John Hughes Has Been Inducted Into The ACM SIGGRAPH Academy
- Posted by Jesse Polhemus
- on May 22, 2025
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) has recently named four people to the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy, and one of them is Brown CS faculty member John Hughes, recognized for his outstanding contributions and sustained leadership to computer graphics education and research. It’s one of the highest honors in the field of computer graphics, bestowed on individuals whose efforts have shaped the disciplines and/or industry and led research and/or innovation in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
Over the years, John’s research has focused on aspects of graphics involving substantial mathematics. As author or co-author of nineteen SIGGRAPH papers, he's done research in geometric modeling, user interfaces for modeling, non-photorealistic rendering, and animation systems. He's served as an associate editor for ACM Transaction on Graphics and the Journal of Graphics Tools, and has been on the SIGGRAPH program committee multiple times. He co-organized Implicit Surfaces '99, the 2001 Symposium in Interactive 3D Graphics, and the first Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, and was the Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH 2002. He’s the lead co-author of Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, a standard reference work.
John’s latest teaching includes CSCI 0170 Computer Science: An Integrated Introduction and CSCI 1951Y Using an Interactive Proof Assistant to do Mathematics. He recently became the first Brown CS Associate Chair, had his research (“SKETCH: An Interface for Sketching 3D Scenes”) named one of SIGGRAPH’s Seminal Graphics Papers, and was ranked in the top 0.21% of Stack Exchange’s Mathematics users.
Fortunately, it appears that this latest honor has done little to imperil his sense of humor.
“Personally,” John says, “I think the real reason I was inducted is because I started the ‘SIGGRAPH fast-forward’, a manic review of all the technical papers to be presented at the conference, which runs on Sunday night and gets everyone pumped up for the rest of the conference.”
A full list of SIGGRAPH Academy members is available here.
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