Name: James David Foley

Born: July 20, 1942, in Pennsylvania, USA

  • Professor and co-author of several widely-used textbooks in the field of computer graphics, of which over 400,000 copies are in print and translated in ten languages.

Significant publications

  • Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (1995).
  • Introduction to Computer Graphics. Reading (1993).
  • Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (1990).
  • Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics (1982).

Honors and awards

  • IEEE Fellow (1986).
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award (1997).
  • ACM Fellow (1999).
  • ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award (2007).
  • National Academy of Engineering Member (2008).