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Carlo Enrico Vandoni
EUROGRAPHICS, Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland
Carlo Vandoni was born in Milano, Italy, in 1937, but has been living in Switzerland as from 1965. He joined Olivetti in 1958, where he participated in the design and programming of the first computers designed and built in Italy and was responsible for the implementation of basic software. In 1965 he joined CERN, and has been involved in computer graphics since 1968. He was responsible in the 70's for the design and implementation of SIGMA, a system entirely designed at CERN, specifically to cope with the computing needs of mathematicians and theoretical physicists. Since 1970 he has been continuously involved in activities related to computer graphics and man machine communication.
He served (1994-2001) as Director of the CERN Schools of Computing.
In February 2002, Carlo retired from CERN.
His research activity produced over 50 papers, mainly on computer graphics and man-machine interaction.
One of the Founding Members of EUROGRAPHICS at the Bologna Conference in 1979, he was the Programme Chairman of the EG'80 and EG'85 Conferences, Programme Co-Chairman of EG'90, and Co-Chair of Eurographics 2000. He served as Chairman of the Association for the period 1987-1988.
A EUROGRAPHICS Fellow, he is presently Secretary of the Association, and Chairman of the Operations Board.
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