Andries van Dam

Curriculum Vitae

Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education
and
Professor of Computer Science

Brown University, Providence, RI 02912

phone: (401) 863-7640, fax: (401) 863-7657

email: avd@cs.brown.edu

Education

B.S., Engineering Sciences (with Honors), Swarthmore College, 1960

M.S., Electrical Engineering, Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1963

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1966

Dissertation topic: A Study of Digital Processing of Pictorial Data

Table of Contents

Research Interests
Professional Appointments
Consultancies
Publications
Books and NRC Reports
Articles
Invited Lectures since 2000
Service To the Profession
Academic Honors, Research Grants, Fellowships and Honorary Societies Honors

Research Interests

My research has concerned computer graphics, hypermedia systems, post-WIMP user interfaces, including pen-centric computing, and educational software. I have been working for four decades on systems for creating and reading electronic books with interactive illustrations for use in teaching and research.

Professional Appointments

2002-2006

Vice President for Research, Brown University

1995-

Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education Chair

1995-1998

Director, National Science Foundation Science & Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization

1992-1995

L. Herbert Ballou University Professor Chair

1980-1986

Visiting Scientific Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

1979-

Professor of Computer Science, Brown University

1979-1985

Chairman, Department of Computer Science, Brown University

1978-1979

Sabbatical Leave, Visiting Professor, University of Geneva, and Scientific Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

1976-1979

Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Brown University

Chairman, Program in Computer Science, Brown University

1975-1977

Adjunct Visiting Professor, University of Rhode Island (to teach in-house courses on Computer Graphics at Naval Underwater Systems Center, New London and Newport, Rhode Island)

1972-1976

Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University

1971-1972

Sabbatical Leave, Visiting Professor, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands

1968-1972

Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University 1965-1968

Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University

Consultancies

2007 Member, Technical Advisory Board, GyPSii

2005: Vincent and Elkins, Kenyon and Kenyon, expert consulting for Tecmo

2000-2001: Chairman, Technical Advisory Board, E-Quill

Member, Board of Directors, Synomics

Chairman, Technical Advisory Board, ThinkShare

1999-2005: Member, Board of Directors, ContextMedia, Providence, RI

1998-: Technical advising, Phoam

1996-1999: Chairman, Numinous Technologies Incorporated, Seattle, WA

1995: Technical Advisory Board, Peer Group Systems, Inc. (PGSI), Seattle, Washington.

1994: Brown and Baine, expert witness for Autodesk in a trade secret litigation

1993-2003: Member, Technical Advisory Board, Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics, Inc., Providence, RI and Darmstadt, Germany

1992-1994: Member, Technical Advisory Board, Ithaca Software, Alameda, CA

1992-2007: Member, Technical Advisory Board, and consultant, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

1990-1993: Chairman, Technical Advisory Board, ShoGraphics, Mountain View, CA

Member, College of Computing National Advisory Board, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

1990-1991: Chairman, Technical Advisory Board, Prime Computer, Inc., CAD Division, Bedford, MA

1990: Co-founder, Chief Scientist, and Chairman of Technical Advisory Board Electronic Book Technologies, Providence, RI

1988-1992: Chief Scientist, BLOC Development, Coral Gables, FL

1987-1988: Cravath, Swaine and Moore, expert witness for IBM in a patent litigation

1986-1988: Member, Technical Advisory Board, Context Corp., Beaverton, OR

1985-1988: Senior Scientist and Chairman of Technical Advisory Board, Stardent Computer, Newton, MA

1985-1987: Consulting Scientist, CADRE Technology, Providence, RI

1984-1986: Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Metagraphics, Woburn, MA

1983-1985: IBM World Trade Americas/Far East Corporation, North Tarrytown, NY

1982-1986: Member, Electronic Systems Board, Gould, Rolling Meadows, IL

1981-1983: CIT ALCATEL, Paris, France

1980-1988: President, van Dam, Inc.

