Pete Braccio has a BA in Physics and Astronomy and an MS in Physics so, of course, he’s been
a ditch digger, a waiter, a bouncer, a bartender, a Naval Officer, an Oceanographer, and a Computer Network Administrator. He was the 2011 SIGGRAPH Conference Chair, was The Studio chair four times, and headed the SIGGRAPH conference donations program for several years. He has one wife, two daughters, a grandson, three cats, a dog, and many mandolins, guitars, fiddles, and other musical instruments. He’s currently happily retired and lives on the upper left corner of the continental US.