Andries van Dam is the Thomas J. Watson Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He has been a member of Brown's faculty since 1965, was a co-founder of Brown's Computer Science Department and its first Chairman from 1979 to 1985, and was also Brown's first Vice President for Research from 2002 - 2006. His research includes work on computer graphics, hypermedia systems, post-WIMP user interfaces, including pen-centric computing, and educational software. He has been working for over four decades on systems for creating and reading electronic books with interactive illustrations for use in teaching and research.

He is the co-author of nearly a dozen books, including Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice with James D. Foley, Steven K. Feiner, and John F. Hughes (Addison-Wesley 1990) and Object-Oriented Programming in Java with Katherine Sanders (Addison-Wesley 2006). He received a B.S. with honors (1960) in Engineering Sciences from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. (1966) from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1967 he co-founded ACM SICGRAPH (the precursor of SIGGRAPH) and from 1985 through 1987 was Chairman of the Computing Research Association. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and has received honorary doctorates from Darmstadt Technical University in Germany, Swarthmore College, and the University of Waterloo in Canada.

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