William James Kent (born February 10, 1960) is an American research scientist and computer programmer. He has been a contributor to genome database projects.
Kent was born in Hawaii and grew up in San Francisco, California, United States.
Kent founded and ran a software company. One of his products was Cyber Paint for the Atari ST. Cyber Paint was a 2D animation program that brought together a wide variety of animation and paint functionality and...
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William James Kent (born February 10, 1960) is an American research scientist and computer programmer. He has been a contributor to genome database projects.
Kent was born in Hawaii and grew up in San Francisco, California, United States.
Kent founded and ran a software company. One of his products was Cyber Paint for the Atari ST. Cyber Paint was a 2D animation program that brought together a wide variety of animation and paint functionality and the delta-compressed animation format developed for CAD-3D. The user could move freely between animation frames and paint arbitrarily, or utilize various animation tools for automatic tweening movement across frames. Cyber Paint was one of the first, if not the first, consumer program that enabled the user to paint across time in a compressed digital video format.
While working on his PhD in Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Kent in May 2000, wrote a program using the GigAssembler algorithm that allowed the publicly funded...
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