Thomas W. Sederberg is the associate dean of the college of physical and mathematical sciences and professor of Computer Science at
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University (BYU, sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-d ...
in
Provo, Utah. His research involves computer graphics and computer aided design. He helped invent
free-form deformation and
T-splines.
Education and career
Thomas W. Sederberg studied civil engineering at
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University (BYU, sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-d ...
for both his Bachelor's (1975) and his Master's (1977) degrees.
Sederberg received his PhD from
Purdue and joined the civil engineering faculty at BYU in 1983.
His PhD thesis discussed how to compute intersecting Bézier curves.
He is an associate editor for
ACM Transactions on Graphics
''ACM Transactions on Graphics'' (TOG) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers the field of computer graphics. It was established in 1982 and is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. TOG publishes two special iss ...
and for Computer Aided Geometric Design.
Sederberg co-founded T-Splines, inc. in 2004, which was acquired by
Autodesk
Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquartere ...
in 2011.
Awards
SIGGRAPH awarded Sederberg with the Computer Graphics Achievement award in 2006.
In 2013 Sederberg received the
Pierre Bézier
Pierre Étienne Bézier (1 September 1910 – 25 November 1999; ) was a French engineer and one of the founders of the fields of solid, geometric and physical modelling as well as in the field of representing curves, especially in computer-a ...
award for his contributions to solid modeling.
Purdue gave Sederberg the Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award in 2014.
Brigham Young University awarded him the Steven V. White University Professorship, the
Technology Transfer
Technology transfer (TT), also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the person or organization that owns or holds it to another person or organization, in an attempt to transform invent ...
Award and the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award.
His publications are highly cited—in 2014 Thomson Reuters named Sederberg as one of the 108 most-cited professors in computer science.
Personal life
Sederberg married Brenda Clark in 1978, and they had eight children. One of which is now CEO of Coreform, a successful software company.
See also
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T-spline
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free-form deformation
References
External links
Sederberg's syllabus for CS 557: Computer aided geometric designSederberg's publications at ScholarsArchiveBYU devotional on faith and joy
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Brigham Young University faculty
Brigham Young University alumni
Purdue University alumni
Living people
Computer graphics researchers
Year of birth missing (living people)