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Lew HitchnerProfessor Emeritus, Ph.D. University of Utah
BioPrior to joining the Computer Science faculty at Cal Poly Prof. Hitchner was active in R&D for Virtual Reality software systems in Silicon Valley. From 1988 through 1993 he was a scientist at the Research Inst. for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA (1989-1993). There he was the technical developer of the Virtual Planetary Exploration project (VPE), an immersive VR system for virtual exploration of the planet Mars. After leaving NASA Ames, Dr. Hitchner held various positions in the VR industry including V.P. of R&D for Xtensory, Inc., consultant to Sense8, Corp., and Member of the Technical Staff at Sterling Software, Inc. Dr. Hitchner completed his doctoral studies at the Univ. of Utah. Prior to that he was employed by ICI America as an Operations Research analyst (1968-1973). From 1983 through 1988 he was a member of the faculty of Computer & Information Sciences at Univ. of Calif., Santa Cruz. During the 2003-2004 academic year Prof. Hitchner was on sabbatical and held the position of Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand, where he taught the introductory computer science course (CompSci 101) and advanced courses in computer graphics (CompSci 372 and 707).From June, 2007 I have been retired. I no longer work at Cal Poly, and I have moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Specialty: Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Video Game Graphics, First Year Computer Science Learning