Hans J. W. Spoelder

Hans J. W. Spoelder received the M.Sc. degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree in biophysics from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1980 and 1987, respectively. He has researched many topics regarding the boundaries of physics and computer science both locally and with the Verdical User Environment Group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, which earlier included computational physics and later visualization and the integration of education and information systems with the Physics Applied Computer Science Group that he started. His last projects included the ICWall, which is a stereo-tiled display placed in a classroom to enable education supported by stereo 3-D graphics. He passed away on April 1, 2003.