Elaine Cohen is an American researcher in geometric modeling and computer graphics, known for her pioneering research on B-splines. She is a professor in the school of computing at the University of Utah.
Education and career
Cohen graduated from Vassar College in 1968, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She went to Syracuse University for graduate study in mathematics, earning a master's degree in 1970 and completing her doctorate in 1974. Her dissertation, On the Degree of Approximation of a Function by Partial Sums of its Fourier Series, concerned approximation theory, and was supervised by Daniel Waterman.
At the University of Utah, Cohen became the first woman to gain tenure at the School of Engineering.
Contributions
With Richard F. Riesenfeld and Gershon Elber, Cohen is the author of the book Geometric Modeling with Splines: An Introduction (AK Peters, 2001).
She has also contributed to the development of the Utah teapot, improving it from a two-dimensional surface with no thickness to a bona-fide three-dimensional object.
Recognition
In 2005, the YWCA of Salt Lake City gave Cohen their Outstanding Achievement Award. In 2009, Cohen and Riesenfeld were awarded the Pierre Bézier Award of the Solid Modeling Association for their work on B-splines in computer aided geometric design.
References
- ^ Richard Riesenfeld and Elaine Cohen, the 2009 Pierre Bézier Award Recipients, Solid Modeling Association, retrieved 2018-10-27
- "Elaine Cohen", Faculty profile, University of Utah, retrieved 2018-10-27
- Education, University of Utah, retrieved 2018-10-27
- Elaine Cohen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "YWCA to honor 6 Utah women: Award recipients are hailed for excellence, beating challenges", Deseret News, September 11, 2005, archived from the original on October 28, 2018
- Reviews of Geometric Modeling with Splines:
- Walker, Marshall (2002), Mathematical Reviews, MR 1845683
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Bletzinger, K.-U. (December 2002), Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 24 (6): 464–465, doi:10.1007/s00158-002-0260-9, S2CID 120598791
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Bultheel, A. (2003), "Review", Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society, 10 (1): 159
- Peters, J (October 2003), "Splines with pictures and proofs", Computer-Aided Design, 35 (12): 1144, doi:10.1016/s0010-4485(03)00096-4
- Walker, Marshall (2002), Mathematical Reviews, MR 1845683
- Piper, Matthew (December 5, 2016), "Whatever happened to ... the ubiquitous digital 'Utah teapot'?", Salt Lake Tribune
- Living people
- American computer scientists
- American women computer scientists
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American women mathematicians
- Vassar College alumni
- Syracuse University alumni
- University of Utah faculty
- 20th-century American women mathematicians
- Mathematicians from New York (state)