Charles E. Hughes

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e-mail:ceh@cs.ucf.edu
web:http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~ceh/
phone:407.882.1344

appointments

Director and Chief Scientist of Media Convergence Laboratory
Associate Director, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Professor, School Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Professor, Digital Media Department
Contributing Faculty, Institute for Simulation & Training
Affiliated Faculty, Text & Technology Doctoral Program

education

Penn State University, Ph.D., Computer Science, 1970
Penn State University, M.S., Computer Science, 1968
Northeastern University, B.A., Mathematics, 1966

information

Charles E. Hughes is Professor and Associate Director in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He is also Director and Chief Scientist for the Media Convergence Laboratory, and Professor of Digital Media. He received the BA degree in Mathematics from Northeastern University in 1966, and the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Penn State University in 1968 and 1970, respectively. Charlie is a 45-year veteran of the computer industry, having started at RCA’s aerospace division in 1962. After receiving his PhD, he was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 1970 to 1972, and served on the faculties of Computer Science at Penn State University and the University of Tennessee prior to joining UCF in 1980. His research interests are in mixed reality, computer graphics and models of computation.

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