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.
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