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Leonardo Electronic Directory
Thomas A. DeFanti
| Thomas A. DeFanti Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago 851 South Morgan St. Room 1120 M/C 152 Chicago, IL 60607-7053 U.S.A. Tel: (312) 996-3002 Fax: (312) 413-7585 Email: tom@uic.edu Web: www.evl.uic.edu www.startap.net www.startap.net/ www.cs.uic.edu |
Thomas A. DeFanti, Ph.D., at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is
a director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), a
distinguished professor and a distinguished professor emeritus in
the department of Computer Science, and the director of the Software
Technologies Research Center. At the University of California, San
Diego, DeFanti is a research scientist at the California Institute
for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). DeFanti
has been an internationally recognized expert in computer graphics since
the early 1970s. DeFanti has amassed a number of credits,
including: use of EVL hardware and software for the computer
animation produced for the 1977 movie Star Wars; contributor and
co-editor of the 1987 National Science Foundation-sponsored report
"Visualization in Scientific Computing;" and recipient of the 1988 ACM
Outstanding Contribution Award. He was appointed an ACM Fellow in
1994. He shares recognition along with EVL director Daniel J.
Sandin for conceiving the CAVE virtual reality theater in 1991.
Striving for a more than a decade now to connect high-resolution
visualization and virtual reality devices over long distances,
DeFanti has collaborated with Maxine Brown of UIC to lead state,
national and international teams to build the most advanced
production-quality networks available to academics, with major NSF
funding. In the USA, DeFanti established the 10 Gigabit Ethernet
CAVEwave research network between Washington DC, Chicago, Seattle,
and San Diego as a model for future high-end science and engineering
collaboration infrastructure. |
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