Thomas A. DeFanti
Thomas Albert "Tom" DeFanti (born September 18, 1948) is an American
Education and early life
Born September 18, 1948, in
Work
In 1973, he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and with Daniel J. Sandin, he founded the Circle Graphics Habitat, now known as the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL).[5]
At UIC, DeFanti further developed the GRASS language, and later created an improved version, ZGRASS, implemented on the low-cost
DeFanti contributed greatly to the growth of the SIGGRAPH organization and conference. He co-organized early film and video presentations (which became the Electronic Theatre) beginning in 1973, started the SIGGRAPH Video Review archive of computer graphics research in 1979, and served as Chair of the group from 1981 to 1985.[12][13]
DeFanti is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He has received the 1988 ACM Outstanding Contribution Award, the 2000 SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award, and the UIC Inventor of the Year Award.[12]
In 2018 DeFanti's work and contribution were included in the Chicago New Media 1973-1992 exhibition, curated by jonCates.[14][15]
Publications
Select books
- Brown, Maxine; McCormick, Bruce H.; DeFanti, Thomas A. (1987), Visualization in Scientific Computing (PDF), ACM (published July 1987)
Select articles and papers
- DeFanti, T. A.; Sandin, D. J.; Ainsworth, R. A. (1976). "Control structures for performance graphics". The papers of the ACM symposium on Graphic languages. ACM. pp. 79–84.
- DeFanti, T. (June 1976). "The Digital Component of the Circle Graphics Habitat". AFIPS '76: Proceedings of the national computer conference and exposition. pp. 195–203.
- Campbell, Graham; DeFanti, Thomas A.; Frederiksen, Jeff; Joyce, Stephen A.; Leske, Lawrence A. (August 1986). "Two bit/pixel full color encoding". SIGGRAPH '86: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques. ACM. pp. 215–223.
- DeFanti, Thomas A.; Brown, Maxine D.; McCormick, Bruce H. (August 1989). "Visualization: Expanding Scientific and Engineering Research Opportunities". Computer. 22 (8). IEEE: 12–25. S2CID 17357523.
- Hart, John C.; DeFanti, Thomas A. (July 1991). "Efficient antialiased rendering of 3-D linear fractals". SIGGRAPH '91: Proceedings of the 18th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques. ACM. pp. 91–1008.
- Cruz-Neira, Caroline; Sandin, Daniel; DeFanti, Thomas; R.V. Kenyon and J.C. Hart, "The CAVE: Audio Visual Experience Automatic Virtual Environment," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 65–72, June, 1992.
- DeFanti, Thomas A.; Sandin, Daniel J.; Cruz-Neira, Carolina (October 1993). "A 'Room' with a 'View'". Spectrum. 30 (10). IEEE: 30–33, 39. S2CID 40023851.
- DeFanti, Tom; Stevens, Rick (1999), "Teleimmersion", in Foster, Ian; Kesselman, Carl (eds.), The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 131–155, ISBN 978-1-55860-475-9
References
- ^ "People > Staff and Academic Personnel > Tom DeFanti". Retrieved 13 October 2009.
- ISBN 978-1452265285– via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Future of VR Conference". UCSD. 2015.
- ^ ISBN 978-4-431-70005-0.
- ISBN 978-1452265285– via Google Books.
- ISBN 978-0-7357-0046-8.
- S2CID 7119184.)
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- ISBN 978-1-55860-353-0.
- ^ "TransLight/Starlight: About". Retrieved 13 October 2009.
- ^ "OptIPuter". Retrieved 13 October 2009.
- ^ a b "2000 ACM SIGGRAPH Awards". Archived from the original on 22 November 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
- ^ "Dig This! SIGGRAPH's Electronic Theater Celebrates 25 Years of Discovery by Wendy Jackson". awn.com. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
- ^ Picard, Caroline (November 28, 2018). "'Chicago New Media 1973-1992' pays tribute to the city's contribution to video games and digital art". Chicago Reader. Retrieved September 26, 2018.
- ISBN 978-0-252-08407-2.
External links
- Thomas A. DeFanti website at uic.edu
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