Associate Professor
Joined School 1988
BSc (Waterloo),
PhD (McGill)
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| William B Cowan
Associate Professor Joined School 1988 BSc (Waterloo),
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Professor Cowan's research is primarily interactive computer graphics. Specifically he is interested in the the perceptual relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional perception, computer-mediated sensory substitution, colour and attention. He is Director of the Computer Graphics Lab, and has been cross-appointed in the Departments of Psychology and Fine Arts. He is also a professorial fellow at the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology where he studies the role of the university in national systems of innovation.
W.B. Cowan, R. Cowan, and P. Lerena. Winning the Marathon: How Universities should Compete. In Learning to Compete in European Universities, ed. by M. McKelvey & M. Holmen, 278-299. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009.
W.B. Cowan, E.S. Olds, and P. Jolicoeur. The Time-course of Pop-out Search. Vision Research, 40:891-912, 2000.
W.B. Cowan, M.C. Stone, and J.C. Beatty. Colour Gamut Mapping and the Printing of Digital Color Images, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 7:249-292, 1988.
G. D. Logan and W. B. Cowan. On the Ability to Inhibit Thought and Action: A Theory of an Act of Control. Psychological Review, 93: 295-327, 1984.
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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