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Nick England is an adjunct research professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1969 and 1974 from North Carolina State University. He has spent 25 years in the computer graphics and imaging field and worked 15 years in industry prior to joining the computer science faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill full-time from 1993 to 1999. He founded two successful graphics and imaging hardware companies, Ikonas Graphics and Trancept Systems. After Trancept was acquired by Sun Microsystems, he directed a visualization and imaging product development group for Sun. At UNC-Chapel Hill, he co-designed a 26 gigabit/sec packet router chip for the PixelFlow graphics system and worked on an architecture for an image-based rendering accelerator. His research interests are in graphics and imaging hardware, image-based rendering, and advanced image display systems. He is currently CEO of 3rdTech Inc., a new firm founded to help commercialize technology developed at UNC-Chapel Hill.