Robert Stephen (Steve) Cunningham (born 1942 – March 27, 2015) was an American

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and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at

California State University Stanislaus California State University, Stanislaus (Stanislaus State, Stan State) is a public university in Turlock, Stanislaus County, California. It is part of the California State University system. It was established in 1957 and is also the only camp ...

Biography

Steve Cunningham received his BA cum laude in Mathematics from

Drury University Drury University, formerly Drury College and originally Springfield College, is a private university in Springfield, Missouri. The university's mission statement describes itself as "church-related". It enrolls about 1,700 undergraduate and grad ...

in 1964. He continued his studies at the

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where he earned his M.A. in Mathematics in 1966 and his Ph.D. in Mathematics three years later. In 1982, he received an M.S. in Computer Science at

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering co ...

.Vita Robert Stephen Cunningham
retrieved 10 July 2008. Cunningham started working at the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...

as Assistant Professor of Mathematics from 1969 to 1974. From 1974 he worked at the Birmingham-Southern College as Assistant Professor of Mathematics for a year, Associate Professor of Mathematics for four years and as Associate Professor of Computer Science from 1979 to 1982. Since 1982 he has worked at the

, since 1986 as Professor of Computer Science until 2001, Gemperle Distinguished Professor for three years and Stanislaus Professor Emeritus since 2005. From 1999 to 2000 Cunningham was also visiting scientist at the

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. He was

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Program Director, EHR/DUE from 2003 to 2005. Research Professor of Computer Science at the

2004-05 and Noyce Visiting Professor of Computer Science at

Grinnell College Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, United States. It was founded in 1846 when a group of New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College. Grinnell has the fifth highest endowment-to-st ...

in 2006. He received several awards and honors. A Fellow of the European Association for Computer Graphics in 1998, the Outstanding Professor for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity, CSU Stanislaus in 2001, the Gemperle Distinguished Professor, CSU Stanislaus in 2001, the ACM

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Outstanding Contribution Award in 2004 and the Noyce Visiting Professor of Computer Science, Grinnell College in 2006.

Work

Cunningham's research interests were in

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, especially computer graphics education, Computer Science Education, and computer visualization in learning mathematics.

Publications

* 1989. ''Programming the User Interface: Principles and Examples''. With Judith R. Brown. Wiley. * 1991. ''Visualization in Teaching and Learning Mathematics''. Edited with Walter Zimmermann. MAA Notes Number 19, Mathematical Association of America. * 1992. ''Computer Graphics Using Object-Oriented Programming''. Edited with N. Craighill, M. Fong and J. Brown. Wiley, * 1992. ''Interactive Learning Through Visualization - The Impact of Computer Graphics in Education''. Edited with Roger Hubbold. Springer-Verlag. * 1996. ''Electronic Publishing on CD-ROM''. With Judson Rosebush. O'Reilly and Associates. * 2007. ''Computer Graphics: Programming in OpenGL for Visual Communication''. Prentice-Hall. * 2009. ''Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice''. With Mike Bailey. AK Peters. 2012. Second edition.

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