Jim Foley is Professor and Fleming Chair Emeritus in the Georgia Tech College of Computing, where in 1992 he founded the GVU Center. He co-authored computer graphics texts with ~400,000 copies in print, is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, and is a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, and IEEE. He received ACM/SIGGRAPH's and ACM/SIGCHI’s Lifetime Achievement Awards. 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.