1980-1985: Exxon Research and Engineering Division, Florham Park, NJ

1980-1981: Summagraphics, Bridgeport, CT

1978-1979: Prime Computer, Inc., Framingham, MA

Bobst Graphic, Lausanne, and Hermes Precisa, Yverdon, Switzerland

1977-1978: Department of the Army

1975-1979: Software Laboratory, Raytheon Submarine Signal Division, Portsmouth, RI

1975-1977: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC

1971-1977: Information Systems and Automation Division, Phillips Corp., Eindhoven, Netherlands

1970-1988: President, Text Systems, Inc., Barrington, RI

1970-1975: General Motors Research Center, Warren, MI

1970-1972: Government Intelligence Community, Washington, D

1970: Director, NCSS Providence Research Center

1965-1966: Leeds and Northrup, PA

1961-1962: RCA, Cherry Hill, NJ

Publications

Books and NRC Reports

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Articles

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Invited Lectures since 2000

2008

Invited Speaker, "When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard", Google (January)

Invited Speaker, "When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard", Sun Microsystems (January)

Distinguished Lecturer, "When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard", SCI University of Utah (March)

Invited Speaker, "As We May Work", Enterprise 2.0 (April)

Distinguished Lecturer, "When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard", Datalogisk Institut, Aarhus Universitet (May)

2007

Distinguished Lecturer, "When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard", UCLA, 2007 (March)

Invited Speaker, "A Radical Approach to Teaching Object-Oriented Programming", CCSCNE, 2007 (April)

Distinguished Lecturer, "When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard", Amsterdam CWI, 2007 (April)

Distinguished Lecturer, "When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard", MSR China, 2007 (May)

Invited Speaker, "When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard", MS Faculty Summit, 2007 (July)

Distinguished Lecturer, "When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard", Purdue University, 2007 (August)

Distinguished Lecturer, "When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard", Wheaton College, 2007 (September)

Keynote, "When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard", Georgia Tech GVU 15th Anniversary, 2007 (October)

2006

Distinguished Lecturer, "Immersive Virtual Reality in Scientific Visualization", Simon Fraser University, 2006 (March)

Distinguished Lecturer, "Immersive Virtual Reality in Scientific Visualization", Waterloo University, 2006 (April)

Invited Speaker, "The Microsoft Center for Research on Pen-Centric Computing", Microsoft Faculty Summit, 2006 (July)

Distinguished Lecturer, "When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard", Adobe, 2006 (December)

Invited Speaker, " When is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard ", TTI Vanguard, The Advanced Technology Forum for Senior Executives, 2006 (December)

2005

Invited Speaker, "Immersive Virtual Reality for Scientific Visualization", NYU, 2005 (February)

Invited Speaker, "Visualization at Brown: Scientific and Education Research", CIO, 2005 (April)

Invited Speaker, "Next Generation Educational Software: Why We Need It and a Research Agenda for Getting It", Sun Microsystems, 2005 (May)

Invited Speaker, "Scientific Visualization Research at Brown University", PNNL Fellow Lecture Series, 2005 (July)

Distinguished Lecturer, "Immersive Virtual Reality in Scientific Visualization", University of Texas, Dallas, 2005 (November)

Distinguished Lecturer, "Immersive Virtual Reality in Scientific Visualization", The College of William and Mary, 2005 (December)

2004

Keynote Speaker, "Distributed Computing for Graphics: Then and Now", ICDCS 2004 (March)

Invited Speaker, "Interaction as Human-centered Computing: Problems, Progress, and Prospects", Digication 2004 (May)

Invited Speaker, "Next Generation Educational Software: Why We Need It & A Research Agenda for Getting It", Foundation for the Future of Higher Education Aspen Symposium, 2004 (September)

Invited Speaker, "Immersive Virtual Reality for Scientific Visualization", Department of Energy, 2004 (December)

2003

Plenary Speaker, "Beyond Today's Web-based Educational Content", HICSS-36 2003 (January)

Distinguished Lecturer, "User Interfaces: Disappearing, Dissolving, and Evolving", UCSB (June)

Keynote Speaker, with Anne Morgan Spalter, "Modeling and Visualization: The Role of Computer Graphics", IVLA (International Visual Literacy Association), (October)

Distinguished Lecturer, "Visualization: New Dimensions, New Domains, Old Questions", Brown University, TCASCV (Technology Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Visualization) (November)

2002

Invited Speaker, "Immersive VR for Scientific Visualization: A Progress Report", University of Michigan, (January)

