Technical Achievement Awards
The IEEE VGTC Technical Awards program recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the community through their research.
The VGTC Technical Awards chair for Virtual Reality is Arie Kaufman. VGTC members may nominate individuals by contacting him at vgtc-vr-awards@vgtc.org.
The VGTC Technical Awards chair for Visualization is Bill Lorensen. VGTC members may nominate individuals by contacting him at vgtc-vis-awards@vgtc.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.
| 2011 | Frits Post | Delft University of Technology | ||||
| In recognition of sustained seminal contributions to the field especially in flow visualization, the international impact he made promoting visualization as a scientific field, and establishing early educational programs in visualization. | ||||||
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| 2010 | Chris Johnson | University of Utah, USA | ||||
| In recognition of technical achievements and leadership in Scientific Visualization. | ||||||
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| 2009 | Hans Hagen | University of Kaiserslautern, Germany | ||||
| In recognition of broad technical achievements in graphics and visualization, mentoring of young researchers and unselfish service to the field. | ||||||
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| 2008 | Larry Rosenblum | Naval Research Laboratory (Currently on detail to the U.S. National Science Foundation) | ||||
| In recognition of early technical contributions and unselfish work to nurture and sustain the field of visualization. | ||||||
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| 2007 | Stuart Card | PARC, USA | ||||
| In recognition of sustained work in Information Visualization and Human-Machine Interaction. | ||||||
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| 2006 | Pat Hanrahan | Stanford University, USA | ||||
| In recognition for sustained achievement in Information and Scientific Visualization. | ||||||
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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. | ||||||
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| 2004 | William Lorensen | General Electric Global Research, USA | ||||
| In recognition of pioneering achievements in object modeling and visualization. | ||||||
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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.
| 2011 | Daniel Keim | Universität Konstanz, Germany | ||||
| In recognition of his seminal technical work in high-dimensional data analysis and visualization of large data bases. His work has stimulated research in the new field of Visual Analytics. | ||||||
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| 2010 | Hanspeter Pfister | Harvard University, USA | ||||
| In recognition of his seminal technical achievements in real-time volume rendering. | ||||||
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| 2009 | Jock Mackinlay | Tableau Software, USA | ||||
| In recognition of seminal technical work on automatic presentation tools and new visual metaphors for information visualization. | ||||||
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| 2008 | David Laidlaw | Brown University, Rhode Island, USA | ||||
| In recognition of outstanding technical work in the area of multi-valued data visualization. | ||||||
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| 2007 | Jarke van Wijk | Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands | ||||
| In recognition of seminal achievements in Flow Visualization. | ||||||
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| 2006 | Thomas Ertl | Universität Stuttgart, Germany | ||||
| In recognition of his research in volume graphics, flow visualization, and the efficient use of graphics hardware for interactive visualization. | ||||||
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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. | ||||||
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| 2004 | Amitabh Varshney | University of Maryland, College Park, USA | ||||
| In recognition of seminal achievements in scientific visualization of molecular surfaces. | ||||||
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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.
| 2010 | Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | ||
| In recognition of his lifetime contributions to virtual reality research and practice. | ||||
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| 2009 | Jaron Lanier | Microsoft Corporation and UC Berkeley | ||
| In recognition for his lifetime contributions to the technical and business development of virtual reality. | ||||
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| 2008 | Bowen Loftin | Vice President and CEO, 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. | ||||
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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. | ||||
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| 2006 | Larry F. Hodges | University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA | ||
| In recognition of seminal contributions to clinical virtual reality. | ||||
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| 2005 | Mel Slater | University College London, UK | ||
| In recognition of his lifetime contribution to virtual and augmented reality. | ||||
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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.
| 2010 | Ming C. Lin | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | ||
| In recognition of her seminal contributions in the area of interactive physics-based interaction and simulation for virtual environments. | ||||
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| 2009 | Hirokazu Kato | Nara Institute of Science and Technology | ||
| In recognition of the development of the ARToolkit Library. | ||||
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| 2008 | Bernd Fröhlich | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany | ||
| In recognition of his contributions to interactive devices and displays for VR. | ||||
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| 2007 | Carolina Cruz-Neira | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | ||
| Thomas A. DeFanti | University of California, San Diego | |||
| Daniel J. Sandin | University of Illinois at Chicago | |||
| In recognition of the development of the CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment. | ||||
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| 2006 | Kay Stanney | University of Central Florida, USA | ||
| In recognition for seminal technical achievement in virtual and augmented reality. | ||||
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| 2005 | Mark T. Bolas | Fakespace, Inc., USA | ||
| In recognition for seminal technical achievement in virtual and augmented reality. | ||||
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