Richard Shoup (programmer)
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Dr. Richard Shoup is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who is mainly known from his pioneering work on computer graphics and animation. He is from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, but currently resides in San Jose, California.[1] In 1973, while working as one of the first employees at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, he build SuperPaint, one of the first image editing programs.[2][3] In 1979, he co-founded Aurora Systems, a now-defunct company that was an early producer of digital animation hardware and software. He is currently an associate at the Boundary Institute for the Study of Foundations, a non-profit organisation that is involved in research into physical sciences and parapsychology.[1]
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- ^ a b Personal bio on the Boundary Institute website
- ^ Shoup, Richard. The SuperPaint System (1973-1979), available on Richard Shoup's home page, consulted on 16 September 2011
- ^ Shoup, Richard. 2001. SuperPaint: An early frame buffer graphics system. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 23(2), 32-37 (Download article)