Frederic I. Parke – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

Frederic I. Parke

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Also Known As:


  • Fred Parke

Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • Texas A&M University

Other / Past Affiliation(s):


  • IBM Corporation
  • New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
  • University of Utah

Location:


  • Leander, Texas, United States of America

Bio:

  • Updated 2025

    Frederic I. Parke received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah where he did seminal work in facial modeling and animation. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University where he was Director of the Visualization Laboratory. His most recent work has been in the development of low cost spatially immersive visualization environments. Previously, he was at IBM in Austin working in multimedia and human centric computing including interactive facial animation. Prior, he was Professor of Computer Science and Director of the NYIT Computer Graphics Laboratory involved in broad R&D efforts in computer graphics and the development of production animation systems.  While at NYIT he was also Vice-President of Research and Development at Computer Graphics Laboratories, Inc.  He was awarded tenure as Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve University specializing in computer graphics and multi-processor architectures.  Prior to his graduate work at the University of Utah, he was an officer in the U. S. Air Force working with real-time data acquisition, interactive data visualization and systems simulations. He has an undergraduate degree in Physics.

    Face and Hand Animation

    Statement by Ed Catmul regarding the Hand and Face animation produced Fred Parke and Ed Catmul in 1971:
    “Fred and I took our first graphics course in the Fall of 1970. In the Spring, Ivan Sutherland began to teach it, and that was when Fred and I started our respective films. As I recall, we were the only two students in the course to ignore the software they provided, and wrote our own. We were also the only two who continued on in computer graphics.

    It took a while to write our respective papers in order to get them published in the Proceedings of the ACM in 1972.”

    See: “A system for computer generated movies” by Edwin Catmull https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800193.569952
    See: “Computer generated animation of faces” by Frederick I Parke https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800193.569955

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