Dave Kasik retired as Boeing's Senior Technical Fellow in visualization and interactive techniques. His work with CAD and geometry visualization have been part of Boeing’s production systems since the mid-1980’s. He pioneered the use of visual analytics to help extract more information from complex non-geometric data.

Dave earned an MS in Computer Science from University of Colorado in 1972 and a Bachelor’s in Quantitative Studies from Johns Hopkins in 1970. He’s an ACM Fellow. ACM SIGGRAPH involvement includes papers, panels, courses, the Pioneers, exhibits, and history. Dave has attended all North American SIGGRAPH conferences since 1974.