Dave Rogers is the author of the computer graphics classics,
Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics and
Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics.
He is also the coeditor of four
books from the state-of-the-art series on computer graphics and
has published two fluid dynamics texts. His books have been
translated into six foreign languages.
Dr. Rogers was founder and former director of the Computer
Aided Design/Interactive Graphics Group at the United States
Naval Academy. His early classic work in the use of B-splines
and NURBS for dynamic real-time manipulation of ship hull
surfaces spawned both commercial and research programs.
He was series editor for the Springer-Verlag series "Monographs
in Visualization" and a founding editor of the journal Computers
& Education. He is also a member of the editorial boards of The
Visual Computer and Computer Aided Design. He frequently serves
on the organizing and technical program committees of computer
graphics conferences worldwide, including SIGGRAPH and Computer
Graphics International.
He was the Fujitsu Scholar at the Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology and a Visiting Professor at the University of New
South Wales in Australia. He was an Honorary Research Fellow at
University College London in England, where he studied naval
architecture with the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors.
Professor Rogers was one of the original faculty who established the
Aerospace Engineering Department at the United States Naval
Academy in 1964. He is currently Director of Aeronautics,
Director of the Fluid Dynamics Laboratories and Head of the
Supercomputer and Scientific Visualization Group at the Academy.
Dave Rogers has both an experimental and a theoretical research
background. His research interests include highly
interactive graphics, computer aided design and manufacturing,
numerical control, computer aided education, hypersonic viscous
flow, boundary layer theory, computational fluid mechanics and
flight dynamics.
He is an active pilot and holds an ATP (Air Transport Pilot)
rating. He is chief pilot for the flight test course at the
Academy. He has flown extensively throughout the Canadian High
Arctic, including to Alert at 82 degrees 30 minutes north;
across the North Atlantic to Iceland, Norway, Scotland and
Ireland; to Alaska; and throughout the Bahamas and the
Caribbean. His photographs of the Canadian High Arctic have
been featured in a photography art show. Dave frequently flies
his Bonanza to SIGGRAPH. He holds a Ph.D. in aeronautical
engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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