James D. Foley

James D. Foley
dean (en) 2008 - 2010 ← Richard DeMillo (en) - Zvi Galil (en) →
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Pennsylvania, 20 ga Yuli, 1942 (83 shekaru)
ƙasa	Tarayyar Amurka
Mazauni	Atlanta
Karatu
Makaranta	University of Michigan (en) Lehigh University (en)
Thesis director	Keki B. Irani (mul)
Dalibin daktanci	Elizabeth Mynatt (en) Barbara Ericson (mul)
Harsuna	Turanci
Sana'a
Sana'a	injiniya, computer scientist (en) , university teacher (en) da information scientist (en)
Wurin aiki	Atlanta
Employers	Georgia Institute of Technology (mul) George Washington University (mul) Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (en)
Kyaututtuka	gani CHI Academy  (2001) ACM Fellow  (1999) IEEE Fellow
Mamba	The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Incorporated (mul) National Academy of Engineering (en) ACM (mul) Phi Beta Kappa Society (en)

James David Foley (an haife shi a ranar 20 ga Yuli, 1942) masanin kimiyyar kwamfuta ne na Amurka kuma mai binciken zane-zane na kwamfuta. Shi Farfesa ne Emeritus kuma ya rike kujerar Stephen Fleming a cikin Sadarwa a Makarantar Kwamfuta ta Interactive a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Georgia (Georgia Tech). Ya kasance Dean na wucin gadi na Kwalejin Kwamfuta ta Georgia Tech daga 2008-2010. Wataƙila an fi saninsa da co- marubucin litattafai da yawa da aka yi amfani da su a fagen zane-zane na kwamfuta, wanda sama da 400,000 kofe suna bugawa kuma an fassara su cikin harsuna goma. Foley kwanan nan ya gudanar da bincike a cikin Fasahar koyarwa da ilimin nesa. 

Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi

An haifi Foley ne a Pennsylvania. Ya halarci Jami'ar Lehigh da ke Baitalami, Pennsylvania, inda ya kammala karatu tare da digiri na farko a aikin injiniya a shekarar 1964. An fara Foley a cikin ƙungiyar Phi Beta Kappa da Tau Beta Pi yayin da yake Lehigh. Ya sami Ph.D. a cikin kwamfuta, bayanai, da injiniyan sarrafawa daga Jami'ar Michigan a shekarar 1969.

Ayyuka

Bayan kammala karatunsa na digiri, Jami'ar North Carolina ce ta fara aiki da Foley. A shekara ta 1977, ya karbi matsayi a Jami'ar George Washington, inda ya zama shugaban Sashen Injiniyan Lantarki da Kimiyya ta Kwamfuta. Foley ya shiga makarantar Georgia Tech a shekarar 1991.

Ba da daɗewa ba bayan ya koma Georgia Tech, Foley ya kafa Cibiyar GVU, wanda a cikin 1996 US News & World Report ya fara aiki a kimiyyar kwamfuta a cikin zane-zane da hulɗar mai amfani. A wannan shekarar, an nada shi darektan Laboratories na Binciken Lantarki na Mitsubishi (MERL) a Cambridge, Massachusetts. Foley ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin babban edita na ACM Transactions on Graphics daga 1991 zuwa 1995.[1]

A shekara ta 1997, ACM SIGGRAPH ta amince da Foley tare da babbar lambar yabo ta Steven A. Coons . Samun wannan lambar yabo ta shekara-shekara ya sanya Foley cikin kamfanin masu zane-zane na kwamfuta kamar Andy van Dam, Jim Blinn, Edwin Catmull da Ivan Sutherland .