Pixar CG pioneers Pat Hanrahan and Edwin Catmull share $1M Turing Award

ronjor · Mar 18, 2020

Devin Coldewey@techcrunch March 18, 2020

The 2019 Turing Award, one of the highest honors in computing, was today awarded to Pat Hanrahan and Ed Catmull, founding members of Pixar who helped shape the future of computer graphics. The two will share a $1M prize and of course the satisfaction of receiving this prestigious award for doing something they clearly love.
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This year, two of the men behind those advancements, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, are the recipients of the Turing Award. The award recognises "lasting and major" contributions to the field of computing and is considered to be the "Nobel Prize" of computer science.
The award is given by the Association for Computing Machinery and comes with a $1m (£800,000) cash prize split between the winners.

The pair were notified of their win in early March.
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The official ceremony to present the Turing Award is scheduled for June 2020.
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