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By Vince Horiuchi - public relations associate, College of Engineering
They were a group of young, scrappy, but brilliant University of Utah computer science students and professors who changed the world.
Ed Catmull. John Warnock. Jim Clark. Alan Kay. Ivan Sutherland. Martin Newell. They are a just a handful of the luminaries in the late 1960s and 1970s who revolutionized computer graphics by inventing technologies that have aided and shaped countless industries today.
For the first time ever, these and other legends of that time will be reuniting on the U campus Thursday, March 23, and Friday, March 24, to commemorate their roles as 3D graphics pioneers and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the U’s Kahlert School of Computing.
This once-in-a-lifetime two-day event, which is open to the public, will be held in the ballroom of the University of Utah’s Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House, 155 S. Central Campus Drive, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Click here for event information and to RSVP. Events both days will also be livestreamed on the University of Utah’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@universityofutah/streams.