Professor Edward S. Angel
Edward S. Angel is Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Media Arts at the University of New Mexico. Recently, he became Director of the Arts Technology Center in the College of Fine Arts at UNM. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1968. He has held academic positions at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Southern California, and the University of Rochester. Professor Angel came to UNM in 1978. He was Associate Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (1982-85) and Chair of the Computer Science Department (1985-88). He has held visiting positions at the Lund Institute of Technology (Sweden), the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore India (Senior Fulbright Lecturer), University College London and Imperial College (London). He has also held a variety of joint appointments ranging from Biomathematics (USC) to Obstetrics and Gynecology (Rochester) to Electrical and Computer Engineering (UNM).
His present research interests are in computer graphics and scientific visualization. He is supporting graduate students working in volume visualization, virtual reality, and masssively parallel computing. His main teaching interests have been in Computer Graphics. See some student projects. His students have been working with students in a number of other disciplines creating animations using Maya. Professor Angel is the first UNM Presidential Teaching Fellow.
Professor Angel was on sabbatical during 1995-96. During the fall he taught at the Universidad de los Andes in Merida, Venezuela and at the Universidad Tecnologica Equinoccial in Quito, Ecuador. During the spring he visited National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and the Chinese University in Hong Kong. Before leaving for two months of trekking in Nepal and Tibet he finished a graphics textbook. Read more about our adventures writing the book.
The second edition of the book was published in 2000. Although writing the second edition was not as eventful as writing the first, he was able to complete treks in Ladakh and Kazakstan with his advances. His recent book, the OpenGL Primer, was published in July, 2001. The third edit ion of Interactive Computer Graphics was published in July, 2002.Professor Angel is the Principal Investigator of the NSF funded Digital Pueblo Project which is combining Arts and Technology to promote economic development among the communities in New Mexico through collaborative graphics and animation projects. Recently, Professor Angel led a group of UNM faculty who were awarded $3M from the State of New Mexico to build the Art, Research, Technology, and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) at UNM. The ARTS Lab will be a unique interdiscplinary center with educational, research, and economic developement activities that span the range of digital media.