[SIGCIS-Members] Honoring Computer Graphics at Utah

[Brian Berg]

Hello,

A big celebration is taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday and
Friday of this week to celebrate the computer graphics techniques invented
by a group of PhD students and others who studied at the Univ. of Utah from
the late 60s to the late 70s.  An IEEE Milestone
<https://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Computer_Graphics_Development>
will
be dedicated on Friday morning, and that will be the big event of this
2-day celebration.  The title and citation of the bronze plaque that will
be unveiled sums up what will be celebrated:


*Development of Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques, 1965-1978**In
1965, the University of Utah established a Center of Excellence for
computer graphics research with Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
funding. In 1968, two professors founded the pioneering graphics hardware
company Evans & Sutherland; by 1978, fundamental rendering and
visualization techniques disclosed in doctoral dissertations included the
Warnock algorithm, Gouraud shading, the Catmull-Rom spline, and the
Blinn-Phong reflection model. Alumni-founded companies include Atari,
Silicon Graphics, Adobe, Pixar, and Netscape.*

*Overall details of the events:*
  https://www.price.utah.edu/ieee-milestone-events
*An overview of the people being celebrated:*
 https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/utahs-graphics-pioneers/


*Live Stream Links (and for later viewing)*Thursday, 23 March: *Univ. of
Utah CS Dept. 50th Anniv. Celebration* (9am-4pm PDT / 10am-5pm MDT
/ 16:00-23:00 UTC):
 https://youtube.com/live/LUFp6sjKbkE?feature=share
 (concludes with keynote by Ivan Sutherland at 3pm PDT / 4pm MDT / 22:00
UTC)
Friday, 24 March: *IEEE Milestone Dedication Event* (9-11am PDT / 10am-Noon
MDT / 16:00-18:00 UTC):
 https://youtube.com/live/VzEaM6QAy-4?feature=share
Friday, 24 March: *Graphics Symposium* (12:45-4pm PDT / 1:45-5pm MDT /
19:45-23:00 UTC):
 https://youtube.com/live/ui3R1Dlmsk0?feature=share

See attached for the program for Friday's events.

*The Remarkable Ivan Sutherland*
The Computer History Museum recently set up a website to celebrate Ivan
Sutherland, who will participate in this week's events:
 https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-remarkable-ivan-sutherland/
Ivan's PhD thesis on Sketchpad <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad> was
required reading for those early Utah students:
 https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102726907
and note that his Acknowledgements include his thesis supervisor Claude
Shannon, and that he was assisted by Marvin Minsky, Steven Coons, and Larry
Roberts.

Enjoy!
_________________________
Brian A. Berg / bberg at StanfordAlumni.org
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