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Anselmo A. Lastra is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also serves as Director of Graduate Studies. Dr. Lastra received a B.S.E.E. from the Georgia Institute of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Duke University. Prior to joining UNC-Chapel Hill, he was a project manager at Coulter Electronics, leading the development of medical instrumentation. He also served as a consultant at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Currently he is the software manager for the Pixel-Planes/PixelFlow research team at UNC-Chapel Hill. This research group is currently working on designs for image-based rendering. They recently completed PixelFlow, a scaleable graphics computer developed jointly with Hewlett-Packard Corp. At SIGGRAPH 97, PixelFlow was demonstrated rendering over 33 million triangles per second.