BYU alumni at National Instruments "give back a little" to their alma mater. Read More

Dr. Tom Sederberg, a CS professor and an associate dean in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, received the Computer Graphics Achievement Award, the highest annual honor given in the computer graphics field, during the 33rd Annual ACM SIGGRAPH Conference in Boston, held from July 30 to August 3, 2006.

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BYU professor William Barrett and graduate student Chris Armstrong have created a tool called “Live Surface”. This new software extracts information from data collected from 3-D volumes – CT scans, MRIs or 3-D ultrasounds. With a click and drag of the mouse a user identifies the object he wishes to extract. Next, he identifies those portions of the data that surround the object. Immediately, the desired object is extracted from the data.

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