Distinguished Lecturer, "Immersive VR for Scientific Visualization: A Progress Report", ETH Zurich, Switzerland (February)

Keynote Speaker, "Next Generation Educational Software", EdMedia 2002 (June)

Distinguished Lecturer, "Immersive Virtual Reality for Scientific Visualization", University of Maryland, (November)

Invited Speaker, "Immersive Electronic Books for Teaching Surgical Procedures", CREST Symposium on Telecommunication, Teleimmersion, and Telexistence 2002 (December)

2001

Invited Speaker, "Immersive VR for Scientific Visualization: A Progress Report", MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA (March)

Keynote Speaker, " User Interfaces: Disappearing, Dissolving, and Evolving", Celebration of Professor Jose Encarnacao's 60th Birthday, Darmstadt, Germany (May) 2000

Keynote Speaker, " Exploratories: Web-based Interactive Environments for Teaching and Learning", SigCSE2000, Austin, Texas (March)

Keynote Speaker, "Immersive Virtual Reality for Scientific Visualization: A Progress Report", VR2000, New Brunswick, NJ (March)

Service To the Profession

2008:

Chair, Computing Research Association Education (CRA-E) committee

Member, Board of Advisors, WGBH/ACM New Image of Computing (NIC) initiative

2007:

Chair, ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award committee

Chair, Brandeis University External Review Committee

Member, Editorial Board of Computers and Graphics, Pergamon Press

Member, National Research Council CSTB Healthcare Informatics committee

2005-: Member, ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award committee

2002-2005

IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal committee

1998-2002: Member, NSF CISE advisory committee

1998: Member, DOE ASCII Data and Visualization Corridors initiative advisory committee

Member, National Research Council CSTB Information Technology literacy committee

1997: ACM97 Chairman, 1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Providence, RI (April)

1994-1998: Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), (August)

1994: Member, Editorial Board, SIGGRAPH Books Series with ACM Press Books, and Addison-Wesley Publishing Company (January)

Co-founder, NSF Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization, Summer Workshop on Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics, Brown University, Providence, RI (June/July)

Course Panelist, Developing Advanced Virtual Reality Applications, SIGGRAPH '94, Orlando, FL (July)

Course Panelist, Research Frontiers in Virtual Reality, SIGGRAPH '94, Orlando, FL (July)

Course Panelist, Why is 3D Interaction So Hard, and What Can we Really Do About it?, SIGGRAPH '94, Orlando, FL (July)

Program Committee Member, 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Monterey, CA (November)

1993: Member, National Research Council, Committee on Virtual Reality Research and Development

Program Committee, Senior Reviewer SIGGRAPH '93, Anaheim, California (August)

Course Panelist, Implementing Virtual Reality, SIGGRAPH '93, Anaheim, California (August)

Co-founder, A New Seminar for Secondary Mathematics Teachers The Mathematics of Computer Graphics, Brown University, Providence, RI (April/May)

Co-founder, NSF Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization, Summer Workshop on Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics, Brown University, Providence, RI (June/July)

Panelist, The Role of New Information Technology in a Modern Curriculum, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA (July)

1992: Program Committee, Senior Reviewer SIGGRAPH '92, Chicago, IL (July)

Program Committee, Third Eurographics Workshop on Object-Oriented Graphics, Champery, Switzerland (October)

1991: National Science Foundation, Chairman, Workshop on Research Infrastructure (July)

1990-1992 : Member of Study Committee to Assess the Scope and Direction for Computer Science and Technology, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications

1990: Chairman, Ad Hoc working group on Graphics Application Frameworks

1989-1991: Member, Nominating Committee, ACM

1989: Advisory Editor, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Academic Press

1987-1988 : Member, Advisory Board, SIGGRAPH

1987: Program Committee, 1988 CERN Summer School

1985-1986 : Chairman, Software Systems Award Committee, ACM

1986-1988 : Member, Computer Science and Technology Board, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences

1986: Invited Lecturer, Asia Regional College on Microprocessors, Hefei, PRC

1985-1987: Chairman, Computing Research Board, (renamed Computing Research Association)

Chairman, PHIGS+ Computer Graphics Working Group

1985: Chairman, Visiting Committee to evaluate computer science concentration and computing services, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA (April)

