Edwin Catmull
Sign in to saveAmerican computer scientist and former president of Pixar (born 1945)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1945-03-31
- Works
- 9
Top works
- HBR's 10 Must Reads on Creativity (with Bonus Article How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity by Ed Catmull)
- HBR's 10 Must Reads on Creativity
- Creativity, Inc
- Creatividad, S.A.
- Creativity, Inc.
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Film & TV
Production · Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA
Edwin Earl "Ed" Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist who is the co-founder of Pixar and was the President of Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has been honored for his contributions to 3D computer graphics, including the 2019 ACM Turing Award.
Known for
- Inside The Works — Self2026
- LIGHT & MAGIC — Self - Computer Graphics2022
- LIGHT & MAGIC — Self - UC Berkeley, 1981 (archive footage)2022
- LIGHT & MAGIC — Self - Head of Lucasfilm Computer Division, 1979-19852022
- Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond — Self2015
- Pixar 25 Magic Moments — Self - President / Co-Founder2011
- Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible — Self2010
- Waking Sleeping Beauty — Self (archive footage)2009
- The Pixar Story — Self2007
- The Pixar Shorts: A Short History2007
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 4
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Luminosity Function and Stellar Evolution.
· 1955 · cited 7,329x
- Regression Diagnostics
· 1980 · cited 6,443x
- The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule—Generic: A Standard Measure of Social and Communication Deficits Associated with the Spectrum of Autism
· 2000 · cited 6,266x
- Cognition in the Wild
· 1995 · cited 6,084x
- Mutations in Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase gene are associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
· 1993 · cited 5,476x
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Key dates
- Born
- 31 March 1945
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edwin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Parkersburg
- Occupation
- film director
- Employer
- Q1047410
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- computer graphics
- Image
- VES Awards 89 cropped.jpg
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1945 births20th-century Mormon missionariesAcademy Award for Technical Achievement winnersAmerican computer scientistsAmerican Mormon missionaries in the United StatesAnimators from West VirginiaArtists from Wood County, West VirginiaComputer graphics pioneersComputer graphics professionalsComputer graphics researchersDisney executivesFellows of the Association for Computing Machinery