James D. Foley
About James D. Foley
Also Known As
- Jim Foley
Affiliations
- Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), College of Computing, Professor Emeritus
- George Washington University
- University of North Carolina
Location
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Bio
SIGGRAPH 2022
James Foley is a computing researcher, innovative educator and respected author in both computer graphics and human-computer interaction, one of the SIGGRAPH pioneers who led the establishment of human-computer interaction as a major discipline. He is Professor and Fleming Chair Emeritus in the Georgia Tech College of Computing. He co-authored computer graphics texts, is a Member of NAE and Fellow of AAAS, ACM and IEEE. He received ACM SIGGRAPH’s Lifetime and ACM SIGCHI’s Lifetime Achievement Awards. The GVU Center, which he founded, ranked number one in 1996 US News and World Report for graduate computer science work in graphics & user interaction. From 1996-99, he directed Mitsubishi Electric’s US Research Labs; from 2001 to 2005, he chaired the Computing Research Association – an organization of 250 computer science departments, professional societies, and research labs. In addition to several hundred peer-reviewed articles and books, he is the co-author of several widely used textbooks in the field of computer graphics, notably Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, with over 400,000 copies sold in ten languages.
SIGGRAPH 1997
Associate Professor, The George Washington University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Washington, D.C. 20052
SIGGRAPH 1984
James D. Foley is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at George Washington University and is president of Computer Graphics Consultants, Inc. Active in computer graphics since 1966, Foley is co-author of Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics and is associate editor of Transactions on Graphics. Until recently, he had been the editor of Communications of the ACM’s graphics and image processing section. His research interests are computer graphics and user-computer interfaces.
SIGGRAPH 1982
Jim Foley is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The George Washington University and is President of Computer Graphics Consultants, Inc. He has previously held positions at Information Control Systems, the University of North Carolina, and the Bureau of the Census. Active in computer graphics since 1966, Dr. Foley has until recently been the editor of Communications of the ACM’s Graphics and Image Processing Section, is co-author of “ Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics,” and is associate editor of Transactions on Graphics. His research interests are computer graphics and user-computer interfaces.
SIGGRAPH Member Profile
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Awards and Recognition
- SIGGRAPH 1997 Steven Anson Coons Award: Foley
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member, inducted in 2018
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH 2001: Technical Papers
Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2014: Computer Animation Festival
Conference Contributions
Experiences
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Birds of a Feather
Learning
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Business
Courses
Panels
Retrospective
Technical Papers
Sessions Moderated
- “On the Organization of a Remote Low Cost Intelligent Graphics Terminal” by Dill and Thomas
- “Configurable Applications for Graphics Employing Satellites” by Hamlin and Foley
Courses Organized
- “How to Design User-Computer Interfaces” by Foley, Sibert and Thomas
- “How to Design User-Computer Interfaces” by Foley and Sibert
- “Introduction to Raster Graphics” Chaired by James (Jim) D. Foley
- “How to Design User-Computer Interfaces” by Foley
- “How to Design User-Computer Interfaces” by Foley
- “How to Design User-Computer Interfaces”
- “How to Design Computer User Interfaces” Chaired by
- “Workshop on Interactive Graphics” by Foley
Other Information
Roles
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member
- Archive Contributor
- Awardee
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Business Symposium Presenter
- Computer Animation Jury Member
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Panel Presenter
- Panels Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Retrospective Presenter
- SIGGRAPH Executive Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH Executive Committee Vice-Chair
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
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