Dianne Hansford

Dianne Carol Hansford
Website	http://www.farinhansford.com/dianne/

Dianne Carol Hansford (born 1964)[1] is an American computer scientist known for her research on Coons patches in computer graphics and for her textbooks on computer-aided geometric design, linear algebra, and the mathematics behind scientific visualization. She is a lecturer at Arizona State University in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, and the cofounder of a startup based on her research, 3D Compression Technologies.[2]

Education and career

Hansford is a 1986 graduate of the University of Utah. She went to Arizona State University for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1988 and completing her Ph.D. in 1991.[2] Her dissertation, Boundary Curves with Quadric Precision for a Tangent, Continuous Scattered Data Interpolant, was supervised by Robert E. Barnhill.[3]

She became a Fulbright Scholar in German, doing postdoctoral research at the Technical University Darmstadt, and then worked in the computing industry for several years, including co-founding 3D Compression Technologies in 2000, before returning to Arizona State as a research scientist in 2004. She became an associate research professor in 2006 and a lecturer in computing in 2016.[4]

Selected publications

Hansford's books, coauthored with Arizona State University professor Gerald Farin, include:

• The Geometry Toolbox for Graphics and Modeling (A K Peters, 1998);[5] revised as Practical Linear Algebra: A Geometry Toolbox (A K Peters, 2005; 4th ed., CRC Press, 2021)[6]
• The Essentials of CAGD (CRC Press, 2000)[7]
• Mathematical Principles for Scientific Computing and Visualization (A K Peters, 2008)[8]

She is also the author of a highly cited paper on Coons patches:

• Farin, Gerald; Hansford, Dianne (1999), "Discrete Coons patches", Computer Aided Geometric Design, 16 (7): 691–700, doi:10.1016/S0167-8396(99)00031-X, MR 1718057

References

1. Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2022-03-13
2. "Dianne Hansford", Faculty & Staff, Arizona State University, 13 March 2022
3. Dianne Hansford at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2022-03-13
5. Reviews of The Geometry Toolbox for Graphics and Modeling:
   • Sabella, P. (September 1998), "Review", ACM Computing Reviews
   • Wallner, Johannes, zbMATH, Zbl 0899.15003
6. Reviews of Practical Linear Algebra:
   • Chavez, Edgar R. (January 2006), "Review", ACM Computing Reviews
   • Dixon, John D., zbMATH, Zbl 1064.15001; re-review of 3rd ed., Zbl 1278.15002
   • Johnson, Warren (January 2006), "Review", MAA Reviews
   • Maher, Philip (March 2010), The Mathematical Gazette, 94 (529): 185–187, doi:10.1017/S0025557200007488, JSTOR 27821921, S2CID 233362269
   • Swaminathan, S. (February 2006), "Brief book reviews" (PDF), CMS Notes, 38 (1): 7
   • Watkins, David S. (June 2006), "Featured review: Textbooks on linear algebra", SIAM Review, 48 (2): 393–396, doi:10.1137/SIREAD000048000002000393000001, JSTOR 20453805
7. Reviews of The Essentials of CAGD:
   • Giblin, Peter (March 2002), The Mathematical Gazette, 86 (505): 183–184, doi:10.2307/3621635, JSTOR 3621635, S2CID 69244940
   • Petcu, Dana, zbMATH, Zbl 0961.65012
   • Qin, Hong (April 2003), "Learning CAGD is easier and more fun than ever", Computer-Aided Design, 35 (5): 507–508, doi:10.1016/s0010-4485(02)00071-4
   • "Bulletin bibliographique: Informatique", L'Enseignement mathématique, 47 (1–2): 31–33, January–June 2001
8. Review of Mathematical Principles for Scientific Computing and Visualization:
   • Duben, Anthony J. (July 2009), "Review", ACM Computing Reviews

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