David C. Evans

David C. Evans
Born
David Cannon Evans

(1924-02-24)February 24, 1924
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
DiedOctober 3, 1998(1998-10-03) (aged 74)
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Alma materUniversity of Utah
Known forComputer graphics
SpouseBeverly Joy Frewin Evans
Children10, including David F. Evans
AwardsIEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1986)[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
University of Utah
Evans & Sutherland
Thesis Design and Operation of Two Electronic Computing Devices  (1953)
Doctoral studentsAlan Kay

David Cannon Evans (February 24, 1924 – October 3, 1998) was the founder of the computer science department at the University of Utah and co-founder (with Ivan Sutherland) of Evans & Sutherland, a pioneering firm in computer graphics hardware.[2]

  1. ^ "IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 24, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  2. ^ David C. Evans Biography and Photograph Collection at the University of Utah Archived 2010-06-13 at the Wayback Machine

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