Currently, a Principal Software Engineer at ITA Software
Previously, at Exa Corporation and before that at Proficiency, Inc.
Ph.D., 1999, Prof. Ari Requicha in the Programmable Automation Laboratory.
B.Sc., 1994, Mathematics and Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
My interests include Computer Graphics, Geometric Modeling, Computational Geometry, Geometric Reasoning, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Geometry in general.
A. Rappoport, S. Spitz, and M. Etzion, "Two-Dimensional Selections for Feature-Based Data Exchange", Geometric Modeling and Processing 2006, July 26 - 28, 2006, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
A. Rappoport, S. Spitz, and M. Etzion, "One-Dimensional Selections for Feature-Based Data Exchange", 2005 ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, June 2005, MIT.
S. Spitz and A. Rappoport, "Integrated Feature-Based and Geometric CAD Data Exchange", Proceedings, Solid Modeling '04, June 2004, Genova, Italy, ACM Press.
Ari Rappoport and Steven Spitz, "Boundary Representation per Feature Methods and Systems", Proficiency, Ltd., European Patent Office.
Michal Etzion, Ari Rappoport and Steven Spitz, "Method and Apparatus for Edge Correlation between Design Objects", Proficiency, Ltd., European Patent Office.
Michal Etzion, Ari Rappoport and Steven Spitz, "Face Correlation between Computer Aided Design Objects", Proficiency, Ltd., European Patent Office.
A. A. G. Requicha and S. N. Spitz, "Spatial modeling and reasoning for automatic dimensional inspection", Proceedings of the 7th Workshop GEO-7, Parma, Italy, October 2-4, 2000.
S. N. Spitz and A. A. G. Requicha, "Multiple-Goals Path Planning for Coordinate Measuring Machines", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2000), San Francisco, California, April 22-28, 2000.
S. N. Spitz, "Dimensional Inspection Planning for Coordinate Measuring Machines", PhD thesis, University of Southern California, Department of Computer Science, August 1999.
S. N. Spitz and A. A. G. Requicha, "Hierarchical Constraint Satisfaction for High-Level Dimensional Inspection Planning", Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP'99), Porto, Portugal, July 21-24, 1999.
S. N. Spitz and A. A. G. Requicha, "Accessibility Analysis Using Computer Graphics Hardware", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 6, no. 3, July-September 2000.
S. N. Spitz, A. J. Spyridi and A. A. G. Requicha, "Accessibility Analysis for Planning of Dimensional Inspection with Coordinate Measuring Machines", IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 714-727, August 1999. (An earlier version is available as IRIS Technical Report IRIS-98-360, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, University of Southern California, March 1998.)
S. N. Spitz and A. Rappoport, "A Confinement-Based Hierarchy for Convex Differences Aggregates", IRIS Technical Report IRIS-99-366, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, University of Southern California, February 1999.
A. Rappoport and S. N. Spitz, "Interactive Boolean Operations for Conceptual Design of 3-D Solids", In Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 269-278, August 1997.
S. N. Spitz, "Interactive Boolean operations and collision detection on polyhedral solids", Amirim Project Report, Institute of Computer Science, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, July 1994.