oh right, yeah i saw a video with him on the autodesk website...that was a while ago though, so hearing his name doesn't instantly click
Think a big awesome dude like him would even read an email from a little guy like me? :p

for the up-to-date state-of-the-art algorithms i've been looking around for what SIGGRAPH and ACM can offer

i've just been collecting papers based on their title and abstract and introduction

this is my uh... for lack of better words, blocking out phase of the research