John F. "Spike" Hughes is a
Professor
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of
Computer Science
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at
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
.
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
textbook
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s in the field of
computer graphics
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.
Hughes is an avid sailor, and for years maintained the FAQ for the Usenet rec.boats group.
Selected publications
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References
External links
John Hughes home page
Living people
Computer graphics professionals
Computer graphics researchers
Human–computer interaction researchers
Computer vision researchers
Brown University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
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