Name Brian Barsky | Role Computer scientist | |
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Alma mater Cornell University
University of Utah Thesis The Beta-spline: a local representation based on shape parameters and fundamental geometric measures (1981) Books Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling Using Beta-splines Education Cornell University, McGill University, University of Utah | ||
Brian A. Barsky is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, working in computer graphics and geometric modeling as well as in optometry and vision science. He is a Professor of Computer Science and Vision Science and an Affiliate Professor of Optometry. He is also a member of the Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, an inter-campus program, between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco.
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Education
Barsky holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, an M.S. in computer graphics and computer science from Cornell University in Ithaca, and a D.C.S. in engineering and a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from McGill University in Montreal.
Awards
Barsky won an IBM Faculty Development Award and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award.
Books
He is a co-author or author of several books: An Introduction to Splines for Use in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, Making Them Move: Mechanics, Control, and Animation of Articulated Figures, and Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling Using Beta-splines. See List of books in computational geometry.
Contact lenses
Barsky developed a novel contact lens design to help restore vision to people with cornea problems.