Smith, Alvy Ray
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born 1943:</p>
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pioneer in computer graphics.</p>
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founded Pixar with Ed Catmull;</p>
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learned oil painting from his uncle.</p>
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1965 bs ee from New Mexico State.
1970 PhD in CS from Stfd: cellular automat theory.</p>
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1969 to 1973: assoc prof EECS at NYU: in computer graphics.</p>
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went to work at PARC in 1974 (during its heyday) worked on SuperPaint.
created his first animations in SuperPaint.</p>
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In 1975 joined Computer Graphics Lab aty NY Instit of TEch: leading comp graphics res group.
met Ed Catmull there.</p>
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The group now known as Pixar began there... alongside trad. cel animation.</p>
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worked at NYIT til 1979... then briefly at JPL on the Carl Sagan Cosmos show.</p>
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with Ed Catmull, he was a founding member of Lucasfilm Computer Div...</p>
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as Direc of CGProject he created and direc the Genesis Demo in Wrath of Khan.</p>
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He and Ed co-founded Pixar in 1986... argument with Steve Jobs.
(Pixar ignores Aly's contribs on their website.)</p>
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1988 to 1992: member of Bd of Regents of NLM;
(friends with Don Lindberg (highly regarded director)
worked on Visible Human Project.</p>
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91 left pIxar to cofound Altamira Software, acq my MSFT in 94.
1st CG fellow at MSFT.</p>
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retired from MSFT in 99;</p>
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