Tracie Sweeney National Academy of Engineering honors Brown computer scientist Computer science Professor Andries van Dam, a pioneer in computer graphics, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Election is one of the highest professional distinctions given to an engineer.
Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions given to an engineer. Membership honors those who have made important contributions to engineering theory and practice and those who have demonstrated unusual accomplishment in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. A member of Brown's faculty since 1965, van Dam was one of the computer science department's founders and its first chairman. He is also director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Graphics and Visualization, a research consortium including Brown University, California Institute of Technology, Cornell University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Utah. His research has concerned computer graphics, text processing and hypermedia systems, and workstations.