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James Foley
Former GVU Director
Now with Mitsubishi
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GVU's founding Director, James Foley, left Georgia Tech in June 1996 to
become Director of the
Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab.
At Georgia Tech, Dr. Foley was a Professor of Computer Science,
Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Director of the Graphics,
Visualization & Usability Center. Prior to Georgia Tech he was
Professor and Chairman of the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The
George Washington University.
He earned his Ph.D. from
the University of Michigan.
His interests include user interfaces and interactive computer
graphics; his current research focuses on building UIDE,
the User Interface Design Environment. Recent research funding has been
from NSF, NASA, Sun, and Siemens.
He is co-author, with A. van Dam, of Fundamentals of Interactive
Computer Graphics, and is also co-author, with
van Dam, S. Feiner, and J. Hughes, of the recently-published
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. Foley is a
Fellow of the IEEE, holds memberships in ACM, IEEE,
Human Factors Society, and Sigma Xi, and serves on the editorial
boards of Computers and Graphics. He is
Editor-in-Chief for ACM Transactions on Graphics.
Contact information:
James D. Foley
Mitsubishi Electronic Research Laboratories
201 Broadway
Cambridge, MA, 02139
E-mail: foley@merl.com
Phone: (617) 621-7500
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