Kenneth E. Torrance
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- Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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Dr. Kenneth Torrance received his Bachelor’s (1961), Master’s (1962) and doctoral (1966) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, where he also served as Associate Dean of the College of Engineering.
A Fellow of the American Association of Mechanical Engineers and recipient of the 1994 ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, he has nearly 90 publications in the fields of combustion, heat transfer, experimental and computational methods, and photorealistic image synthesis. Working with Dr. Donald Greenberg at Cornell University, he also guided and encouraged the early development of radiosity for image synthesis.
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