Steven K. Feiner is an American

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, serving as Professor for computer science at

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in the field of computer graphics. He is well-known for his research in augmented reality (AR), and co-author of '' Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice''. He directs the Columbia University Computer Graphics and User Interface Lab.

Biography

Feiner earned a

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from

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

in 1973, and received his

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from

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in 1985.

Recognition

Feiner was elected as an

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in 2018 for "contributions to human-computer interaction, virtual and augmented reality, and 3D user interfaces".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Feiner, Steven K. Living people Columbia University faculty Computer graphics researchers Human–computer interaction researchers Virtual reality pioneers 2018 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Year of birth missing (living people) Brown University alumni