Balázs Jako

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Balázs Jákó, a Hungarian senior research engineer at PowerVR research, Imagination Technologies, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, UK, with experience in computer graphics, GPU programming, image processing, realtime rendering, software design and development, computer games, and computer chess. He holds a M.Sc. from Technical University of Budapest on the topic of Fast Hydraulic and Thermal Erosion on GPU. Balázs Jákó is author of the FPS game engine Merlin3D using OpenGL, written in C++ and Lua, and is further author of the chess engine Merlin, which competed at various Hungarian Chessprogram Open tournaments, where it won three times.

=Selected Publications=
 * Balázs Jákó (2011). Fast Hydraulic and Thermal Erosion on GPU. M.Sc. thesis, Supervisor Balázs Tóth, Eurographics 2011, pdf
 * Balázs Jákó (2016). Hardware accelerated hybrid rendering on PowerVR GPUs. IEEE 20th Jubilee International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems

=Blog Posts=
 * Porting Back to Linux I by Balázs Jákó, Merlin3d blog, October 13, 2011
 * Lua Scripting Just Have Been Added by Balázs Jákó, Merlin3d blog, October 27, 2011
 * Porting Back to Linux II by Balázs Jákó, Merlin3d blog, November 24, 2011
 * Correlated Multi-Jittered Sampling on GPU by Balázs Jákó, Merlin3d blog, October 04, 2018

=External Links=
 * Balázs Jákó LinkedIn
 * Balázs Jákó (@Balazs_Jako) | Twitter
 * Balazs Jako's ICGA Tournaments

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