Martin Newell (computer scientist)
Martin Edward Newell | |
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| Alma mater | University of Utah |
| Known for | Utah Teapot[1] Newell's algorithm |
| Awards | Elected member of the National Academy of Engineering |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | CADCentre University of Utah Xerox PARC CADLINC Ashlar Adobe |
| Thesis | The Utilization of Procedure Models in Digital Image Synthesis (1975) |
| Website | academic |
Martin Edward Newell is a British-born computer scientist specializing in computer graphics. He is the creator of the Utah teapot, one of the benchmark models in 3D rendering.[2]
Career
[edit | edit source]Before immigrating to the US, he worked at what was then the Computer-Aided Design Centre (CADCentre) in Cambridge, UK,[3] along with his brother Dick Newell (who went on to co-found two of the most important UK graphics software companies – Cambridge Interactive Systems (CIS) in 1977 and Smallworld in 1987). At CADCentre, the two Newells and Tom Sancha developed Newell's algorithm, a technique for eliminating cyclic dependencies when ordering polygons to be drawn by a computer graphics system.[4][5][6]
Newell developed the Utah teapot while working on a Ph.D. at the University of Utah,[1][7] where he also helped develop a version of the painter's algorithm for rendering. He graduated in 1975, and was on the Utah faculty from 1977 to 1979.[8] Later he worked at Xerox PARC, where he worked on JaM, a predecessor of PostScript. JaM stood for "John and Martin" – the John was John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Systems.[9]
Newell departed Xerox PARC to join CADLINC Inc.,[10] a factory automation startup, as VP of Advanced Development. There he led the development of a variety of CAD/CAM software applications, such as CimCAD (a 3-D drafting program) [11] and Intelligent Documentation [12] (an early electronic document editor integrating text, graphics, and information from relational databases).
He departed CADLINC to found the computer-aided design software company Ashlar in 1988.[8] In 2007, Newell was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to computer-graphics modeling, rendering, and printing.[13] He recently[when?] retired as an Adobe Fellow at Adobe Systems.[citation needed]
References
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- ^ Martin Newell publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
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- ^ a b History of the University of Utah School of Computing, retrieved 2010-01-26.
- ^ Adobe Co-founder John Warnock on the Competitive Advantages of Aesthetics and the 'Right' Technology, Knowledge@Wharton, The Wharton School, 20 January 2010.
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- ^ Dr. Martin E. Newell in the NAE Members Directory, retrieved 2014-06-27.
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