{"337521":{"#nid":"337521","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rossignac Earns 2014 B\u00e9zier Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/people\/jarek-rossignac\u0022\u003EJarek Rossignac\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor with the School of Interactive Computing, has earned the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.solidmodeling.org\/bezier_award.html\u0022\u003E2014 B\u00e9zier Award\u003C\/a\u003E from the Solid Modeling Association.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.solidmodeling.org\/\u0022\u003ESolid Modeling Association\u003C\/a\u003E established the award in 2007 in honor of the late Pierre B\u00e9zier, a founder in the field. This award is the highest distinction in solid modeling and computer-aided design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EIn its citation, the B\u00e9zier award committee honored Rossignac \u201cto recognize the significant impact of his work in CSG, Non-manifold B-reps, Mesh Simplification, and Compression, as well as his role in founding the Solid Modeling series of symposia.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u201cI am proud to be listed amongst the pioneers who have created the foundations and the initial Solid Modeling systems, which have transformed manufacturing by automating design, analysis, and process planning,\u201d Rossignac said. \u201cThis field makes it possible for scientists and engineers to fully exploit the amazing capabilities of 3D printing and of high resolution biomedical scanning.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003ERossignac remembers fondly a fortuitous first meeting with B\u00e9zier after the elder scientist approached him after Rossignac finished a Gunter Enderle award-winning talk on Minkowski morphs between two polyhedra.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u201cHe pointed out that I could use his B\u00e9zier curve construction idea to define a morph between more than two shapes\u2014a great suggestion that, of course, I could not ignore,\u201d Rossignac said. \u201cSo I did it and published later under the title \u2018AGRELs and BIPs: Metamorphosis as a B\u00e9zier Curve in the Space of Polyhedra\u2019 in his honor.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~jarek\/Rossignac_bio.pdf\u0022\u003ERossignac\u003C\/a\u003E, who leads the Modeling, Animation, Graphic, Interaction \u0026amp; Compression (MAGIC) Lab, joined Georgia Tech in 1996 as the second director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gvu.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGVU Center\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EBefore that he was senior manager and visualization strategist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. \u0026nbsp;He earned a Ph.D. in E.E. from the University of Rochester, a Dipl\u00f4me d\u0027Ing\u00e9nieur from the Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure en \u00c9lectricit\u00e9 et M\u00e9canique (ENSEM), and a Ma\u00eetrise in M.E. from the University of Nancy, France.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EHe has authored 24\u0026nbsp;patents and more than 154 peer-reviewed articles. He created the ACM Solid Modeling Symposia series; chaired 25 conferences and program committees; delivered about 30 distinguished or invited lectures and keynotes; and served on the editorial boards of seven professional journals and on 82 technical program committees. He is a fellow of the Eurographics Association.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jarek Rossignac, a professor with the School of Interactive Computing, has earned the 2014 B\u00e9zier Award from the Solid Modeling Association"}],"uid":"27897","created_gmt":"2014-10-27 16:20:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:23","author":"Phillip Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"50492":{"id":"50492","type":"image","title":"Jarek Rossignac","body":null,"created":"1449175400","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:20","changed":"1475894460","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:00","alt":"Jarek Rossignac","file":{"fid":"128720","name":"jarek-rossignac.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jarek-rossignac_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jarek-rossignac_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":11307,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jarek-rossignac_1.jpg?itok=pl5Hh3NU"}}},"media_ids":["50492"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"37561","name":"Jarek Rossignac"},{"id":"114601","name":"Press Release"},{"id":"171374","name":"solid modeling"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhillip Taylor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ptaylor@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eptaylor@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ptaylor@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}