Pat Hanrahan
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Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics pioneer, Stanford professor, and Turing Award–winning researcher best known for co-founding Tableau and his influential work on rendering and visualization.
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| instanceOf |
Turing Award laureate
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computer graphics researcher → computer scientist → university professor → |
| academicDiscipline |
computer science
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electrical engineering → |
| almaMater |
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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| awardReceived |
ACM A.M. Turing Award
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ACM Fellow → ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award → ACM SIGGRAPH Steven Anson Coons Award → Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement → Academy Award for Technical Achievement → IEEE Visualization Career Award → |
| citizenship |
United States
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| coFounderOf |
Tableau
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Tableau Software → |
| contributedTo |
RenderMan rendering system
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development of shading languages → graphics hardware design → |
| degree |
PhD in biophysics
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| employer |
Pixar
NERFINISHED
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Princeton University → Silicon Graphics → Stanford University NERFINISHED → |
| fieldOfWork |
computer graphics
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data visualization → image synthesis → parallel computing → rendering → |
| founded |
Tableau Software
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| givenName |
Patrick
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| knownFor |
RenderMan shading language
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co-founding Tableau Software → computer graphics → data visualization → graphics hardware architectures → physically based rendering → rendering algorithms → volume rendering → |
| memberOf |
ACM SIGGRAPH community
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Association for Computing Machinery → |
| name |
Pat Hanrahan
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| nationality |
American
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| notableStudent |
Jeff Heer
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| notableWork |
RenderMan shading language design
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Tableau visual analytics system → research on light transport → work on programmable graphics pipelines → |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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professor → researcher → |
| positionHeld |
Canon Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
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| reasonForAward |
contributions to data visualization through Tableau
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fundamental contributions to 3D computer graphics → pioneering work on rendering and image synthesis → |
| researchInterest |
GPU architectures
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parallel rendering → scientific visualization → visual analytics → |
| turingAwardSharedWith |
Edwin Catmull
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| turingAwardYear |
2019
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| workedAt |
Pixar
NERFINISHED
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Princeton University → Silicon Graphics → |
| workInstitution |
Stanford University
NERFINISHED
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Chris Stolte
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coFounderWith |
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Chris Stolte
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doctoralAdvisor |
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Tableau
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founder |
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Graphics Group
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Pat Hanrahan
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name |