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Neil Anthony Dodgson is
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of
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at the
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. He was previously (until 2016)
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of Graphics and Imaging in the
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at the
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in England, where he worked in the ''Rainbow Group'' on computer graphics and interaction.


Education

Dodgson graduated with a
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degree in Computer Science and Physics from
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in 1988 and subsequently worked there as a Junior Lecturer in Computer Science for one year. He was awarded a
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Prince of Wales Scholarship to study at the
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, where he worked on image resampling supervised by Neil Wiseman and graduating with a PhD in 1992.


Research

Dodgson worked for many years on stereoscopic 3D displays, conducting research principally into
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methods. He has contributed to several surveys of the field and has been on the committee of the annual
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conference since 2000, co-chairing the conference four times. With Malcolm Sabin, Dodgson has worked on
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s since 2000. Dodgson's team produced the NURBS-compatible subdivision method in 2009. Dodgson has supervised almost twenty research students for PhDs.


Personal life

Dodgson also takes an interest in abstract art.


See also

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dodgson, Neil British computer scientists Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Cambridge Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholars 1966 births Living people