The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD)

In 1987, Chuck Csuri and Tom Linehan (later President of the Ringling School of Design) converted the Computer Graphics Research Group into The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD). With funding from a long-term Ohio Board of Regents grant, ACCAD was established to provide computer animation resources in teaching, research, and production for all departments in the College of the Arts at Ohio State