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The '''Dynamic Graphics Project''' (commonly referred to as '''DGP''') is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the [[University of Toronto]] devoted to projects involving [[Computer Graphics]], [[Computer Vision]], and [[Human Computer Interaction]]. The lab began as the computer graphics research group of [[Computer Science|Computer Science]] Professor Leslie Mezei in 1967 .<ref>http://hciweb.cs.toronto.edu/DGPis40/speakers_session5.html</ref>. Mezei invited [[Bill Buxton]], a pioneer of [[human-computer interaction|human–computer interaction]] to join. In 1972, [[Ronald Baecker]], another [[human-computer interaction|HCI]] pioneer joined DGP, establishing DGP as the first Canadian university group focused on computer graphics and human-computer interaction.<ref>http://graphicsinterface.org/wp-content/uploads/gi2005-frontmatter.pdf Ron Baecker CHCCS 2005 Achievement Award</ref>.

Since then, DGP has hosted many well known faculty and students in computer graphics, computer vision and HCI (e.g., [[William Reeves (animator)| Bill Reeves]], [[Jos Stam]], [[Demetri Terzopoulos]]). DGP also occasionally hosts [[artist in residence|artists in residence]] (e.g., [[Academy Award | Oscar]]-winner [[Chris Landreth]]<ref>https://www.utoronto.ca/news/oscar-winning-animator-and-filmmaker-chris-landreth-u-t-computer-science</ref>). Many past and current researchers at [[Autodesk]] (and before that [[Alias Systems Corporation | Alias Wavefront]]) graduated after working at DGP.<ref>http://hciweb.cs.toronto.edu/DGPis40/alumni.php?page=home</ref>. DGP is located in the St. George Campus of University of Toronto in the [[Bahen Centre for Information Technology]]. DGP researchers regularly publish at [[ACM SIGGRAPH]], [[ACM SIGCHI]] and [[ICCV]].

Since then, DGP has hosted many well known faculty and students in computer graphics, computer vision and HCI (e.g., [[William Reeves (animator)| Bill Reeves]], [[Jos Stam]], [[Demetri Terzopoulos]]). DGP also occasionally hosts [[artist in residence|artists in residence]] (e.g., [[Academy Award | Oscar]]-winner [[Chris Landreth]]<ref>https://www.utoronto.ca/news/oscar-winning-animator-and-filmmaker-chris-landreth-u-t-computer-science</ref>). Many past and current researchers at [[Autodesk]] (and before that [[Alias Systems Corporation | Alias Wavefront]]) graduated after working at DGP.<ref>http://hciweb.cs.toronto.edu/DGPis40/alumni.php?page=home</ref>. DGP is located in the St. George Campus of University of Toronto in the [[Bahen Centre for Information Technology]]. DGP researchers regularly publish at [[ACM SIGGRAPH]], [[ACM SIGCHI]] and [[ICCV]].

==Notable Alumni==

* [[Bill Buxton]] (MS 1978)

* [[William Reeves (animator)| Bill Reeves]] (MS 1976, Ph.D. 1980)<ref>https://www.utoronto.ca/news/honorary-graduate-william-reeves</ref>

* [[Jos Stam]] (MS 1991, Ph.D. 1995)<ref>http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/stam/reality/Research/pub.html</ref>

==References==