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

[Frank Wimberly]

Distinguished graybeards.  I got my PhD in 1978.  Am I as old as that guy??

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 8:05 AM Barry MacKichan <barry.mackichan at mackichan.com>
wrote:

> Mount Olympus!
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> Sent from my iPad
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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
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>    - 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.
>
>
> __
> 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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