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Andries van Dam

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Dutch-born American professor of computer science at Brown University (born 1938)

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Andries "Andy" van Dam is a Dutch-American professor of computer science and former vice-president for research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Together with Ted Nelson he contributed to the first hypertext system, Hypertext Editing System (HES) in the late 1960s. D. K. Feiner, and John Hughes.

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2008honorary doctor of ETH Zürich
1999IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal
1994ACM Fellow
IEEE Fellow

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Andries "Andy" van Dam is a Dutch-American professor of computer science and former vice-president for research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Together with Ted Nelson he contributed to the first hypertext system, Hypertext Editing System (HES) in the late 1960s. He co-authored Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice along with J.D. Foley, S.K. Feiner, and John Hughes. He also co-founded the precursor of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference.

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