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Turner Whitted is an area manager at Microsoft Research. In his
current role he oversees MSR’s Human Centered Computing effort. Previously he
managed MSR’s hardware devices and graphics groups.
He was a member of the computer science faculty at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
from 1983 until 2001. He co-founded Numerical Design Limited in 1983, served
as president and technical director until 1996, and continued to serve as a
director until NDL’s merger with Emergent Game Technologies in 2005. Prior to
that he was a member of the technical staff in Bell Labs' computer systems
research laboratory.
He earned BSE and MS degrees from Duke University
and a PhD from North Carolina
State University,
all in electrical engineering. In the past he has served on the editorial
boards of IEEE Computer Graphics and
Applications and ACM Transactions
on Graphics, and was papers chair for SIGGRAPH 97. He is an ACM Fellow
and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
He is a private pilot and a racing sailor.
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