December 3, 1998

Computer Scientist Receives $117,000 Grant from Hewlett Packard

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dr. Christopher Healey, assistant professor of computer science, has received an equipment grant from Hewlett Packard valued at $117,145.

The equipment, 25 Kayak PC Graphics Workstations, will be installed in the Multimedia Laboratory located in the Engineering Graduate Research Center on NC State University's Centennial Campus. Based on 450 megahertz PCs with 9 gigabyte hard drives and accelerated OpenGL hardware, the workstations are designed to support undergraduate and graduate courses in graphics, computer-human interaction and multimedia.

"This grant is very important to our department," says Dr. Alan Tharp, professor and head of the Department of Computer Science. "The Multimedia Laboratory needed state-of-the-art equipment and would have had to purchase similar equipment if this proposal had not been funded."

Healey, who initiated the proposal while at the University of California at Berkeley (UC-Berkeley), joined the NC State faculty in August 1998. He received his doctorate in computer graphics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in 1996. Prior to joining the NC State faculty, Healey conducted post doctoral research at UC-Berkeley.