Bill Lorensen is a Graphics Engineer in the Electronic Systems Laboratory at GE's Corporate Research and Development Center in Schenectady, NY. He has over 30 years of experience in computer graphics and software engineering. Bill is currently working on algorithms for 3D medical graphics and scientific visualization. He is a co-developer of the marching cubes and dividing cubes surface extraction algorithms, two popular isosurface extraction algorithms. Bill is one of the chief architects of LYMB, an object-oriented software developement environment written in C. His other interests include computer animation, color graphics systems for data presentation, and object-oriented software tools. Bill is the author or co-author of over 60 technical articles on topics ranging from finite element pre/postprocessing, 3D medical imaging, computer animation and object-oriented design. He is a co-author of Object-Oriented Modeling and Design published by Prentice Hall, 1991. He is also co-author with Will Schroeder and Ken Martin of the book The Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics published by Prentice Hall in November 1997. He gives frequent tutorials at the annual SIGGRAPH and IEEE Visualization conferences.
Bill holds twenty six US Patents on medical and visualization algorithms. In 1991, he was named a Coolidge Fellow, the highest scientific honor at GE's Corporate R&D.
Prior to joining GE in 1978, he was a Mathematician at the US Army Benet Weapons Laboratory where he worked on computer graphics software for structural analysis. He has a BS in Mathematics and an MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.