Patrick M. Hanrahan is an American computer graphics researcher and the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing units, and scientific illustration and visualization, and he received the 2019 Turing Award among numerous other awards.
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Notable WorkRenderMan Interface Specification and RenderMan Shading Language 1 BirthplaceMilwaukee, Wisconsin, United States 1 Field
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Patrick M. Hanrahan (born May 8, 1955) is an American computer graphics researcher, the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University.
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May 8, 1955
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
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is an American computer graphics researcher
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As a founding employee at Pixar Animation Studios, from 1986 to 1989 Hanrahan was part of the design of the RenderMan Interface Specification and the RenderMan Shading Language.
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He 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
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