Two of Pixar Animation Studios’ earliest employees, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, have won the computer industry’s Turing Prize for their contributions to 3D graphics and CGI filmmaking.
The duo will split the $1 million cash prize for the Association for Computing Machinery’s A.M. Turing Award, which is sometimes referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing” and named for British mathematician and computer scientist Alan M.
Turing. Catmull is a computer scientist and former president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, who retired from his Pixar post in 2018.
Hanrahan, a founding Pixar employee, currently is a professor in Stanford University’s Computer Graphics Laboratory. “Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan have fundamentally influenced the
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