women
GENERAL
Machover, C., & Branum, A. (1998). Women in computer graphics. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, 32(2), 28-30. (ncsu)
Dorothea Jameson (Harvard, NYU & Penn 1950-99)
A cognitive psychologist who with husband Leo Hurvich, validated and improved color opponent theory.
Krantz, D. H. (1998). Dorothea Jameson: A memoir. Color Research & Application, 23(6), 358-361. (ncsu)
Ruth A Weiss (Bell Labs 1966)
Weiss, R. A. (1966). BE VISION, a package of IBM 7090 FORTRAN programs to draw orthographic views of combinations of plane and quadric surfaces. Journal of the ACM (JACM), 13(2), 194-204. (ncsu)
Anne Freeny (Bell Labs 1967)
Worked on early geospatial viz at Bell Labs
Lillian Shwartz (Bell Labs 1968)
Early computer artist at Bell Labs; one piece was in "Spock's Brain" episode of Star Trek
Ingrid Carlbom (Brown U. 1976)
Pioneering work on the CORE graphics standard and projections. Continued her work at Bell Labs on acoustics.
Carlbom, I., & Paciorek, J. (1978). Planar geometric projections and viewing transformations. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 10(4), 465-502. (ncsu)
Mary Whitton (NC State 1978)
Early graphics work at NC State; co-founder of Ikonas frame buffer company. Continued her work at UNC Chapel Hill.
Usoh, M., Arthur, K., Whitton, M. C., Bastos, R., Steed, A., Slater, M., & Brooks Jr, F. P. (1999, July). Walking> walking-in-place> flying, in virtual environments. In Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (pp. 359-364). ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (ncsu)
Maxine Brown (Illinois Chicago 1979)
A lifetime of dedicated work in SIGGRAPH including developing the floor show and the electronic theater; there at the birth of modern visualization.
McCormick, B. H., Defanti, T. A., & Brown, M. D. (1987). Visualization in scientific computing: Report of the NSF Advisory Panel on Graphics. Image Processing and Workstations.
Judith Brown (U. Iowa 1979)
A lifetime of dedicated work in SIGGRAPH focused on education.
Cunningham, S., Brown, J. R., Burton, R. P., & Ohlson, M. (1988, February). Varieties of computer graphics courses in computer science. In ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 313-313). ACM. (ncsu)
Maureen Stone (U. Illinois 1979)
Specializing in color, interaction and visualization. Now at Tableau Research.
Stone, M. C., Cowan, W. B., & Beatty, J. C. (1988). Color gamut mapping and the printing of digital color images. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 7(4), 249-292. (ncsu)
Sara Bly (UC Davis 1978)
Specializing in sound visualization and cooperative work. Early on, built a frame buffer at LLNL. Later, helped found CHI as it split from SIGGRAPH.
Bly, S. A., Harrison, S. R., & Irwin, S. (1993). Media spaces: bringing people together in a video, audio, and computing environment. Communications of the ACM, 36(1), 28-46. (ncsu)