Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • About
    • Department
    • History
    • Facilities
    • Spotlight
    • Graduation
    • Employment
    • Faculty Awards
    • Staff Awards
  • News
    • News
    • Calendar
    • Social Media
  • People
    • Primary Faculty
    • Supporting Faculty
    • Staff
    • Postdocs
    • Visiting Scholars
  • Undergrad
    • Undergraduate
    • Computer Engineering
    • Electrical Engineering
      • REES Concentration
    • Undergraduate Research
    • Scholarships
    • Apply
  • Graduate
    • Graduate
    • Master’s
    • Doctoral
    • Graduate FAQ
    • Apply
  • Research
    • Research
      • Bioelectronics Engineering
      • Communications and Signal Processing
      • Computer Architecture and Systems
      • Control, Robotics, and Mechatronics
      • Electronic Circuits and Systems
      • Networking
      • Physical Electronics, Photonics & Magnetics
      • Power Electronics and Power Systems
    • Centers & Labs
    • Funded Research
    • Seminars
  • Engagement
    • Engagement
    • Advisory Board
    • Alumni
      • Alumni in Academia
      • ECE & Alumni Startups
      • Distinguished Alumni
    • Archived: Alumni Hall of Fame
    • Corporate
    • Student Organizations
  • Visit
Select Page
  • Corporate
  • Alumni
    • Alumni
    • All Eyes On Alumni
    • Alumni in Academia
    • ECE & Alumni Startups
    • Distinguished Alumni
  • Alumni & Community Awards
  • Organizations
  • Advisory Board
  • Donate

Hall of Fame 2018

Nick England

Nick England graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from NC State University in 1969. After working for a few years, he returned to NC State to take EE graduate courses and became a Research Assistant in Professor John Staudhammer’s computer graphics lab. There he discovered a talent for digital hardware design and a passion for interactive computer graphics and image processing. In 1978, instead of finishing his Ph.D., he and Mary Whitton started Ikonas Graphics Systems, based on Nick’s research at NC State, creating a programmable raster graphics processor system which was the forerunner of today’s GPGPUs. After Ikonas was acquired by Adage Inc, Nick spent several years as Adage’s VP of Graphics Technology until leaving to found Trancept Systems with Tim Van Hook and Mary Whitton – creating a programmable graphics/imaging processor to plug into Sun Microsystems workstations. After Trancept was acquired by Sun Microsystems, Nick spent several years as their Director of Visualization and Imaging Products. In 1993 he joined UNC Chapel Hill’s Computer Science Department as a Research Professor, working on the PixelFlow massively parallel graphics system. During this time he served on several local company and national technical association boards of directors. In 2000 he left UNC to form 3rdTech Inc., commercializing several graphics/imaging technologies developed at the University. In 2015, he finally quit trying to create new products and start new companies, and today enjoys documenting the history of US Naval Communications and restoring vintage Navy radio and teletype equipment .

Visit

Apply

Values

Give

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

890 Oval Drive
3114 Engineering Building II
Raleigh, NC 27606

919.515.2336

  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
Map of Centennial Campus
© NC State University. All rights reserved.

Webmaster  |   Accessibilty   |   Privacy   |   myECE