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| Paris, January 4, 2001 - Dr. Gilles Débarbouillé will teach an application-oriented course organized to help make Open CASCADE 3D modeling components more widely known in the U.S. |
Dr. Gilles Débarbouillé of the Open CASCADE team has been invited by U.C. Berkeley as guest lecturer for a seminar course for graduate students with a CAD, mechanical or graphics background, particularly those from the mechanical engineering and computer science
schools. The goal of the seminar is to introduce the participants to the architecture and geometric
algorithms of the Open CASCADE 3D modeling kernel and to help make this open software system more widely known in the U.S. The course begins in January 2001 and will run until the end of March.
U.C. Berkeley has always been interested in Open Source tools and was a supporter of the Open
Source movement from the very beginning. The course on Open CASCADE is application oriented
and aimed at increasing the skill level of participants, who will work with and develop software within the Open CASCADE framework. Under the supervision of Dr. Débarbouillé, students will focus on individual projects, such as application development or the creation of new Open CASCADE components.
Dr. Débarbouillé will also serve as a consultant to the CyberCut and CyberBuild projects of the
University's Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory. These concern tools for validating design for
manufacturability, tools for automated manufacturing, a simple design tool, and a Web-based CAD.
According to Prof. Carlo Sequin of the Computer Science Division of the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science: "Open CASCADE is key to the CyberCut and CyberBuild projects. It saves us time, since developing a complete solution by ourselves would have taken too
long. Using proprietary code was also out of the question because we need to be able to fix things in a timely manner and to develop our own extensions. We can do this only with an open-source tool."
Gilles Débarbouillé is experienced in both mechanical engineering and 3D modeling
kernel development. A mechanical engineering graduate of the National Engineering School of Saint Etienne, France, Gilles Débarbouillé received his Doctorate on the algorithmic processing of information from the University of Paris VI in 1982. His specialties are complex algorithms, geometry and topology, and programming optimization.
At Matra Datavision Dr. Débarbouillé has worked successively on applied research in numerical
control, design of the EUCLID CAD/CAM system modeling kernel, redesign of the CASCADE
modeling kernel algorithms using the object-oriented approach, and dimensioning, tolerancing and run-time performance. Since 1999, he is responsible for the Research and Development Department of Open CASCADE and has been very active in the Open Source enabling of Open CASCADE.
For the past five years, Gilles Débarbouillé has supervised the work of PhD students in internship at Matra Datavision. He is also active as a project leader for 3D modeling for the Open CASCADE Core Team. |
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