Biography:John F. Hughes
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John F. Hughes | |
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| Alma mater | U.C. Berkeley, Princeton |
| Known for | Computer graphics textbooks |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer graphics |
| Institutions | Brown University |
| Thesis | Invariants of Regular Homotopy and Bordism of Low Dimensional Immersions (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robion Kirby |
| Doctoral students | Cindy Grimm |
John F. "Spike" Hughes is a Professor of Computer Science at Brown University.[1]
Contributions
Hughes' research is in computer graphics, particularly those aspects of graphics involving substantial mathematics. He is perhaps best known as the co-author of many widely used textbooks in the field of computer graphics.[2]
Hughes is an avid sailor, and for years maintained the FAQ for the Usenet rec.boats group.[3]
Selected publications
- Foley, James; A. van Dam; S. Feiner; J. Hughes (1995). C Edition, Interactive Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. Reading, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley. p. 1174.
- Foley, James; A. van Dam; S. Feiner; J. Hughes; R. Phillips (1993). Introduction to Computer Graphics. Reading, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley. p. 559.
- Foley, James; A. van Dam; S. Feiner; J. Hughes (1990). Interactive Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. Reading, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley. p. 1174.
References
- ↑ "Hughes and Laidlaw Promoted to Professor; Greenwald and Lysyanskaya Promoted to Associate Professor". Brown University. 2008. http://www.cs.brown.edu/news/2008/0908.promotions.html. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
- ↑ "John Hughes". http://cs.brown.edu/~jfh/contact/contact.htm.
- ↑ "Pre-introduction". http://cs.brown.edu/~jfh/boats/FAQ/node1.html.
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