James (Jim) D. Foley

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center, Executive Vice President

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  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • University of North Carolina
  • The George Washington University

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  • Washington DC, United States of America

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  • 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.

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