The GVU Center at Georgia Tech (formerly the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center) is an

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research center located near

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, and affiliated with the

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. It was founded by

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, the Center's first director, on October 15, 1992. According to '' U.S. News & World Report'', it is one of the best such facilities in the world. The GVU Center's current director is W. Keith Edwards, Georgia Tech alum and Professor in the School of Interactive Computing. The GVU Center focuses on human-computer interaction,

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History

In 1988, two Georgia Tech faculty members, Larry Hodges and Bill Ribarsky, created the Georgia Tech Computer Graphics Interest Group. The popularity of this group led Hodges and Ribarsky to expand it into a Scientific Visualization Lab. This lab later merged with the Biomedical Visualization Lab, Animation Lab, and Video Lab to form the Georgia Tech Imaging Consortium. Professor James Foley renamed this entity the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability (GVU) Center in early 1991. The GVU Center moved into a 3,000 square foot research space in 1992, provided by the

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. In 2006, the GVU Center relocated to expanded facilities in the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB).

Directors

Five people have served as directors of the GVU Center since its founding: *

(1991-1996) * Jarek Rossignac (1996-2001) *

Aaron Bobick Aaron F Bobick is dean of the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Bobick’s research is in the field of artificial intelligence and computer vision. He has chaired and published papers in top-tier academic conf ...

(2001-2005) *

Elizabeth D. Mynatt Elizabeth D. "Beth" Mynatt (born July 12, 1966) is the Dean of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She is former executive director of the Institute for People and Technology, director of the GVU Center at Georgia ...

(2005-2011) * W. Keith Edwards (2011–present)

References

External links

GVU Center @ Georgia Tech

GVU Center 2012 Annual Report
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History

Directors

See also

References

External links