Harold Garner

Harold Ray Garner ("Skip Garner") is a biophysicist with distinguished research careers both in plasma physics, in bioengineering and bioinformatics. Dr. Garner was born in St. Louis, Mo. on 5 February 1954. He received his BS in Nuclear Engineering (minor in computer science) at the University of Missouri, Rolla in 1976 and a Ph.D. in plasma/high temperature matter physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1982.[1][2] He also holds an honorary professional engineering degree also from the University of Missouri, Rolla.

From 1994 to 2009, Skip held the P. O’B. Montgomery, M.D., Distinguished Chair, and was a Professor of Biochemistry and Internal Medicine, a member of the McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development (Human Genetics Center).[3] In December, 2009, Dr. Garner moved to Virginia Tech and became the Executive Director of the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and a Professor of Biological Science, Computer Science and Medicine. He left that position in March 2012 to lead VBI's Medical Informatics Systems division.[4]

In 2005, Popular Science had an article featuring Garner's holographic video-projection system.[5] It was touted as being the first video-projection system not requiring 3-D glasses featuring a projection surface requiring volume like a column of mist. It is not to be confused with Autostereoscopy.

Notes and references

  1. ↑ University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries - MadCat Catalog
  2. ↑ http://ed.fnal.gov/institute/garner.html
  3. ↑ The Sixth Annual Emerging Information Technology Conference (PDF), 10–11 August 2006
  4. ↑ http://www.genomeweb.com/informatics/people-news-heng-li-harold-garner-dennis-dean-and-others
  5. ↑ http://www.popsci.com/digital-micromirror-device/article/2005-05/holographic-television

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