[FRIAM] IEEE Milestone celebrating computer graphics history at U of Utah

[Guerin, Stephen]

Wow, what a gathering at Utah on Thurs and Friday.

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Left to Right: Alvy Ray Smith, John Warnock, Henri Gouraud, Ed Catmull, Henry Fuchs, Martin Newell, Jim Blinn

https://www.price.utah.edu/ieee-milestone-events#ieee-milestone

Youtube recordings
Thursday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUFp6sjKbkE
Friday AM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzEaM6QAy-4
Friday PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui3R1Dlmsk0

List of Speakers

  *   James Blinn, Ph.D., 1978 — Created specular lighting models, bump mapping and environment mapping for surface textures in graphical images.
  *   Ed Catmull, Ph.D., 1974 — Pioneer in computer animation who co-developed RenderMan rendering software. Co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and winner of five Academy Awards.
  *   Jim Clark, Ph.D., 1974 — Rebuilt the head-mounted display and 3-D wand to see and interact with 3-D graphic spaces. Founder of Netscape and Silicon Graphics.
  *   Henry Fuchs, Ph.D., 1975 — Innovator in high-performance graphics hardware, 3-D medical imaging and head-mounted display and virtual environments.
  *   Henri Gouraud, Ph.D., 1971 — Created the Gouraud shading method for polygon smoothing—a simple rendering method that dramatically improved the appearance of 3-D objects.
  *   Alan Kay, Ph.D., 1969 — Envisioned the windowing graphical user interface at Xerox PARC, which led to the design of Apple MacIntosh and Windows computers.
  *   Martin Newell, Ph.D., 1975 — Developed procedural modeling for 3-D object rendering. Co-developed the Painter’s algorithm for surface rendering.
  *   Rodney Rougelot — Former president and chief executive officer of Salt Lake City-based Evans & Sutherland, which then developed military and aviation simulators with 3-D graphics.
  *   Robert A. Schumaker — An engineer with Evans & Sutherland who conceived a new architecture for rendering complex, high-quality 3-D images for its flight simulators.
  *   Alvy Ray Smith — Co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios. First Director of Computer Graphics for George Lucas’ Lucasfilm.
  *   Ivan Sutherland, U Computer Science Professor, 1968-1974 — Inventor of Sketchpad, the first interactive graphics program with geometric constraints. Co-founded Evans & Sutherland with David Evans.
  *   John Warnock, Ph.D., 1969 — Developed the Warnock recursive subdivision algorithm for hidden surface elimination. Co-founder of Adobe, which developed the Postscript language for desktop publishing and is now one of the largest software brands in the world.

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Stephen Guerin
Harvard Earth and Planetary Sciences
Visualization Research and Teaching Lab
stephenguerin at fas.harvard.edu
mobile: (505) 577-5828
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