Thomas Sederberg Explained

Thomas W. Sederberg is the associate dean of the college of physical and mathematical sciences and professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University 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 for both his Bachelor's (1975) and his Master's (1977) degrees.[1] Sederberg received his PhD from Purdue and joined the civil engineering faculty at BYU in 1983.[2] His PhD thesis discussed how to compute intersecting Bézier curves.

He is an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Graphics[3] and for Computer Aided Geometric Design.[4]

Sederberg co-founded T-Splines, inc. in 2004, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011.[5]

Awards

SIGGRAPH awarded Sederberg with the Computer Graphics Achievement award in 2006.[6] In 2013 Sederberg received the Pierre Bézier award for his contributions to solid modeling.[7]

Purdue gave Sederberg the Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award in 2014. Brigham Young University awarded him the Steven V. White University Professorship, the Technology Transfer Award and the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award.[8] 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 them is Matthew Sederberg, CSO of Coreform, a successful software company. [9]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Thomas W. Sederberg . Purdue University Mechanical Engineering . Purdue University . 2016-02-24 . 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160306084112/https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/OME/2014/sederberg.html . 2016-03-06 . live .
  2. Web site: Dr. Sederberg earns distinction of being "Highly Cited" . BYU Computer Science . BYU . 2016-02-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171109043349/https://cs.byu.edu/article/dr-sederberg-earns-distinction-being-highly-cited . 2017-11-09 . live .
  3. Web site: ACM Graphics Editorial Board . ACM Digital Library . ACM . 2016-02-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303084421/http://tog.acm.org/editorial.cfm . 2016-03-03 . live .
  4. Web site: Computer Aided Geometric Design Editorial Board . Elsevier . 2016-02-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305105908/http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-aided-geometric-design/editorial-board/ . 2016-03-05 . live .
  5. Web site: Hadfield . Joe . BYU prof's design technology acquired by software giant Autodesk . BYU News . BYU . 2016-02-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160310172811/https://news.byu.edu/news/byu-prof%E2%80%99s-design-technology-acquired-software-giant-autodesk . 2016-03-10 . live .
  6. Web site: Awards . ACMSIGGRAPH . ACMSIGGRAPH . 2016-02-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160302034759/http://www.siggraph.org/participate/awards . 2016-03-02 . live .
  7. Web site: Thomas W. Sederberg, the 2013 Pierre Bézier Award Recipient . Solid Modeling Association . Solid Modeling Association . 2016-02-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304133702/http://solidmodeling.org/bezier-award/thomas-w-sederberg/ . 2016-03-04 . live .
  8. News: Holligshead . Todd . BYU professors receive prestigious awards from Purdue University . 2016-02-24 . BYU News . December 2, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160310172844/https://news.byu.edu/news/byu-professors-receive-prestigious-awards-purdue-university . 2016-03-10 . live .
  9. Web site: Brenda Clark Sederberg . Deseret News . 2016-02-24 . September 5, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303205905/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/deseretnews/obituary.aspx?pid=159657454 . 2016-03-03 . live .

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