Parallel Poisson Disk Sampling Li-Yi Wei Microsoft.
Geometry Clipmaps: Terrain Rendering Using Nested Regular Grids Frank Losasso Stanford University Frank Losasso Stanford University Hugues Hoppe Microsoft.
Wang Tiles for Image and Texture Generation Michael Cohen Microsoft Research Jonathan Shade University of Washington and WildTangent Stefan Hiller University.
Colt McAnlis Graphics Programmer – Blizzard 60 minutes (ish)