Presenter


Tom DeFanti
Biography
Tom DeFanti, PhD, is a research scientist at the University of California, San Diego, and a distinguished professor emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was co-Chair of SIGGRAPH'79, elected SIGGRAPH Secretary from 1977-1981 and then Chair from 1981-1985. He received the 1988 ACM Outstanding Contribution Award, became an ACM Fellow in 1994, and received the SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award in 2000. He is also a Fellow of the International Engineering Consortium. He shares recognition along with UIC Professor Emeritus Dan Sandin for conceiving the CAVE in 1991, first shown at Maxine Brown’s SIGGRAPH’92.
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Retrospective
Arts & Design
Gaming & Interactive
New Technologies
Production & Animation
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Adaptability
Diversity Equity & Inclusion
History
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