Dr Robert F. Sproull is an American physicist, who works for Sun Microsystems where he is a Sun Fellow and Vice President at Sun Labs Massachusetts in Burlington.
While working towards his B.A. in physics at Harvard College in 1967, Sproull met Ivan Sutherland. Together, they worked on head-mounted displays, which led the way for 3-dimensional virtual reality.
Sproull received his Masters Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 197...
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Dr Robert F. Sproull is an American physicist, who works for Sun Microsystems where he is a Sun Fellow and Vice President at Sun Labs Massachusetts in Burlington.
While working towards his B.A. in physics at Harvard College in 1967, Sproull met Ivan Sutherland. Together, they worked on head-mounted displays, which led the way for 3-dimensional virtual reality.
Sproull received his Masters Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1970, and Doctorate in Computer Science from Stanford in 1977.
Prior to forming Sutherland, Sproull and Associates, Bob worked as a researcher for Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. While at Xerox PARC, Bob worked on the first laser printers, page description languages and the initial PC-type operating systems.
In 1973, Sproull and William M. Newman wrote Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics; a second edition was published in 1979. This was the first comprehensive textbook...
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