COMPUTER GRAPHICS AROUND THE WORLD Computer Graphics in Germany Dietmar Saupe Institut f r Informatik Universit t Leipzig ed a research institute for visualization and simulation headed by Prof. Hans Hagen. Other public institutions with computer graphics research activities include the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), housing research groups with a focus on virtual environments and digital media productions. The German Research Foundation (DFG) recognizes the need and potential of research in computer graphics. For example, besides financing numerous individual grants, the DFG sponsors a special interdisciplinary graduate study program on 3D image analysis and synthesis at the University of Erlangen-Nuremburg. This includes funding for a yearly international workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), which this year takes place in Stuttgart. Besides the strong research development in graphics there are also interesting new avenues in graphics education. Typically, the courses on computer graphics are integrated in the standard computer science diploma curriculum. However, at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg a new curriculum called Computational Visualistics was installed in 1996. Students in this course of studies are prepared for all occupations where a systematic creation, processing and handling of digital images is crucial. Besides technical
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