Professor Prusinkiewicz belongs to a generation of Polish Engineers/Computer scientists who greatly expanded on the work of their predecessors who in turn had t

Professor Prusinkiewicz belongs to a generation of Polish Engineers/Computer scientists who greatly expanded on the work of their predecessors who in turn had to essentially restart the education system after WW2. Much of the syllabus for undergraduate courses was written by these people, who continued contributing well into retirement. I daresay the tech landscape in this country today would be very different without them.