.
M.I.T.: MIT has been instrumental in the creation of nFX, both in the form of licensing key inventions and in sharing their experience with technology based startups. MIT is a major shareholder in nFX.