Английская Википедия:Alan W. Paeth

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Шаблон:Short description Alan W. PaethШаблон:Pronunciation? (11 May 1956 - 3 June 2018) was a Canadian computer scientist and author.

Life and education

Alan William Paeth was born on May 11, 1956, in Seattle, Washington. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Caltech and his PhD at the University of Waterloo in 1994.[1] His doctoral advisor was William B. Cowan and his doctoral dissertation was on Linear Models of Reflective Colour.[1] He married Catherine Anne Person in 1983; she predeceased him in 2008.[2]

He died in Kelowna, British Columbia, on June 3, 2018.[3]

Career

He was professor of computer science at Okanagan University in British Columbia.[4]

He made major research contributions to computer graphics and has made seminal contributions in the field of Portable Network Graphics including Shear mapping.


Selected publications

His notable books include:[5][6]

  • Graphics Gems V
  • Algorithms for fast color correction
  • The IM raster toolkit : design, implementation and use
  • Linear models of reflective colour

References

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External links

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