Dr. Klaus Kansy

born in Lippstadt (Germany)

University of Münster (Germany): Mathematics and Physics

University of Bonn (Germany): Mathematics and Economics

Diploma in Numerical Mathematics granted by the University of Bonn (Germany); title of thesis:
Ein intervallarithmetisches Verfahren zur Bestimmung aller Nullstellen einer Funktion in einem reellen Intervall (An interval arithmetic method for determining all zeros of a function in a real interval)

Doctorate in Numerical Mathematics granted by the University of Bonn (Germany); title of thesis:
Ableitungsverträgliche Verallgemeinerung der Intervallpolynome (Generalisation of interval polynomials with respect to differentiation)

Visiting researcher at INRIA (Rocquencourt, France) for 9 month

Researcher at German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD), Sankt Augustin (Germany)

Researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Sankt Augustin (Germany)

Security officer for information technology

Security officer for medical products for LOCALITE GmbH

Research in error control for numerical algorithms (interval analysis)

Project: Feature extraction from road data

Project: Digitization of thematic maps for planning purposes of the Federal Ministery for Agriculture

Project: Acoustical applications in offices (speech filing), workstation for blind person

Project wibaGraph: Knowledge based methods for graphical design

Project DRIVE: Design of Realistic Interactive Virtual Environments

Project VEP: Visual Enabling in Precision Surgery

Project LOCALITE: Image-based guiding system for interventional MRI; installed at Klinikum Krefeld (LOCALITE was winner of GMD Best Project Award 2000)

Project SUPPORT: Planning and Guidance of Tumor Thermo Therapy under 3D Ultrasound Control

Project: Mathematical modelling for vehicle valuation

Approximation and compression of image sequences taken with different polarisation angles

Member of German standardization committees for Computer Graphics

Member of international standardization committees for Computer Graphics

Head of German standards committees on 3D-graphics, GKS review, architecture of graphics systems, presentation and interchange of multimedia information (PREMO)

Head of Task 2 Graphics and knowledge engineering within the CEC-funded ERCIM Computer Graphics Network

Editor of the GKS (Graphical Kernel System) graphics standard

Co-author of the major reference book on the GKS standard: Günter Enderle, Klaus Kansy, Günther Pfaff (1984,1987): Computer Graphics Programming. Berlin: Springer-Verlag (2 editions; translated into Russian; reprinted in India and China)

Editor of the PREMO graphics standard

Member of Executive Committee of Eurographics

Vice chair of Eurographics

Fellow of the Eurographics Association

Panelist of SIGGRAPH panel Computer Graphics Pioneers Assess Computer Graphics