Prof. Ing. Vaclav Skala, CSc. Head of the Center of Computer Graphics and Visualization Department of Computer Science and Engineering Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia Univerzitni 22, Box 314 CZ 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic GPS 49°43'29.42"N, 13°21'3.34"E Direct Tel. (+420) 37-763-2473; Direct Fax: (420) 37-763-2457 skala@kiv.zcu.cz              URL: http://herakles.zcu.cz/~skala  Secretary: Tel.: (+420) 37-763-2401, 2461, 2462, 2463 Fax: (+420) 37-763-2402

Motto:
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
Albert Einstein

Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Professor for Research Medal, University of West Bohemia, 2001
• Memorial Certificate for Research, University of West Bohemia, 2006

Education

• 1996 - Prof., Computer Science, Ministry of Education, Prague
• 1989 - Doc., Computer Science, Faculty of Applied Sciences (habilitation), Univ. of West Bohemia, Plzen
• 1988 - Doc., Computer Science, Ministry of Education, Prague
• 1981 - CSc. (PhD.) - Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague
• 1975 - Ing. (MSc. Eng.) - Technical Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Plzen

Industrial Experience

• 1994 - 2002 member of DIPRO Prague Plc. Advisory Board
• 1993 - 94 director of DIPRO Prague Plc. Company
• 1989 - 93 director of SOFTINVENT, private company
• 1975 - 89 research & development for Skoda Plc., Plzen,
• 1987 - 89 research & development for Teplotechna Plc., Teplice

Research topics

Responsible for courses

Other activities

Chair or Co-Chair

• WSCG - International Conferences in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision
  (recently Winter School of Computer Graphics) - organized since 1992

RECENTLY

• Object Oriented Technologies - International Conferences - organized since 2003 (recently as .NET Technologies)

Member of Editorial Boards

• The Visual Computer, Springer Verlag, Germany, ISSN 0178-2789 (Print) 1432-2315 (Online)
• Computers & Graphics, Elsevier (Pergamon Press), ISSN 0097-8493
• The International Journal of Virtual Reality, IPI Press, USA, http://www.ijvr.org/index.html
• Journal of WSCG, Czech Republic, ISSN 1213 - 6972

Recently

• Computer Graphics Forum, Blackwell Ltd., U.K., ISSN 0167 - 7055
• Machine Graphics and Vision, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, ISSN 1230-0535
• Journal of .NET Technologies, Czech Republic, ISSN 1201 - 2108
• High Performance Computer Graphics, Multimedia and Visualisation, U.K.
• Journal of Object Oriented Technologies, Czech Republic, ISSN 1213-6272

Member of

• EUROGRAPHICS Association, Eurographics Executive Committee
• Computer Graphics Society
  
  IPC member of several International Conferences, Workshops and Symposia Boards every year

Maps and university photos

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Last update: 11-01-2009 by: Vaclav Skala