Ayelet Gneezy, Uri Gneezy, Leif Nelson, and Amber Brown

"Shared social responsibility: A field experiment in pay-what-you-want pricing and charitable giving." Published in Science in 2010.

This award recognizes a publication “that best explicates social psychological phenomena principally through the use of field research methods and settings and that thereby demonstrates the relevance of the discipline to communities outside of academic social psychology.” [more]

Karl D. D. Willis, Ivan Poupyrev, Scott E Hudson and Moshe Mahler from Disney Research, Pittsburgh earned the Best Paper Award at ACM UIST 2011, October 16-19, 2011, Santa Barbara, CA, for "SideBySide: Ad-hoc Multi-user Interaction with Handheld Projectors" [more]

Karl D. D. Willis, Ivan Poupyrev, Scott E Hudson and Moshe Mahler from Disney Research, Pittsburgh earned the Best Demo Award at ACM UIST 2011, October 16-19, 2011, Santa Barbara, CA, for "SideBySide: Ad-hoc Multi-user Interaction with Handheld Projectors" [more]

Ali Israr, Olivier Bau and Ivan Poupyrev from Disney Research, Pittsburgh earned the Best Demo Award at IEEE World Haptics 2011, June 21-24 in Istanbul, Turkey, for "Electrovibrations for Handheld Devices Using TeslaTouch." [more]

Darmindra Arumugam, Joshua Griffin, Dan Stancil, and David Ricketts won the best poster award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on RFID, April 12-14, 2011, in Orlando, FL. for their poster entitled "Position Tracking of an Active RFID Tag Using Magnetoquasistatic Fields" [More...]

Jessica Hodgins received the annual Computer Graphics Achievement Award at ACM SIGGRAPH 2010, July 25-29 in Los Angeles, California, for her many contributions in the field of physically based animation. [more, video]

Markus Gross received the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2010 in recognition of his outstanding technical contributions to computer graphics, particularly in the areas of point-based graphics, virtual reality systems, 3D video, and physically based animation. [more]

Disney Research, Zurich received the Tell Award for the most significant Swiss Technology and Innovation Investment in 2009. [press release]

Rob Cook received the biannual Steven A. Coons Award at ACM SIGGRAPH 2009, August 3-7 in New Orleans, Louisiana, for his numerous pioneering technical contributions to rendering, as well as for his extraordinary record of service. [more, video]

Michael Kass received the annual Computer Graphics Achievement Award at ACM SIGGRAPH 2009, August 3-7 in New Orleans, Louisiana, for his innovative contributions to image processing, animation, and modeling through physical simulation and optimization. [more, video]

Wojciech Matusik received the annual Significant New Researcher Award at ACM SIGGRAPH 2009, August 3-7 in New Orleans, Louisiana, in recognition of his original and decisive contributions to computer graphics, particularly in the area of data-driven material representations and innovative systems for data acquisition and display. [more, video]