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Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2006
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Thomas Ertl
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Thomas Ertl is the recipient of the Eurographics "Outstanding Technical
Contributions" Award 2006 in recognition of his outstanding work on
visualization, GPU-based techniques in computer graphics and human
computer interfaces.
Thomas Ertl received a masters degree in computer science from the
University of Colorado at Boulder and a PhD in theoretical astrophysics
from the University of Tübingen. After his PhD, he became a professor of
computer graphics and visualization at the University of Erlangen where
he lead the scientific visualization group. Currently, he is a full professor
of computer science at the University of Stuttgart, Germany and
the head of the Visualization and Interactive Systems Institute (VIS) and
the newly founded Visualization Center of the University of Stuttgart (VISUS).
The work of Thomas Ertl has had a profound impact with contributions on
vortex extraction in turbulent flows (in IEEE Visualization 2005), on
point-based visualization for astrophysical datasets (in IEEE CG&A
2004), on GPU-based cell projection (IEEE TVCG 2003), on transparency in
technical illustrations (Eurographics 2002), on pre-integrated volume
rendering (Graphics Hardware 2001), on interactive remote visualization
for medical applications (VisSym 2000), on 3D line integral convolution
(IEEE Visualization 1999), and the pioneering work on the use of graphics
hardware in volume rendering (SIGGRAPH 1998).
Thomas Ertl has shaped the research agenda in volume graphics,
visualization and the efficient use of graphics hardware and texturing.
He has created one of the world top research groups, and he has advised
a significant number of PhD students. Thomas Ertl has been and is strongly
involved in the IEEE Visualization Conferences and in the EG/IEEE
Visualization Symposia (EuroVis) and he will serve as Editor-in-Chief of
the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics from 2007.
Ertl also has numerous ties to industry and he actively pursues research on
innovative visualization applications in science, medicine, and engineering.
Thomas Ertl has significantly contributed to the advancement of the field
of computer graphics through his work, and Eurographics is pleased to
recognize Thomas Ertl with the 2006 Outstanding Technical Contributions Award.
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