The Great Digital Convergence and the Arrival of Digital Light, or What EE Has to Do with the Movies- Canceled

I spent the last 10 years writing up the several histories, in one book, that led to computer graphics--more generally to Digital Light, the class of all pictures made of pixels, and more specifically to the first digital movies, the flagships. And was I ever surprised!  These are the stories of Fourier (did you know he almost lost his head to the guillotine?), the Sampling Theorem (who proved it first? Not Shannon), computation (who invented the stored-program computer?), movies (they weren't created by Edison, Muybridge, or the Lumiere brothers), and of course Digital Light (where and when were the first pixels? The first color world is increasingly base on pixels?). I thought I knew all these but I didn't. And what's a pixel anyway? (It's not a little square and never has been). Come hear a new take on our visible world and praise Moore's Law with me.

Speaker: Alvy Ray Smith co- founded Pixar and Altamira Software. He was the first Director of Computer Graphics at Lucasfilm and the First Graphics Fellow at Microsoft. He has received two technical Academy Awards for his contributions to digital movie-making technology.

Editor's Note: This event was canceled due to issues with Zoom.  It will be rescheduled.