David L. DiLaura (Boulder, Colorado) is an American engineer, educator and pioneer in lighting calculation software. DiLaura is a Fellow and Gold Medalist of the

Illuminating Engineering Society The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), is an industry-backed, not-for-profit, learned society that was founded in New York City on January 10, 1906. The IES's stated mission is "to improve the lighted environment by bringing together thos ...

, a Fellow of the

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, a member of

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, and has his LC. He has been topic editor of the 8th and 9th editions of the ''IES Lighting Handbook'' and editor of the 10th edition, he has published 42 technical papers, a translation and analysis of Johann Lambert's seminal Latin work "Photometria", authored "A History of Light and Lighting", and for eight years was Editor-in-Chief of ''LEUKOS'', the journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society. He was inducted into the Architectural Lighting Hall of Fame in 2001, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the

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in 2008.

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