{"73735":{"#nid":"73735","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Jim Foley Elected to the National Academy of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor James D. Foley of the School of Interactive Computing has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions given to an engineer and honors those who have made outstanding contributions to \u0022engineering research, practice, or education,\u0022 according to the organization\u0027s website.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Foley has been given the 2008 Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award, the highest honor Georgia Tech bestows on faculty. Recipients of this award, which comes with a $20,000 prize, are selected by the Faculty Honors Committee for their outstanding commitment to teaching, research and service.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EConsidered an international leader at the forefront of computing science, Foley was one of the computer graphics pioneers who helped establish Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as a discipline. He is the first author of what many consider the definitive text in computer graphics, Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics, which has reached 400,000 copies in ten translations.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFoley arrived at CoC as Professor of Computer Science in 1991 and founded the GVU Center. Four years later U.S. News and World Report ranked the Center number one for graduate computer science work in graphics and user interaction.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EActive in industry, Foley became Director of MERL (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory) in 1996 and then CEO and Chairman of Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center America in 1998. He returned to Georgia in late 1999 to head up the state\u0027s Yamacraw economic development initiative in design of broadband systems, devices and chips.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFor four years (2001-2005), Foley chaired the Computing Research Association (CRA), which represents over 200 research universities, corporate research labs, and professional societies.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Professor James D. Foley of the School of Interactive Computing has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering and has just been named the recipient of Tech\u0027s highest honor for faculty, the Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Computing professor also recipient of Tech\u0027s highest honor for f"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-04-10 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"101","name":"Award"},{"id":"3471","name":"preservation"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}