About the Authors
Dan is the founder of Upsample Software, LLC, a software company offering consulting services in 3D graphics and GPU computing. Dan has coauthored several other books, including the OpenCL Programming Guide and OpenGL Shading Language, Third Edition. In previous roles Dan has worked on developing OpenGL drivers, desktop and handheld 3D demos, GPU developer tools, 3D medical visualization, and games. He holds a B.S. in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an M.B.A. from Bentley University.
Budi is a senior software architect at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., where he leads the software enablement efforts of GPU debugging and profiling technology across multiple AMD software stacks. He collaborates with many software and hardware architects within AMD to define future hardware architectures for debugging and profiling GPU applications. He has published many computer graphics technical articles at international conferences. He received his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Michigan Technological University, and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. in computer science from Johns Hopkins University.
Affie has been architecting GPUs for more than a decade. At ATI (now AMD), he was a senior architect in the Handheld Group. He is the spec editor for the OpenGL ES 1.1, OpenGL ES 2.0, and OpenCL specifications. He currently works at Apple.
Dave has been working with OpenGL for almost two decades, and more recently with OpenGL ES. He authored the first commercial training course on OpenGL while working at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems (SGI), and has worked as an author on the OpenGL Programming Guide. He has presented introductory and advanced courses on OpenGL programming worldwide at numerous conferences, including SIGGRAPH.
Dave is now a media systems architect at ARM, Inc. He holds a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Delaware.