James D. Foley

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name = James D. Foley


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birth_date = Birth date and age|1942|7|20
birth_place = Pennsylvania, USA
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residence = Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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field = Computer graphics,
Human-computer interaction
work_institution = Georgia Tech,
GVU Center
alma_mater = University of Michigan,
Lehigh University
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known_for = Computer graphics textbooks
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prizes = IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, NAE Member, ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award, ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award
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James D. Foley (born July 20, 1942) is Professor, Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications, and interim dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). [ cite pressrelease | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing | url=http://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/james-foley-named-stephen-fleming-chair-in-telecommunications | accessdate-2008-02-03 | title=James Foley Named Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications | year=2001 ] [ cite web | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing | url=http://www.cc.gatech.edu/directory/faculty/faculty/directory/james-foley | accessdate=2008-02-03 | title=Faculty Director: James Foley ] He is perhaps best known as the co-author of several widely-used textbooks in the field of computer graphics, of which over 400,000 copies are in print and translated in ten languages. cite web | url=http://old.siggraph.org/awards/1997/Coons.html | accessdate=2008-02-03 | publisher=ACM SIGGRAPH | title=1997 Stephen A. Coons Award ] cite pressrelease | url=http://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/features/foley-named-interim-dean-of-the-college-of-computing | title=Foley Named Interim Dean of the College of Computing | accessdate=2008-07-14 | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing | year=2008 | date=2008 ] Foley presently conducts research with instructional technologies and distance education.

Biography

Born in Pennsylvania, Foley attended Lehigh University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1964. Foley was also initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa Society during this time. He received his Ph.D. in computer, information, and control engineering from the University of Michigan in 1969. [ cite web | title=James Folley: Education | url=http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Jim.Foley/education.html | title=Education | accessdate=2008-02-03 | publisher=James D. Foley ]

After completing his graduate studies, Foley was first employed by the University of North Carolina. In 1977, he accepted a faculty position at George Washington University, where he became chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Foley joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1991.

Shortly after moving to Georgia Tech, Foley founded the GVU Center, which in 1996 was ranked first by "U.S. News & World Report" for graduate computer science work in graphics and user interaction. That same year, he was appointed director of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Foley also served as editor-in-chief of "ACM Transactions on Graphics" from 1991 to 1995.

In 1997, Foley was recognized by ACM SIGGRAPH with the prestigious Steven A. Coons Award. The receipt of this biannual award places Foley among the company of computer graphics pioneers such as Jim Blinn, Edwin Catmull and Ivan Sutherland. [ cite web | url=http://www.siggraph.org/programs/awards | accessdate=2008-02-03 | publisher=ACM SIGGRAPH | title=The Steven A. Coons Award: Recipients ]

Foley accepted the position of chairman and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center America (MEITCA) in 1998, directing corporate R&D at four labs in North America. He returned to Georgia as Executive Director and then CEO of Yamacraw, Georgia's economic development initiative in the design of broadband systems, devices and chips.

Foley became chairman of the Computing Research Association (CRA) in 2001. He stepped down from this position in 2003 but remains on the CRA's board of directors.

Following the resignation of Richard DeMillo as dean of the Georgia Tech College of Computing, Foley was appointed interim dean, effective July 1, 2008.

Notable awards

* IEEE Fellow, 1986. "For contributions to computer graphics." [ cite web | publisher=IEEE | url=http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/fellows/Chronology/1986.html | title=IEEE Fellow Class of 1986 | accessdate=2008-02-03 ]
* ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, 1997.
* ACM Fellow, 1999. "Through his books, courses, papers, organizational, and professional contributions, Foley has had a broad and lasting impact on the computer graphics field and on ACM." [ cite web | url=http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=1150127&srt=all | accessdate=2008-02-03 | title=ACM Fellows Award: James D. Foley | publisher=ACM ]
* ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007. "It is difficult to think of anyone who had a larger role in the institutionalization of HCI as a discipline." [ cite web | url=http://sigchi.org/documents/awards/awards-2007.html | accessdate=2008-02-03 | publisher=ACM SIGCHI | title=SIGCHI 2007 Awards ] [ cite pressrelease | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing | date=2007-03-28 | url=http://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/jim-foley-receives-lifetime-achievement-award-from-sigchi | accessdate=2008-02-03 | title=Jim Foley Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from SIGCHI ]
* National Academy of Engineering Member, 2008. "For contributions to the establishment of the fields of computer graphics and human-computer interaction." [ cite pressrelease | url=http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=02082008 | accessdate=2008-03-29 | date=2008-02-08 | title=National Academy of Engineering Elects 65 Members and Nine Foreign Associates | publisher=National Academy of Engineering ]
* Georgia Tech Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award, 2008. "The highest honor Georgia Tech bestows on faculty." [ cite web | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing | url=http://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/features/james-foley | accessdate=2008-02-03 | title=Distinguished Scientist, Distinguished Professor, Distinguished Man ]

elected publications

* cite book
last = Foley
first = James
coauthors = A. van Dam, S. Feiner, J. Hughes
title = C Edition, Interactive Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
publisher = Addison-Wesley
year = 1995
location = Reading, MA, USA
pages = 1174

* cite book
last = Foley
first = James
coauthors = A. van Dam, S. Feiner, J. Hughes, and R. Phillips
title = Introduction to Computer Graphics
publisher = Addison-Wesley
year = 1993
location = Reading, MA, USA
pages = 559

* cite book
last = Foley
first = James
coauthors = A. van Dam, S. Feiner, J. Hughes
title = Interactive Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
publisher = Addison-Wesley
year = 1990
location = Reading, MA, USA
pages = 1174

* cite book
last = Foley
first = James
coauthors = A. van Dam
title = Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics
publisher = Addison-Wesley (IBM Systems Programming Series)
year = 1982
location = Reading, MA, USA
pages = 664

References

External links

* [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Jim.Foley/foley.html James Foley's home page]