Patrick M Hanrahan was born on 1954 and is an American computer graphics researcher, the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University.
10 Facts About Pat Hanrahan
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Pat Hanrahan's research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing units, as well as scientific illustration and visualization.
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Pat Hanrahan has received numerous awards, including the 2019 Turing Award.
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Pat Hanrahan was credited in Pixar productions including The Magic Egg, Tin Toy and Toy Story.
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In 2003 Pat Hanrahan co-founded Tableau Software and remains its chief scientist.
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Pat Hanrahan was the doctoral advisor of Peter Schroder and Tamara Munzner.
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Pat Hanrahan received three Academy Awards for his work in rendering and computer graphics research.
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Pat Hanrahan was inducted into the 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Inaugural Class.
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Pat Hanrahan became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1999, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007 and of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2008, and received three university teaching awards at Stanford.
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Pat Hanrahan shared the 2019 ACM AM Turing Award with Catmull for their pioneering efforts on computer-generated imagery.