From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 23786 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2023 23:49:47 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 21 Aug 2023 23:49:47 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E77042A64; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:49:41 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuhs.org; s=dkim; t=1692661781; h=from:from:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-owner:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post; bh=8pVbt2uZhn/Mm8MC/9G1wHcccJDH8/7TYaB5mSFfZFs=; b=uw8H+7T3Q9sqbYuQnx24202bOw2Cub7D1kLVRrXHJsWLrzgmcrb9j502QzX8NwF6+YaaMS bmKRqyZibTy7mAnrmpTeewY1ix5iJnyniRtoLyXPTyVywBoCgDfHvIS6gEJzPD4721Dxti P01/Dnx5U4EzaT7xeCUlYc/9/Aw9smY= Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [66.165.241.226]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED43E42A60 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:49:29 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=nomadlogic.org; s=04242021; t=1692661768; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=8pVbt2uZhn/Mm8MC/9G1wHcccJDH8/7TYaB5mSFfZFs=; b=W7zncRTbRwqReamnvM0GVqE6Ubq3aILyAOYg80Mb5z2DwLoYX4oCqjj3M3UiXvGE4bs3Fw MaQRZiVcp7WgSqTiEfjvY+KCvEPrs993DRHvMZAJlBK/bN0noufFEsLuwRipO2Pvup8Eyy y1S2lY8vVQHVpMjrZgScicpGGfh95fo= Received: from [192.168.1.160] (cpe-24-24-168-214.socal.res.rr.com [24.24.168.214]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id b6c9127e (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO) for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2023 23:49:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <0e67533b-da31-719a-e712-e798ca1bbe30@nomadlogic.org> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:49:27 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.14.0 Content-Language: en-US To: tuhs@tuhs.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID-Hash: SXLHBS2Q2HNDSLKF3E5XZ2VJIFUOIU6T X-Message-ID-Hash: SXLHBS2Q2HNDSLKF3E5XZ2VJIFUOIU6T X-MailFrom: pete@nomadlogic.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: John Warnock [1940--2023] List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: Pete Wright via TUHS Reply-To: Pete Wright On 8/21/23 14:24, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > [This posting was sent earlier today to some local lists, but may also > be of interest to TUHS members.] > > The UofUtah lost one its significant alumni, John Warnock, on Saturday. > > John received Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Department of > Mathematics, and his doctoral degree from the Department of Electrical > Engineering. > > After jobs at Evans & Sutherland in Salt Lake City, and Xerox PARC > labs in Palo Alto, CA, he later went on to co-found Adobe Systems with > Chuck Geschke (1939--2021), and the PostScript, PDF, and font > technologies, and many others, that came from their company changed > the publishing model of the entire world. > Wow I never realized the work he did with the Warnock algorithm, as in I was familiar with similar approaches to rendering in film and video (tiling and stitching frames together in renderman for example) - but was never made aware that those approaches probably stemmed from his phd thesis. I feel like a lot of modern data processing pipelines could learn a thing or two from this approach. Thanks for sharing... -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA