James Davis is a Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, holding the Sage Weil Presidential Chair in Open Source Software. His research expertise is in computer graphics, machine vision, and sensing systems for building digital models of the real world, work that has resulted in over 100 peer-reviewed publications, patents, and invited talks, received best paper awards, and an NSF CAREER award. His research has been commercialized by companies including Sony and PrenticeHall.