Early Computer Graphics Research Labs

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• 1970 - North Carolina State Univ. (NCSU) - link
  • John Staudhammer, Nick England, Jeff Eastman, Dave Wooten, Debbie Ogden, Marc Howard, Turner Whitted, Mary Whitton, et al.
    Interview Video - Dave, Turner, Mary, Nick
  • Digitech Inc
  • Ikonas Graphics Systems - link
• Princeton (thanks to Tom Lyon for info) - photos
  • 1969: Langridge establishes the Computer Graphics Laboratory (CGL) at Princeton University as a National Research Resource of the National Institutes of Health
  • 1971: CGL acquires an Evans & Sutherland (E&S) LDS-1 interactive graphics display and a Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) PDP-10 mainframe computer to drive the display
  • 1974: Langridge develops Computer Aided Analysis of Protein Structure (CAAPS) software
  • 1976: CGL moves from Princeton to UCSF
• ? Univ. of Illinois - 1969 reprt
• ? - Univ. of North Carolina (UNC-CH) - link
  • Fred Brooks, Jim Foley, Henry Fuchs, John Poulton, John Eyles, et al.
  • Pixel Planes
• ? - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - link
  • Ivan Sutherland, Larry Roberts, Tim Johnson, et al.
  • Computer Displays Inc
• ? - Harvard Univ. - link
  • Ivan Sutherland, Bob Sproull, Danny Cohen
• ? - Ohio State Univ. (OSU) - link
  • Chuck Csuri, Wayne Carlson, Rick Parent, Ron Hackathorn, Allan Myers, Tim Van Hook, Marc Howard, Frank Crow, Julian Gomez, et al.
  • Computer Video Corp
  • Cranston-Csuri
• 1974 - TU Berlin - 
  • Wolfgang Strasser's PhD Dissertation reference
• ? - Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) - link
  • Dick Shoup, John Warnock, et al.
  • Aurora Systems
  • Adobe
• ? - Univ. of Utah - link
  • Ivan Sutherland, Dave Evans, Gary Watkins, Jim Clark, Fred Parke, Ed Catmull, Jim Blinn, et al.
  • Evans & Sutherland
  • IEEE Spectrum article link
• ? - Stanford Univ. - link
  • Jim Clark, et al.
  • Silicon Graphics
• ? - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) - link
  • Mike Wozny, Herb Freeman, William Randolph Franklin, Mary Johnson, alumni
  • Octree Corp. - Don Meagher
  • Phoenix Data Systems - Don Meagher
  • Raster Technologies - Lou Doctor, Jay Torborg
• ? - General Electric Research - link
  • Pete Atherton, Kevin Weiler, Bill Lorenson
• ? - New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) - link
  • Ed Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith, Lance Williams, Garland Stern, et al.
  • ACE hardware proposal - Jim Clark
• ? - New York Univ. (NYU) - link
  • Herb Freeman, et al.
• ? - Cornell Univ. - link
  •  Don Greenberg, et al.
• ? - Univ. of Waterloo - link
  • Kelly Booth, John Beatty, et al.
• ? - Jet Propulsion lab (JPL) - history panel video
  • Jim Blinn, Sylvie Rueff, David Em, Julian Gomez
• ? - Georgia Institute of Technology GVU lab - link
  • Jim Foley
• ? - Brown Univ. - link
  • Andy van Dam, et al.
• ? - Univ. of Illinois at Chicago Circle (UICC) Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL) - link
  • Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Dan Sandin, et al.