Edwin Catmull

Edwin Earl Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist. He is the current president of Pixar (a company he co-founded) and Walt Disney Animation Studios.^[1][2][3] As a computer scientist, Catmull has work on many important developments in computer graphics.^[4][5] He was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia.^[6]

Catmull in 2010

In October 2018, Catmull announced his plans to retire from Pixar Animation Studios and Disney Animation Studios, staying on as an adviser through July 2019.^[7] And in 2019, he won Turing Award for his work.

References

1. Cook, R. L.; Carpenter, L.; Catmull, E. (1987). "The Reyes image rendering architecture" (PDF). ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 21 (4): 95–102. doi:10.1145/37402.37414. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
2. Price, David P. T. (2009). The Pixar Touch (Vintage). London: Vintage. ISBN 978-0-307-27829-6.
3. Michael Rubin, "Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution" (2005), ISBN 0-937404-67-5
4. Edwin E. Catmull at DBLP Bibliography Server
5. List of publications from Microsoft Academic
6. "Parkersburg, West Virginia". City-Data.com. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
7. "Pixar Co-Founder Ed Catmull to Retire". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2018-10-23.