Maxine D. Brown is an American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

and retired director of the

Electronic Visualization Laboratory The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Engineering’s computer science department. EVL specializes in collaborative visualization, virtual reali ...

(EVL) at the

University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the Universi ...

(UIC). Along with Tom DeFanti and Bruce McCormick, she co-edited the 1987 NSF report, ''Visualization in Scientific Computing'', which defined the field of

scientific visualization Scientific visualization ( also spelled scientific visualisation) is an interdisciplinary branch of science concerned with the visualization of scientific phenomena. Michael Friendly (2008)"Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, st ...

Biography

Brown holds a B.A. in

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

from

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist ministe ...

and an M.S. in

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

. Prior to coming to the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1986, Brown was a professional communications consultant specializing in technical communications for the

computer graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, digital art, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. ...

industry. Until October 1983, she was Director of Documentation at Digital Productions. She was formerly with ISSCO Graphics, a supplier of

data representation Data and information visualization (data viz/vis or info viz/vis) is the practice of designing and creating graphic or visual representations of a large amount of complex quantitative and qualitative data and information with the help of stat ...

graphics software, working in the documentation, development, and marketing areas. She has also worked at

Hewlett-Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company. It was founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939 in a one-car garage in Palo Alto, California ...

, in both their research and development groups and in marketing. In the 1987 she became associate director of the

(EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, responsible for the funding, documentation, and promotion of its research activities. She works closely with EVL's collaborators at the

National Center for Supercomputing Applications The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and provides high-performance computing resources to researchers in the United States. NCSA is currently led by Professor Bill ...

(NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory to coordinate research activities.Maxine D. Brown
. 1998 ACM SIGGRAPH Awards Outstanding Service Award. Retrieved 8 July 2008. Brown is also a steering committee member of the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA), a founding member of GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, a global group that manages international switched wavelength networks for research and education, and co-chair (with Larry Smarr) of the GLIF Research & Applications (RAP) working group. Brown has also served co-chair of international grid (iGrid) demonstrations, notably iGrid 1998 at SC.98 in Orlando, Florida; iGrid 2000 at INET in Yokohama, Japan; iGrid 2002 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and, iGrid 2005 in San Diego, California. Maxine Brown was a recipient of the 1990 UIC Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) award, and the recipient of the 1998

SIGGRAPH SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques) is an annual conference centered around computer graphics organized by ACM, starting in 1974 in Boulder, CO. The main conference has always been held in North ...

Outstanding Service Award. and the 2001 UIC Merit Award.

Publications

Brown has authored numerous articles and papers. A selection:Maxine D. Brown
ACM author profile page. * 1987. "Visualization in Scientific Computing". Edited with Bruce H. McCormick and

Thomas A. DeFanti Thomas Albert "Tom" DeFanti (born September 18, 1948) is an American computer graphics researcher and pioneer. His work has ranged from early computer animation, to scientific visualization, virtual reality, and grid computing. He is a distinguish ...

. ACM Press. * 1988. "Imcomp -- An Image Compression and Conversion Algorithm for the Efficient Transmission, Storage, and Display of Color Images". With M. Krogh. In: ''NCSA Data Link''. Vol. 2, No. 3, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, June 1988, pp. 11– 24 * 1989. "Scientific Animation Workstations: Creating an Environment for Remote Research, Education, and Communication". With T.A. DeFanti. In: ''Academic Computing'', Feb. 1989, pp. 10–12, 55–57. * 1995. "Virtual Environments and Distributed Computing at SC'95: GII Testbed and HPC Challenge Applications on the I-WAY." Edited with H. Korab. Published by ACM/IEEE Supercomputing '95, December 1995. * 1996. "Virtual Reality Over High Speed Networks." With T. DeFanti and R.Stevens. In: ''IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications'', Vol 16.4, July 1996, pp. 42–43. * 1997
"The ImmersaDesk and Infinity Wall Projection-Based Virtual Reality Displays"
With Marek Czernuszenko, Dave Pape, Daniel Sandin, Tom DeFanti and Gregory L. Dawe. In: ''Computer Graphics''. May 1997. * 1997
"Global Tele-Immersion: Better Than Being There"
With Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti, Andrew E. Johnson, and Daniel J. Sandin. * 1999. "Visualization. Expanding Scientific and Engineering Research Opportunities". With Thomas A. DeFanti and Bruce H. McCormick. In: ''Readings in information Visualization: Using Vision to Think'', pages 39–56. * 2002
"Teleimmersion and Visualization with the OptIPuter"
With others. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2002), The University of Tokyo, Japan, December 3–6, 2002.

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