Distinguished graybeards. I got my PhD in 1978. Am I as old as that guy??
--- 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.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > Mount Olympus! > > Sent from my iPad > > On Mar 28, 2023, at 1:24 AM, Guerin, Stephen < > stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote: > > > Wow, what a gathering at Utah on Thurs and Friday. > > <image.png> > > > 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. > > > __ > Stephen Guerin > Harvard Earth and Planetary Sciences > Visualization Research and Teaching Lab > stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu > mobile: (505) 577-5828 > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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