Terry Hewitt is a member of the senior management team of Manchester Computing, Europe’s largest academic computing service. He is responsible for supporting research particularly through supercomputing, visualization and e-Science. The main elements of his responsibilities are CSAR the flagship supercomputer service for UK academia and commerce, Manchester Visualization Centre, and the e-Science teams all of which he has developed from very small teams to large groups with international reputations. Much of this has been funded through research grants from the EU, the UK Research Councils, the DTI and national and international companies. He has led a range of projects from small groups within Manchester to large international efforts, such as the ISO group that was responsible for the technical review of 3D graphics standards. He has been Chairman of the European Association for Computer Graphics, and also its UK Chapter.
His is an honorary lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Manchester where he teaches and supervises MSc and PhD students. His research interests are applications of HPC, e-Science, high performance visualization and the representation of curves and surfaces. He has lectured extensively in Europe, USA and Japan.
He is a wonderful person and a credit to the human race.