Dr. Harry Smith was honored at a retirement party on Monday, April 19, 2004.

Dr. Smith arrived at UNCW in August 1987, first as a visiting professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, and then later as a tenured associate professor. Dr. Smith received his BS, MA, and PhD from Columbia University in Applied Mathematics (computer science was not yet a discipline). Harry had been with IBM for 30 years, primarily at the Palo Alto Scientific Center, before coming to UNCW. He also taught computer science as an adjunct professor at San Jose State from 1982-1987.

Harry has been very active in the Computer Science community. He has written a textbook in Data Structures and has served on the ACM SIGGRAPH (computer graphics) conference committee for many years. His research interests lie in the areas of data structures, computer graphics, and parallel computing. He was awarded an NSF grant to develop UNCW's undergraduate parallel computing course and was one of the key leaders in developing our "3-D Computer Graphics Tools and Literacy" and "Computer Animation" courses.

Below are some pictures taken at the party! Feel free to send retirement wishes to Dr. Smith at hsmith@uncw.edu.