James D. Foley
| James David Foley | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 20, 1942 Pennsylvania, USA |
| Residence | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields |
Computer graphics, Human-computer interaction |
| Institutions |
Georgia Tech, GVU Center |
| Alma mater |
University of Michigan, Lehigh University |
| Known for | Computer graphics |
| Notable awards | IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, NAE Member, ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award, ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award |
James David Foley (born July 20, 1942) is a Professor and the Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications in the School of Interactive Computing, and former Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) from 2008-2010. He is perhaps best known as the co-author of several widely used textbooks in the field of computer graphics, of which over 400,000 copies are in print and translated in ten languages. Foley presently conducts research with instructional technologies and distance education.
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.
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