James D. Foley

James David Foley (an haife shi a ranar 20 ga Yuli, 1942) masanin kimiyyar kwamfuta ne na Amurka kuma mai binciken zane-zane na kwamfuta. Shi Farfesa ne Emeritus kuma ya rike kujerar Stephen Fleming a cikin Sadarwa a Makarantar Kwamfuta ta Interactive a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Georgia (Georgia Tech). Ya kasance Dean na wucin gadi na Kwalejin Kwamfuta ta Georgia Tech daga 2008-2010.  Wataƙila an fi saninsa da co- marubucin litattafai da yawa da aka yi amfani da su a fagen zane-zane na kwamfuta, wanda sama da 400,000 kofe suna bugawa kuma an fassara su cikin harsuna goma. Foley kwanan nan ya gudanar da bincike a cikin Fasahar koyarwa da ilimin nesa. 

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haifi Foley ne a Pennsylvania. Ya halarci Jami'ar Lehigh da ke Baitalami, Pennsylvania, inda ya kammala karatu tare da digiri na farko a aikin injiniya a shekarar 1964. An fara Foley a cikin ƙungiyar Phi Beta Kappa da Tau Beta Pi yayin da yake Lehigh. Ya sami Ph.D. a cikin kwamfuta, bayanai, da injiniyan sarrafawa daga Jami'ar Michigan a shekarar 1969. 

 Ayyuka 
Bayan kammala karatunsa na digiri, Jami'ar North Carolina ce ta fara aiki da Foley. A shekara ta 1977, ya karbi matsayi a Jami'ar George Washington, inda ya zama shugaban Sashen Injiniyan Lantarki da Kimiyya ta Kwamfuta. Foley ya shiga makarantar Georgia Tech a shekarar 1991.

Ba da daɗewa ba bayan ya koma Georgia Tech, Foley ya kafa Cibiyar GVU, wanda a cikin 1996 US News & World Report ya fara aiki a kimiyyar kwamfuta a cikin zane-zane da hulɗar mai amfani. A wannan shekarar, an nada shi darektan Laboratories na Binciken Lantarki na Mitsubishi (MERL) a Cambridge, Massachusetts. Foley ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin babban edita na ACM Transactions on Graphics daga 1991 zuwa 1995.[1]

A shekara ta 1997, ACM SIGGRAPH ta amince da Foley tare da babbar lambar yabo ta Steven A. Coons . Samun wannan lambar yabo ta shekara-shekara ya sanya Foley cikin kamfanin masu zane-zane na kwamfuta kamar Andy van Dam, Jim Blinn, Edwin Catmull da Ivan Sutherland . 

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