Computer Graphics Achievement Award: Greg Ward

ACM SIGGRAPH presents the Computer Graphics Achievement Award to Greg Ward, for the development of the Radiance Synthetic Imaging System. Radiance promoted the use of computer graphics in applications requiring physical accuracy, and raised the bar for the quality and efficiency of graphics rendering algorithms. Radiance has been distributed without cost since 1989. As such, it anticipated the Web or the Open Source movement. It has been used as a tool in many disciplines and as a software testbed in computer graphics research. It is now in its 19th release and is the subject of an annual, international workshop.