John F. Hughes

John F. "Spike" Hughes is a Professor of Computer Science at Brown University.[1]

Not to be confused with John Hughes (computer scientist).
For other people with the same name, see John Hughes (disambiguation).
John F. Hughes
Alma materU.C. Berkeley,
Princeton
Known forComputer graphics textbooks
Scientific career
FieldsComputer graphics
InstitutionsBrown University
ThesisInvariants of Regular Homotopy and Bordism of Low Dimensional Immersions (1982)
Doctoral advisorRobion Kirby
Doctoral studentsCindy Grimm

Contributions

Hughes' research is in computer graphics, particularly those aspects of graphics involving substantial mathematics. He is perhaps best known as the co-author of many widely used textbooks in the field of computer graphics.[2]

Hughes is an avid sailor, and for years maintained the FAQ for the Usenet rec.boats group.[3]

Selected publications
  • Foley, James; A. van Dam; S. Feiner; J. Hughes (1995). C Edition, Interactive Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. Reading, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley. p. 1174.
  • Foley, James; A. van Dam; S. Feiner; J. Hughes; R. Phillips (1993). Introduction to Computer Graphics. Reading, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley. p. 559.
  • Foley, James; A. van Dam; S. Feiner; J. Hughes (1990). Interactive Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. Reading, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley. p. 1174.

References
  1. "Hughes and Laidlaw Promoted to Professor; Greenwald and Lysyanskaya Promoted to Associate Professor". Brown University. 2008. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
  2. "John Hughes". cs.brown.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-11-20. Retrieved 2014-06-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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