1983-1984: Member, CSNet Executive Board

1983-1985: Member of review board for Foxboro's Bristol Fellowship program

1983-1991: Member, Computer Science Board (renamed Computing Research Association)

1983 : Co-director and lecturer, School on Microprocessors, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (April)

Organizer of research symposium to mark the retirement of Marvin Denicoff of ONR (December)

Member, Editorial Board of Computers and Graphics, Pergamon Press

1982: Invited lecturer, CERN Summer School in Computing, Zinal, Switzerland (August)

1981-1986: Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Graphics

1981: Co-director and lecturer, School on Microprocessors, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (September)

1980-1986: Visiting Scientific Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

1980: Invited lecturer, CERN Summer School in Computing, Athens, Greece (September)

1979 : Program Organizer and Chairman of SEAS Spring Technical Meeting on Graphic Man-Machine Interaction Methodology (May)

Invited participant in IFIP WG5.2 Seillac Workshop on Interaction Methodology (May)

1978: Guest editor of IEEE Computer, Special Issue on Distributed Processing (January)

Guest editor of ACM Computing Surveys, Special Issue on Computer Graphics Standards (December)

1977: Panel Chairman, "Computer Graphics," IFIP Congress 77, Toronto

1976, 1977: Organizer and chairperson, Distributed Processing Workshops I and II, Brown University

1976-1978: Member of ACM SIGGRAPH Graphics Standard Planning Committee and co-designer of the proposed "Core" Graphics Standard

1976: Invited participant to IFIP WG5.2 Seillac Workshop on Graphics Standards

Session Chairman, ACM SIGGRAPH 3rd Annual Conference on Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques and Image Processing

1974: Session Chairman, ACM SIGGRAPH NBS Workshop on Machine-Independent Graphics

Member of Editorial Board and Contributor, The Encyclopedia of Computer Science

Session Chairman, ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

1973-1977: Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Computers and Graphics

1972: Conference organizer, IFIP Working Conference on Graphic Languages, Vancouver, B.C.

1971-1981: Editor, Computer Graphics and Image Processing

1971: Session Chairman, "Computer-Aided Design," IFIP Congress 71, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

1969-1970: Consulting editor for Auerbach Corporation's Graphics Data Processing Reports

1968-1970: Co-founder, board member and lecturer, ACM SIGGRAPH, Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics

1968: Session Chairman,"Data Structures for Computer Graphics," FJCC, San Francisco

1967-1978: Consulting editor in Computer Science, Holt, Rinehart and Winston

1967-1970: Co-founder, Board member and lecturer, ACM Professional Development Seminar Series

1967-1969: Contributor, Engineering Concepts Curriculum Project of the ACM Commission on Engineering Education (principal author of five chapters in The Man-Made World)

1967: Co-founder of ACM SIGGRAPH

Academic Honors, Research Grants, Fellowships and Honorary Societies Honors

2007: Received an honorary Ph.D from the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.

2005: Co-Chairman of the Rhode Island Governor's Science and Technology Advisory Council (STAC)

2004: American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow Award

2003: Honorary General Chair of IEEE ICDCS 2003

Chairman of the Rhode Island Governor's Science and Technology Council

Board Member of the Mayor's Providence Economic Development Partnership Council

2002: CRA (Computing Research Association) Distinguished Service Award

Brown University Sheridan Award for Teaching

2000: ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education

American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellow Award

1999: IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal

1998-2004: Trustee of RISD (Rhode Island School of Design)

1996: Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Received an honorary Ph.D from Swarthmore College

1995: Named to the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education Chair

Received an honorary Ph.D from Darmstadt Technical University in Germany

1994: IEEE Fellow Award

ACM Fellow Award

1993: ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award

1992-1995: Named to the L. Herbert Ballou University Professor Chair

1991: SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics

1990: 1990 NCGA Academic Award

1988: State of Rhode Island Governor's Science and Technology Award

1984: IEEE Centennial Medal

1974: Society for Information Display's "Special Recognition Award"

1971-1972: Fulbright Fellowship

1960: IEEE (IRE) Delaware Valley Section "Student of the Year" Award; Sigma Tau, Sigma Xi

B.S. Degree with Honors, Swarthmore College


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