Alain Fournier, a life in pictures

• Born on 5th of November, 1943 in Lyon, childhood in Bourg-en-Bresse, France
• France 1943-1967
  • B.Sc. Chemistry, I.N.S.A., France, 1965.
• Montreal 1967-1975
  • M.Sc. in Chemistry at the University of Montreal, 1971.
  • Instructor in Chemistry, CEGEP Ahuntsic, Montreal, 1967-1975.
• Wedding with Beverly Fournier, August 17, 1968
• Dallas 1975-1980
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, 1980.
    Supervisor: Zvi Meir Kedem
  • Fellow Ph.D. students include
    • Donald Fussell, Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
    • Bruce Naylor, Founder and CEO/CTO, Spatial Labs Inc.
    • Sam Uselton, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
• Toronto 1980-1985
  • Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, 1980-1985.
  • Graduate students include
    • John Amanatides, Eugene Fiume, Delfin Montuno, Avi Naiman, Galina Diker-Pildush, David Grindal, Colin Hui, Tom Mulligan, Tom Nadas, Tim Piper, Peter Schoeler
  • DGP lab space
  • Trip to China
    Left to right: Unknown, Alain, Adrienne, Brian Barsky, Ron Goldman, John Amanatides, Ned Greene, Ralph Hill, Tour guide
    
• Two Years in California, 1985-1986
  • Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, 1985-1986
  • Visiting Associate Professor, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1987
• Wedding with Adrienne Drobnies
• Birth of Ariel Fournier
• Return to Toronto 1987-1989
  • Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, 1985-1989.
  • Eugene L. Fiume joins the faculty, 1987.
  • Graduate students with Alain include
    • John Amanatides, John Buchanan, Elsa Campusano, Chuan Chee, Tom Mulligan, Avi Naiman, Pierre Poulin, Maria Raso, Andrew Woo.
  • Graduate students with Eugene include
    • George Drettakis, Caroline Houle, Marc Ouellette, Michiel van de Panne.
  • Graduate students with Ron include
    • John Buchanan, Alison Lee, Ilona Posner, Leonard Slipp, Ian Small.
  • Some of the DGP lab members in 1989.
    Back row: Pavel Rozalski, Blaine Price, Carson Schultz (sp?), John Buchanan, Alison Lee, Avi Naiman.
    Middle row: Marie-Claire Forgue, Eugene Fiume, Alain Fournier, Leonard Slipp.
    Front row: Caroline Houle, Chuan Chee, Mikio Shinya.
    
  • Program committees: SIGGRAPH 88, 89; Graphics Interface 86, 87, 89
• Vancouver 1989-2000
  • In 1989, Team Canada composed of Alain Fournier, Kelly Booth, Eugene Fiume, and Brian Wyvill, wins the first SIGGRAPH Bowl competition.
    
  • Full Professor at the University of British Columbia, 1991-...
  • John Buchanan and Pierre Poulin transfer from their Ph.D. program at the University of Toronto.
  • The first lab space
    • The first task was to clean-up the space, pulling on any dangling cables from the walls, and to adapt the following painting
      to the
      Vancouver colours.
  • Peter Cahoon joins as a postdoctoral fellow
  • Kellogg S. Booth joins the faculty
  • David Forsey joins the faculty
  • MAGIC lab space
    • More painting
  • Graduate students with Alain include
    • John Buchanan, Bill Gates, Atjeng Gunawan, Gang Huo, Russ Krywolt, Raza Khan, Paul Lalonde, Bob Lewis, Lili Liu, Michael Penn, Pierre Poulin, Vishwa Ranjan, Chris Romanzin, David van Blankenstein, Marcelo Walter.
  • Moving to the CICSR building
    • Imager dark
    • Imager light
  • Graduate students with Alain include
    • John Buchanan, ChangChing Chiu, Joel DeYoung, Chris Ellefson, Paul Fearing, Bill Gates, Atjeng Gunawan, Lun Ke, Paul Lalonde, Cedric Lee, Bob Lewis, Ning Li, David Martindale, Pierre Poulin, Vishwa Ranjan, Allan Rempel, Lisa Streit, Roger Tam, Joanne Thiel, Marcelo Walter.
  • Sabbatical
    • Visiting Professor, iMAGIS in Grenoble, June-Dec. 1995
    • Visiting Professor, NTT Japan, Feb.-March 1996
  • Moving to the Forestry building
  • Graduate students with Alain include
    • David Martindale, Lisa Streit, Roger Tam.
  • Wolfgang Heidrich joins the faculty
  • Conference co-chair: Graphics Interface 92, 98
  • Program committees: Graphics Interface 90, 95, 99
• Alain Fournier died on 14th of August, 2000, around 2:30 PST, at his home in Vancouver.
• Dedicace
  • Painting by Maria Klawe
    
  • Eugene Fiume in ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • Eugene Fiume on dedicating the SIGGRAPH 2001 Proceedings to Alain
    

This is at a very early stage, so please excuse me for making it accessible too soon. If you find anything to add to these pages, please send any material to Pierre Poulin at poulin@iro.umontreal.ca