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James D. Foley is a professor in the College of Computing and College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He is perhaps best known as the co-author of several widely-used textbooks in the field of computer graphics, of which over 300,000 copies are in print. Foley presently does research with instructional technologies and distance education.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Notable awards 3 Selected publications 4 References 5 External link

Born in Pennsylvania, Foley attended Lehigh University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1964. Foley was also initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa Society during this time. He received his Ph.D. in computer information and control engineering from the University of Michigan in 1969.

After completing his graduate studies, Foley was first employed by the University of North Carolina. In 1977, he accepted a faculty position at George Washington University, where he became chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Foley joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1991, a position he has held since.

Shortly after moving to Georgia Tech, Foley founded the GVU Center, which in 1996 was ranked first by U.S. News & World Report for graduate computer science work in graphics and user interaction. That same year, he was appointed director of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Foley also served as editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 1991 to 1995.

In 1997, Foley was recognized by ACM SIGGRAPH with the prestigious Steven A. Coons Award. The receipt of this biannual award places Foley among the company of computer graphics pioneers such as Edwin Catmull and Ivan Sutherland.

Foley accepted the position of chairman and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center America (MEITCA) in 1998, directing corporate R&D at four labs in North America. He returned to Georgia as Executive Director and then CEO of Yamacraw, Georgia's economic development initiative in the design of broadband systems, devices and chips.

Foley became chairman of the Computing Research Association in 2001.

• IEEE Fellow, 1986. "For contributions to computer graphics."
• ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, 1997.
• ACM Fellow, 1999. "Through his books, courses, papers, organizational, and professional contributions, Foley has had a broad and lasting impact on the computer graphics field and on ACM."
• SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007. "It is difficult to think of anyone who had a larger role in the institutionalization of HCI as a discipline."

• Foley, James; A. van Dam, S. Feiner, J. Hughes (1995). C Edition, Interactive Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. Reading, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley, 1174. 

• Foley, James; A. van Dam, S. Feiner, J. Hughes, and R. Phillips (1993). Introduction to Computer Graphics. Reading, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley, 559. 

• Foley, James; A. van Dam, S. Feiner, J. Hughes (1990). Interactive Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. Reading, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley, 1174. 

• Foley, James; A. van Dam (1982). Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics. Reading, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley (IBM Systems Programming Series), 664. 

• Owen, G. Scott; Barbara Mones-Hattal, Turner Whitted (1997). "Steven A. Coons award for outstanding creative contributions to computer graphics: James Foley". Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques: 10, New York, NY, USA: ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.. DOI:10.1145/258734.258741. 

• James Foley's home page