Bob Sproull
Bob Sproull | |
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 Bob Sproull in 2008 | |
| Born | c. 1945 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University, Stanford University |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Strategy construction using a synthesis of heuristic and decision-theoretic methods (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jerome A. Feldman |
| Doctoral students | Brian Reid Carl Ebeling James Gosling Pradeep Sindhu |
Robert Fletcher "Bob" Sproull (born c. 1945) is an American
College of Information and Computer Sciences, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1]
Biography
While working towards his B.A. in physics at Harvard College in 1967, Sproull met Ivan Sutherland. Together, they worked on head-mounted displays, which led the way for 3-dimensional virtual reality.
Sproull received his master's degree in
Computer Science from Stanford University in 1970, and Doctorate in Computer Science from Stanford in 1977.[2]
Sproull worked as a researcher for
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
from December 1973 to August 1977.
While at Xerox PARC, he worked on the design of the Alto personal computer,[3]
the first operating systems
.
In 1973, Sproull and
William M. Newman wrote Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics; a second edition was published in 1979. This was the first comprehensive textbook on computer graphics, and was regarded as the graphics "bible," until it was succeeded by Foley and van Dam's Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
.
Sproull was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1980, Bob Sproull and Ivan Sutherland founded a consulting firm, Sutherland, Sproull and Associates.
In 1990,
Sun was purchased by Oracle Corporation, it became Oracle Labs.[2]
Sproull is also a member of the
United States National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB).[5] He has co-authored several books in addition to Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics, such as Logical Effort, and holds 7 patents.[citation needed
]
Publications
- Newman, W., Sproull, R. (1979), Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics, ISBN 0-07-046338-7.
- Molnar, C., Sproull, R., Sutherland, I. (1994), Counterflow Pipeline Processor Architecture, Sun Microsystems, Technical Report TR-94-25.
References
- ^ "Sproull, Bob". College of Information and Computer Sciences. 5 July 2012.
- ^ a b "Bob Sproull". The People at Oracle Labs. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
- ^ Thacker, C.P.; McCreight, E.M.; Lampson, B.W.; Sproull, R.F.; Boggs, D.R. (1982), "Alto: a personal computer", Computer Structures: Principles and Examples: 549–572, retrieved 2010-09-02
- ^ Charles Cooper (June 8, 2006). "Newsmaker: Sun Labs' new boss". cnet news. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
- ^ "Membership of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved March 23, 2012.
External links
- Origins of Spline-Based and Anti-Aliased Fonts
- Robert Fletcher Sproull at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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