LOS ALAMITOS, Calif.,
Oct. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Thirty-two computer visualization leaders have been
inducted into the IEEE Visualization Academy. Considered the
highest and most prestigious honor in the field of visualization,
the Academy recognizes individuals who have made substantial
contributions to the field of visualization.
Established in 2018 by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics
Technical Committee, (VGTC), the Academy chose as its first members
Visualization Career Awardees and Visualization Technical
Achievement Awardees from 2004 to 2019, making it a veritable
A-list of visualization. In its first year, the Visualization
Academy inducted recipients of the VGTC Technical and Career Awards
from 2004-2019.
"The Visualization Academy inductees are the top research
leaders of the field of visualization who have had extensive impact
on the field and its applications," says James Ahrens, Chair of the IEEE VGTC.
The VGTC is a formal subcommittee of the Technical Activities
Board (TAB) of the IEEE Computer Society, that provides technical
leadership and organization for technical activities in the areas
of visualization, computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality,
and interaction.
The 2019 Visualization Academy inductees are Stuart K. Card, Sheelagh
Carpendale, John Dill,
David S. Ebert, Thomas Ertl, Eduard Gröller, Markus Gross, Hans
Hagen, Pat Hanrahan,
Charles D. Hansen, Jeffrey M. Heer, Chris
R. Johnson, Kenneth I. Joy,
Arie E. Kaufman, Daniel A. Keim, David H.
Laidlaw, William E. Lorensen,
Kwan-Liu Ma, Jock D. Mackinlay,
Tamara Munzner, Gregory M. Nielson, Hanspeter Pfister, Frits
H. Post, Lawrence J.
Rosenblum, Ben Shneiderman,
Claudio T. Silva, John T. Stasko, Jarke J. van Wijk, Amitabh Varshney, and Anders Ynnerman.
All were officially inducted into the IEEE Visualization Academy
at a special Induction Ceremony held at the IEEE Visualization
Conference (IEEE VIS 2019) in Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada, on Tuesday,
October 22, 2019.
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