Awards
 

Technical Achievement Awards

The IEEE VGTC Technical Awards program recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the community through their research. Each year, the awards are presented during the opening sessions of the annual Visualization and Virtual Reality conferences.

The VGTC Technical Awards chair for Virtual Reality is Larry Hodges. VGTC members may nominate individuals by contacting him at <lfhodges 'at' uncc.edu>.

The VGTC Technical Awards chair for Visualization is Bill Lorensen. VGTC members may nominate individuals by contacting him at <vgtc-vis-awards 'at' ieee.org>.

The Visualization Career Award

The IEEE VGTC Visualization Career Award was established in 2004. It is given every year to an individual to honor that person’s lifetime contribution to visualization.

Recipients:

2007 Stuart Card
PARC, USA
In recognition of sustained work in Information Visualization and Human-Machine Interaction.		   Award Page (coming)
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2006 Pat Hanrahan
Stanford University, USA
In recognition for sustained achievement in Information and Scientific Visualization		   Award Page
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2005 Arie Kaufman
Stony Brook University, USA
In recognition of his seminal work in the theory and practice of volume visualization. 		  Award Page
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2004 William Lorensen
General Electric Global Research, USA
In recognition of pioneering achievements in object modeling and visualization. 		  Award Page
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The Visualization Technical Achievement Award

The IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award was established in 2004. It is given every year to recognize an individual for a seminal technical achievement in visualization.

Recipients:

2007 Jarke van Wijk
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
In recognition of seminal achievements in Flow Visualization.		   Award Page (coming)
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2006 Thomas Ertl
University of Stuttgart, Germany
In recognition of his research in volume graphics, flow visualization, and the efficient use of graphics hardware for interactive visualization.		   Award Page
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2005 Charles Hansen
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
In recognition of seminal work on tools for understanding large-scale scientific data sets. 		  Award Page
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2004 Amitabh Varshney
University of Maryland, College Park, USA
In recognition of seminal achievements in scientific visualization of molecular surfaces. 		  Award Page
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The Virtual Reality Career Award

The IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Career Award was established in 2005. It is given every year to an individual to honor that person’s lifetime contribution to virtual and augmented reality.

Recipients:

2008 R. Bowen Loftin
Texas A&M at Galveston, USA
In recognition of his contributions to the VR training system for the Hubble Space Telescope repair, his role in porting VR technology into the geophysical exploration community, and his service to the VR Community. 		Award Page
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2007 Susumu Tachi
University of Tokyo, Japan
In recognition of his seminal contributions to telexistence, virtual reality, haptics, and augmented reality. 		Award Page
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2006 Larry F. Hodges
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
In recognition of seminal contributions to clinical virtual reality. 		Award Page
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2005 Mel Slater
University College London, UK
In recognition his lifetime contribution to virtual and augmented reality. 		Award Page
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The Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award

The IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award was established in 2005. It is given every year to recognize an individual for a seminal technical achievement in virtual and augmented reality.

Recipients:

2008 Bernd Fröhlich
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
In recognition of his contributions to interactive devices and displays for VR. 		Award Page
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2007 Carolina Cruz-Neira
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Thomas A. DeFanti
University of California, San Diego, USA
Daniel J. Sandin
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
In recognition of the development of the CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment. 		Award Page
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2006 Kay Stanney
University of Central Florida, USA
In recognition for seminal technical achievement in virtual and augmented reality. 		Award Page
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2005 Mark T. Bolas
Fakespace, Inc., USA
In recognition for seminal technical achievement in virtual and augmented reality. 		Award Page
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