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   Who is Alvy Ray Smith?

   • Dr Alvy Ray Smith cofounded - or was present at the beginning of - four centers of computer graphics excellence: Altamira Software Corporation: CEO and Cofounder 1991-1994 (Purchased by Microsoft) Pixar: Executive Vice President and Cofounder 1986-1991 (Purchased by Disney) - see Pixar founding documents

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   What is Alvy Ray Smith's new book about?

   • The computer graphics pioneer and Pixar cofounder’s new book is about way more than computer graphics and Pixar. I was only a few pages into Alvy Ray Smith’s new book, A Biography of the Pixel, when I realized that all of my preconceptions about what it might be were wrong.

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   What is Dr Smith's background?

   • Dr Smith holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford University (dissertation: Cellular Automata Theory ). He received an honorary doctorate from New Mexico State University, his undergraduate alma mater, in Dec 1999. His product, Altamira Composer, introduced the concept of image objects (sprites) to the personal computer imaging world.

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   Why did Alvy Ray quit Pixar?

   • According to Jeffrey Young and William Simon's Jobs biography, iCon, Alvy Ray quit Pixar in 1991 after a heated argument with Jobs over the use of a whiteboard. Feeling bullied by Jobs, Smith decided to publicly break the unwritten rule that no one else could use Jobs's whiteboard; they ended up screaming at each-other.

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   Alvy Ray Smith III (born September 8, 1943) is an American computer scientist who co-founded Lucasfilm's Computer Division and Pixar, participating in the 1980s and 1990s expansion of computer animation into feature film.

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   • Born: Alvy Ray Smith III, September 8, 1943 (age 80), Mineral Wells, Texas, U.S.

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   Biographies and Photographs by Ellen Su (all rights reserved) by Kathleen King. Other photos by Kathleen King . by Richard Kerris (all rights reserved)

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   Aug 31, 2021 · Alvy Ray Smith, who cofounded Pixar, was a leading figure in the early days of digital cinema. He's written a new book, The Biography of a Pixel, that traces the ideas and science that led...

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   LONG BIO. see other bios and photos. Dr Alvy Ray Smith cofounded - or was present at the beginning of - four centers of computer graphics excellence: Altamira Software Corporation: CEO and Cofounder 1991-1994 (purchased by Microsoft) Pixar : Executive Vice President, Cofounder, and Director 1986-1991 (purchased by Disney) - see Pixar founding ...

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   Dr ALVY RAY SMITH-CURRICULUM VITÆ. EDUCATION (see Honorary Doctorates) 1967-1970. PhD, Stanford University. Dissertation: Cellular Automata Theory. Advisor: Michael A Arbib. Committee: Edward J McCluskey, James F Gibbons. 1966. MS, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA.

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   Apr 2, 2024 · Computing Graphics Pioneer. Alvy Ray Smith is an Academy Award-winning computing graphics pioneer who cofounded Pixar and Altamira. He was the first director of computer graphics at Lucasfilm as well as an original member of the Computer Graphics Lab at the New York Institute of Technology.

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   Aug 2, 2021 · A legend of computer graphics, Smith is one of the people who bootstrapped the entire field in the 1970s. Then, as cofounder of Pixar, he helped get it started on the trajectory that would take...