Andries "Andy" van Dam (born 8 December 1938, Groningen) is a Dutch-born American pioneering professor of computer science and former Vice-President for Research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Together with Ted Nelson he contributed to the first hypertext system, HES in the late 1960s. He co-authored Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice along with J.D. Foley, S.K. Feiner, and John Hughes. He also co-founded the precursor o...
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Andries "Andy" van Dam (born 8 December 1938, Groningen) is a Dutch-born American pioneering professor of computer science and former Vice-President for Research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Together with Ted Nelson he contributed to the first hypertext system, HES in the late 1960s. He co-authored Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice along with J.D. Foley, S.K. Feiner, and John Hughes. He also co-founded the precursor of today's ACM SIGGRAPH conference.
He currently teaches several courses in computer graphics at Brown University, while serving on several relevant technical boards and committees.
Andy has mentored a large number of scholars and practitioners in hypertext and computer graphics, including Randy Pausch. Among them, he is known for his demanding but fair mentorship, and for the long-standing mutual commitment and loyalty he maintains with his students.
As far back as the late 1960s, Andy employed the services of undergraduate students in his...
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