PROFESSOR EMERITUS FAREWELL (2013)

 

SENDING FRANZ LEBERL OFF INTO THE ROLE OF „PROFESSOR EMERITUS“
IN THE UNIVERSITY AULA — 2013

Attendees in the festive assembly hall of the University, opened by his Majesty Emperor Franz-Joseph in 1888

The laudator Horst Bischof, University Vice-President for Research. is handing over a bust of the new Professor Emeritus

From left: Stephen Lawler [Microsoft], Traudl Leberl, Norbert Rozsenich [Sektionschef, Ministry of Science],Stefan Scherer [Doctoral graduate and founder of Alicona GmbH], Franz Leberl, Shahram Izadi [Microsoft Research], Franz Wotawa [Dean of Computer Science], Dieter Schmalstieg [Head of Institute, succeeding Franz Leberl]

A bust in the back of the Institute’s main lecture room is accompanied by the master and doctoral theses. The bust was produced automatically by a 3D printer using digital data obtained from photos taken under a pretext earlier in 2013. The main lecture room of the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision has been renamed the „Franz Leberl Seminarraum