1991 Steven A. Coons Award Lecture Dr. Andries van Dam Brown University Introduction Thank you very much, Bert, Jim, and SIGGRAPH, for presenting me with this great award, which is beyond a doubt the highlight and biggest thrill of my professional career. I am most grateful to all of you for this great honor and also take immense pleasure in acknowledging my family and friends who have made it possible. First, my family: my wife Debbie, our 3 daughters, my father and my sister. They put up with my workaholism and manias all these years, and I am glad they could be here today. Second, I have been blessed with a renewable resource of great students. I owe a deep debt of gratitude to these present and former students, some seventy of whom are here this year, for having taught me far more than I ever taught them. These students and I have been supported by the generosity of our sponsors, including NSF, ONR, DARPA, IBM, Sun, NCR, HP and DEC. This award means all the more to me because I was lucky to have known Steve Coons, who taught so many of us old-timers about the importance
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