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

[Barry MacKichan]

Mount Olympus!

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> On Mar 28, 2023, at 1:24 AM, Guerin, Stephen <stephenguerin at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> 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
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> https://www.price.utah.edu/ieee-milestone-events#ieee-milestone
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> 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
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> 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
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