GLEN N. WILLIAMS

Professor

Email: g-williams@tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-5485 Fax: 979/845-8578
Office: HRBB 338B
http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/gnwsr01

Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1965
M.E. Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1961
B.S. Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1960

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Computer graphics, scientific and engineering applications, computational mathematics

SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT

"Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Research and Development," Naval Undersea Warfare Center, October 1994-December 1998

AWARDS

IEEE/OES Distinguished Service Award, 1996

IEEE Fellow, 1995

Halliburton Professorship in Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 1992-1993

EXPERIENCE

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1986 - present

Interim Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Dwight Look College of Engineering, 2001-2002

Assistant Dean, Dwight Look College of Engineering, 1999-2002

Associate Director, Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), 1999-2002

Full Professor and Interim Head, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 1986

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 1975

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 1969

Computer Science, Systems Engineer, IBM Corp., 1965

Project Engineer, USAF Weapons Laboratory, 1965-1968

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Member, Sigma Xi, IEEE

Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, 1992 - present

Senior Member, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, Association for Computing Machinery

U.S. Liaison, Oceans '98 Conference, Nice, France, 1998

Co-Chairman, Technical Program Committee, Oceans '97 Conference, Halifax, 1997; San Diego, 1995

Chair, IEEE Activities Board, Society Review Committee, 1996-present

Chair, IEEE Activities Board, TAB Society President's Forum, 1994-1995

President, IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, 1990-93

Chair, Multiple Vehicles Session, 7th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, 1991

Chair, Technical Program, AUV Conference, Washington, DC, 1990

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Williams, G.N., Genetti, J. and Gordon, D., "Adaptive Supersampling in Object Opace using Pyramidal Rays," Computer Graphics Forum, January 1998.

Williams, G.N., S. Smith, "A Visualization of Music," SIGGRAPH '97, Electronic Theater Screening Room, Los Angeles, CA. August 1997.

Williams, G.N., J. Genetti, and D. Gordon, "Image Synthesis with Adaptive Cone Tracing," Conjector Graphics Journal, November 1996.

Williams, G.N., D. Barnett, and D. K. Friesen, "A Fully Distributed AUV Control Architecture," (Abs.), Journal of Underwater Acoustics, vol. 42(4), Supplement, S-8, 1992.

Williams, G.N., and T. Asbury, "Multi-Dimensional Convex Polytopes," SIGGRAPH '92, Electronic Theater Screening Room, Chicago, IL, July 1992.