Edited by author 11-03-2007 11:53 PM
 In response to post by 'clipi': I am still "around" and, as you see, even clean up this by now dead forum once a (few) month(s), as promised. Currently I do not closely follow events in what is now "alive, well and very vibrant" CG community and although certainly "hear things", do not consider it appropriate for me to comment on CURRENT state of affairs any longer. Of course, you will be better off not asking me for any advice in the first place given my, well, rather equivocal reputation in CG community. But who knows - maybe someone else still reads this forum and can give you some useful "insights and suggestions" if you post your questions/concerns here and maybe other people find such discussion useful as well.

 Thanks for wishing me good luck - we all need it ...
 M.A.

First of all I just want to say that I am sorry tha Michael is leaving
the field. He had made such great contributions to the CG world that
it certainly will miss his expertise. I hope at least that he would
be around to give insigths or suggestions for other people and share
his knowledge. Is there anyway other way I could personaly contact him?
Thanks so much and good luck in your new field.

I think the computer graphics community is alive, well and very vibrant. However, I am a little pissed off about grad school in general. Because funding can be difficult to come by for any research program, this is not CG specific. But I hate fundraising when it gets in the way of actual research.