Scientific Visualization - Scientific Visualization Experts

Scientific Visualization Experts

Bruce H. McCormick

Bruce H. McCormick (1930–2007) was an American computer scientist, who studied Physics from MIT, Cambridge University and Harvard University in the 1950s. In the 1960s, he initiated and directed the ILLIAC III Image Processing Computer project and developed the first imaging of blood flow and macular degeneracy in the human retina. In the 1980s, he organized and chaired the first Brain Mapping Machine Design Workshop in 1985. Two years later in 1987, he developed and promoted the concept of "scientific visualization" at the National Science Foundation Advisory Panel on Graphics, Image Processing, and Workstations.

Thomas A. DeFanti

Thomas A. DeFanti (born 1948) is an American computer graphics researcher and Director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), who studied mathematics and computer information science, with a PhD in Computer Graphics Research received in 1973. He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and next he amassed a number of credits. He cofounded the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), used the EVL hardware and software for the computer animation produced for the Star Wars movie. DeFanti contributed greatly to the growth of the SIGGRAPH organization and conference.

Maxine D. Brown

Maxine D. Brown is an American computer scientist, and associate director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL). She also studied mathematics and later computer science in the 1970s. She has a long history of service to the computer graphics and supercomputing communities, and has contributed to many facets of SIGGRAPH.

Clifford A. Pickover

Clifford A. Pickover is an American author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, and science fiction, primary interested in finding new ways to expand creativity by melding art, science, mathematics, and other seemingly disparate areas of human endeavor. In the 1990s he has edited several books, like "Frontiers of Scientific Visualization" (1994) and "Visualizing Biological Information" (1995).

Lawrence Jay Rosenblum

Lawrence J. Rosenblum (born 1949) is an American mathematician, and Program Director for Graphics and Visualization at the National Science Foundation. Rosenblum's research interests include mobile augmented reality (AR), scientific and uncertainty visualization, VR displays, and applications of VR/AR systems. His research group has produced advances in mobile augmented reality (AR), scientific and uncertainty visualization, VR displays, applications of VR/AR systems, and understanding human performance in graphics systems.

Other visualisation experts in this field:

• Donna Cox
• Pat Hanrahan
• Bill Hibbard
• Jim Hoffman
• Chris Lilley (W3C)
• Julian Lombardi
• Dietmar Saupe

See further: Category:Computer graphics researchers