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Editor in Chief's Message: Following the Ebb and Flow at

John C. Dill , Simon Fraser University

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	John C. Dill, "Editor in Chief's Message: Following the Ebb and Flow at CG&A," IEEE COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND APPLICATIONS, Vol. 24, 02, p. C2, MARCH/APRIL, 2004.

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	@article{ 10.1109/MCG.2004.10027, author = {John C. Dill}, title = {Editor in Chief's Message: Following the Ebb and Flow at CG&A}, journal ={IEEE COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND APPLICATIONS}, volume = {24}, number = {02} issn = {0272-1716}, year = {2004}, pages = {C2}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2004.10027}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - MGZN JO - IEEE COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND APPLICATIONS TI - Editor in Chief's Message: Following the Ebb and Flow at CG&A IS - 02 SN - 0272-1716 SP - EP - A1 - John C. Dill PY - 2004 VL - 24 JA - IEEE COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND APPLICATIONS ER -

As many of you might know, two of our senior board members, Carl Machover and Bert Herzog recently retired from the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications editorial board. As a result, we've been engaged in a search for new board members.

So it's with great pleasure that I introduce our two newest additions: Dieter Fellner and Jock Mackinlay.

Dieter Fellner—who is a professor of computer science at the Technical University of Braunschweig and founding director of their Computer Graphics Institute—brings a wealth of experience in user interface design, software engineering, computer graphics, and digital libraries. His past experience includes serving on editorial boards for other computer graphics magazines. He will also help strengthen our connections to the European graphics communities. We all look forward to his contributions to IEEE CG&A, and we welcome him to our editorial board.

Jock Mackinlay is a member of the research staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and is part of their User Interface Research Group. Jock brings a great depth of experience and expertise as well as an extensive record of publications in visualization, especially in information visualization. I am delighted to welcome Jock to our board, and we are all looking forward to his contributions to our magazine.

In addition to these new members, other changes have taken place on the board. Markus Gross will be stepping down as associate editor in chief to devote more energy to his new position as papers chair of Siggraph 05. Markus did an absolutely first-class job in organizing and managing our regular (nontheme) article submissions, and we are very appreciative of his efforts and of the results of his efforts; we wish him much success with Siggraph 05!

To take over this position, we welcome Holly Rushmeier as the new associate editor in chief in charge of this important task. Holly has been a board member since March of 2002 and brings superb experience, including acting as a former board member and EIC of the ACM Transactions on Graphics.

I also would like to acknowledge the marvelous job my predecessor, Jim Thomas, did during his watch as EIC. Jim is a long-time friend and colleague. He is not only a great researcher, but also a superb manager and leader, and a great pleasure to work with. Under Jim's gentle ministrations, we've improved all areas of the magazine, from research papers to theme issues on current and forthcoming topics to departments. He also introduced our first peer-reviewed CD-ROM in 2002. We've continued that trend with our latest CD this January, with articles based on the Siggraph 03 Emerging Technologies exhibit. We'd certainly like your feedback regarding our latest CD as well as hearing your thoughts and ideas about other special topics for future CD-ROM issues. We'd very much appreciate your taking a few minutes to fill in the feedback form at http://www.computer.org/cga/CD-feedback.htm.

It is a continuing privilege to serve as a member of the editorial board and as your EIC.

New Editorial Board Members

Dieter W. Fellner is director of the newly founded Institute of Computer Graphics and a professor of computer science at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. His main research and project areas include telematic services, user interfaces, computer graphics, and graphics in digital libraries. Fellner received an MSc and PhD from the University of Technology in Graz, Austria in 1981 and 1984. He has held academic positions at universities in Graz, Austria; Denver, Colorado; St. John's, Canada; and Bonn, Germany. He is a member of the IEEE, ACM, and Eurographics, German Computer Society.

Jock Mackinlay joined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1986, where he collaborated with the User Interface Research Group to develop many novel applications of computer graphics for information access, coining the term "Information Visualization." He received a PhD in computer science from Stanford University, where he pioneered the automatic design of graphical presentations of relational information. Much of the fruits of this research can be seen in his recently published book, Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (Morgan Kauffman, 1999, written and edited with Stuart K. Card and Ben Shneiderman).

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