Autor: Norman I. Badler

Norman I. Badler is the Rachleff Family Professor (Emeritus) of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. in Creative Studies Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1970 and his M.Sc. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1971 and 1975, respectively. Prof. Badler has been a leading scholar in computer graphics and animation, co-authoring more than 275 technical papers with over 23, 400 citations and a Google Scholar h-index of 77. He was elected the national Vice-Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH) in 1978 and 1980 and served as the Senior Co-Editor-in-Chief for the journal Graphical Models for 20 years. He has served on the Editorial Boards of several other journals, including MIT Press’ Presence.