Career
In 1985, he co-founded Advanced Systems Design Group which built hardware for the Commodore Amiga. This company was renamed Elastic Reality, Incorporated. and became well known as a digital imaging software provider. In 1995 this company sold to Avid Technology, Incorporated.
Doctor Garth Dickie was a co-recipient of this award.
The invention is noteworthy in that it provided a means of creating warping and morphing effects using an interface which was more optimized for the user rather than the computation.
The award reads:
"These components form the core of an efficient and easy-to-use system that greatly simplifies the creation of shape-changing visual effects in motion pictures."
Perry is a principal in SilhouetteFX Limited Liability Company. He co-founded Profound Effects, Incorporated. (2001–2008), Hypercosm Incorporated.
(1999–2001) and KSK Electrics, Limited Liability Company (2013–present). Perry was accepted into the Visual Effects Society in 2012.
During the University of Wisconsin - Madison"s Sesquicentennial Celebration, Mr.
Kivolowitz was honored as being one of the 150 Ways the University of Wisconsin has Touched the World. Perry lectured for American Telephone & Telegraph Company and Bell Labs in the early 1980s on Unix Internals and debugging primarily at an American Telephone & Telegraph Company facility in Piscataway New Jersey but also across the country. In April 2012, Perry resumed lecturing on the process of debugging
As a graduate student Kivolowitz authored one of the earliest key logger programs, the source code of which was posted to Usenet in November 1983.
Mr.
Kivolowitz authored an early paper on file systems for write-once media presented at the 1984 USENIX conference in Salt Lake City. Since 2004 Perry has been an invited speaker and provides expert testimony on the subject of detecting tampered digital images (both still images and video). Published in 2013, "Get Office My Lwn" is a novel in the zombie fiction genre.
The book describes a technologist"s unique approach to surviving zombie hordes.
In 2006, Mr. Kivolowitz wed Sara Krueger Kivolowitz. 5881321 Camera motion sensing system
5754180 Computer system and process for defining and manipulating images using structured objects with variable edge characteristics
5077604 Color printing, correction can conversion apparatus and method.
