Evans & Sutherland (NASDAQ: ESCC) is a computer firm involved in the computer graphics field. Their products are used primarily by the military and large industrial firms for training and simulation, and in digital projection environments like planetariums.
The company was founded in 1968 by David Evans and Ivan Sutherland, professors in the Computer Science Department at the University of Utah.
The two professors were pioneers in computer graphi...
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Evans & Sutherland (NASDAQ: ESCC) is a computer firm involved in the computer graphics field. Their products are used primarily by the military and large industrial firms for training and simulation, and in digital projection environments like planetariums.
The company was founded in 1968 by David Evans and Ivan Sutherland, professors in the Computer Science Department at the University of Utah.
The two professors were pioneers in computer graphics technology. They formed the company to produce hardware to run the systems being developed in the University, working from an abandoned barracks on the university grounds. The company was later housed in the University of Utah Research Park. Most of the employees were active or former students, and included Jim Clark, who started Silicon Graphics, Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar, and John Warnock of Adobe.
In the 1970s they formed a partnership with Rediffusion Simulation, a UK-based flight simulator company, to design and build digital...
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