John F. Hughes

John F. Hughes
Alma mater U.C. Berkeley,
Princeton
Known for Computer graphics textbooks
Scientific career
Fields Computer graphics
Institutions Brown University
Thesis Invariants of Regular Homotopy and Bordism of Low Dimensional Immersions (1982)
Doctoral advisor Robion Kirby
Doctoral students Olga Karpenko
Tomer Moscovich
Morgan McGuire
Steven Dollins
Lee Markosian
Cindy Grimm
Philip Hubbard

John F. Hughes is a Professor of Computer Science at Brown University.[1]

Contributions

Hughes' research is in computer graphics, particularly those aspects of graphics involving substantial mathematics. He is perhaps best known as the co-author of many widely used textbooks in the field of computer graphics.[2]

Hughes is an avid sailor, and for years maintained the FAQ for the Usenet rec.boats group.[3]

Selected publications

  • Foley, James; A. van Dam; S. Feiner; J. Hughes (1995). C Edition, Interactive Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. Reading, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley. p. 1174.
  • Foley, James; A. van Dam; S. Feiner; J. Hughes; R. Phillips (1993). Introduction to Computer Graphics. Reading, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley. p. 559.
  • Foley, James; A. van Dam; S. Feiner; J. Hughes (1990). Interactive Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. Reading, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley. p. 1174.

References

  1. ↑ "Hughes and Laidlaw Promoted to Professor; Greenwald and Lysyanskaya Promoted to Associate Professor". Brown University. 2008. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
  2. ↑ "John Hughes". cs.brown.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  3. ↑ http://cs.brown.edu/~jfh/boats/FAQ/node1.html


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