Maxine D. Brown

Maxine D. Brown is an American computer scientist and retired director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Along with Tom DeFanti and Bruce McCormick, she co-edited the 1987 NSF report Visualization in Scientific Computing, which defined the field of scientific visualization. She holds a BA in mathematics from Temple University and an MS in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to UIC in 1986 she was a professional communications consultant specializing in technical communications for the computer graphics industry, was Director of Documentation at Digital Productions until October 1983, and had worked at ISSCO Graphics and Hewlett-Packard. She became associate director of EVL in 1987, is a steering committee member of the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly and a founding member of the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, and received the 1998 SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award.