Speaking at the annual SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Los Angeles, California (US), Ed Catmull, president, Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, said "Creating ...

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Patrick M. (Pat) Hanrahan and Edwin E. (Ed) Catmull recipients of the 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions to 3-D computer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The duo will split the $1 million cash prize for the Association for Computing Machinery’s A.M. Turing Award, which is sometimes ...

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Two of Pixar Animation Studios’ earliest employees, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, have won the computer industry’s prestigious Turing Prize for their contributions to 3D graphics and CGI filmmaking.