Jose Luis Encarnação
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Computer Science, _Professor
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD)
Location:
- Darmstadt, Germany
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Excerpt from Wikipedia:
José Luis Moreira da Encarnação is a Portuguese computer scientist, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany and a senior technology and innovation advisor to governments, multinational companies, research institutions and organizations, and foundations. He is involved in the development of research agendas and innovation strategies for socio-economic development with a focus on emerging economies. He is also a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)and the German Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). He is an elected member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy (USA) and an elected honorary member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Portugal).
Professor Encarnação started his academic career in Computer Graphics at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) and at the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute in Berlin. Subsequently, he held research and academic positions at the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute in Berlin (1968-1972) and at the Universität des Saarlandes (1972 – 1975).
From 1975 to 2009 he was a full professor of Computer Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Germany, and the head of its Interactive Graphics Research Group (TUD–GRIS). Since October 2009 he is Professor Emeritus of the TU Darmstadt.
In 1977, he and his research group introduced the Graphical Kernel System (GKS) as the first ISO standard for low-level computer graphics.
Professor Encarnação is author or co-author of more than 500 publications in reviewed international journals and conferences[6] and was the responsible advisor or co-advisor of more than 200 doctoral theses in Computer Graphics and related areas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Luis_Encarna%C3%A7%C3%A3o
Award(s):
- SIGGRAPH 1995 Steven Anson Coons Award: Encarnação
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