- Brian A. Barsky
Brian A. Barsky, born in
Montréal , is a Professor at theUniversity of California, Berkeley working incomputer graphics andgeometric modeling as well as inoptometry andvision science . He is a Professor of Computer Science and Vision Science and an Affiliate Professor of Optometry. He is also a member of the Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, an inter-campus program, between UC Berkeley andUC San Francisco .Education
Barsky holds a a Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of Utah inSalt Lake City , an M.S. in computer graphics and computer science fromCornell University in Ithaca, and a D.C.S. in engineering and a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science fromMcGill University inMontréal .Awards
Barsky won an IBM Faculty Development Award and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. He is a fellow of the
American Academy of Optometry (F.A.A.O.).Books
He is a co-author or author of several books: "An Introduction to Splines for Use in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling", "Making Them Move: Mechanics, Control, and Animation of Articulated Figures", and "Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling Using Beta-splines". See
List of books in computational geometry .Contact Lenses
Barsky developed a novel
contact lens design to help restore vision to people withcornea problems [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E2D81531F931A2575AC0A9649C8B63] .References
External links
* [http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~barsky/ Brian A. Barsky's home page at U.C. Berkeley]
* [http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~barsky/biog.html Brian A. Barsky's biographical sketch on home page at U.C. Berkeley]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E2D81531F931A2575AC0A9649C8B63 September 12, 2002 article in New York Times]
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Barsky:Brian_A=.html Published papers]
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