Oliver Bimber

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Oliver Bimber

Oliver Bimber (* 1973 in Bad Marienberg ) is a German computer scientist and university professor. He is professor for computer graphics at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz and heads the institute for computer graphics.

curriculum vitae

At the age of 36, Oliver Bimber was appointed a full university professor (2009) and appointed head of the Institute for Computer Graphics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz . From 2003 to 2010 he was Junior Professor for Augmented Reality in the Media System Science Faculty of the Bauhaus University Weimar . He received a Ph.D. (2002) in engineering from TU Darmstadt, Germany , and in 2007 he completed his habilitation in computer science at the Technical University of Munich . From 2001 to 2002 Bimber worked as a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics in Providence, Rhode Island / USA, and from 1998 to 2001 he was a scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Rostock, Germany. His previous affiliations include the IBM TJ Watson Research Center (New York, USA), the Dundalk Institute of Technology (Dundalk, Ireland) and the Giessen University of Applied Sciences (Giessen, Germany).

Bimber is co-author of the books "Displays: Fundamentals and Applications" (2011) with Rolf R. Hainich and "Spatial Augmented Reality" (2005) with Ramesh Raskar (MIT). From 2005 to 2015 he served on the editorial board of IEEE Computer Magazine. VIOSO GmbH was founded in his group in 2005. He and his students have received several awards for their research and inventions and have held scientific competitions such as the ACM Siggraph Student Research Competition (1st place in 2006 and 2008, 2nd place in 2009 and 2011) and the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Final ( 2006), which was presented together with the Turing Award.

Bimber's research interests include visual computing and optics in the context of next-generation display and imaging technologies.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JKU | CG. In: www.jku.at. Retrieved June 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Fraunhofer IGD |. In: www.igd.fraunhofer.de. Retrieved June 14, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Fraunhofer IGD in Rostock | Fraunhofer IGD. (No longer available online.) In: www.igd.fraunhofer.de. Archived from the original on May 6, 2016 ; accessed on June 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.igd.fraunhofer.de
  4. ^ IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. In: www.research.ibm.com. May 6, 2016, accessed June 14, 2016 (en-ZZ).
  5. ^ Dundalk Institute of Technology. In: Dundalk Institute of Technology. Retrieved June 14, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Displays Book. In: www.displaysbook.info. Retrieved June 14, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Spatial Augmented Reality. In: 140.78.90.140. Retrieved June 14, 2016 .
  8. ^ Computer Magazine Homepage • IEEE Computer Society. In: www.computer.org. Retrieved June 14, 2016 .

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SURNAME Bimber, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist and university professor, professor for computer graphics at the JKU Linz
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Marienberg