James H. Clark

Clark was born in Plainview, Texas, on March 23, 1944. He dropped out of high school at 16 and spent four years in the US Navy, where he was introduced to electronics. Clark began taking night courses at Tulane University's University College where, despite his lack of a high school diploma, he was able to earn enough credits to be admitted to the University of New Orleans.{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}} There, Clark earned his bachelor's and a master's degrees in physics, followed by a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah in 1974.{{Cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/people/james-clark-9542204|title=James Clark - Computer Programmer - Biography|date=2019-03-31|access-date=2019-08-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331164505/https://www.biography.com/people/james-clark-9542204|archive-date=March 31, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://engineering.stanford.edu/about/heroes/james-clark|title=James H. Clark|website=engineering.stanford.edu|date=May 3, 2016|access-date=May 28, 2016|archive-date=November 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126133650/https://engineering.stanford.edu/about/heroes/james-clark|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/james-clark/|title=James Clark|website=Forbes|access-date=May 28, 2016|archive-date=February 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208013550/https://www.forbes.com/profile/james-clark/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://news.tulane.edu/pr/netscape-co-founder-saints-hero-grammy-winner-healthcare-advocate-honored-tulane-commencement|title=Netscape co-founder, Saints hero, Grammy winner, healthcare advocate to be honored at Tulane commencement|website=Tulane News|date=May 7, 2018|language=en|access-date=2019-08-16|archive-date=August 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816133057/https://news.tulane.edu/pr/netscape-co-founder-saints-hero-grammy-winner-healthcare-advocate-honored-tulane-commencement|url-status=live}}

After completing his doctorate, Clark worked at the New York Institute of Technology's Computer Graphics Lab. He was fired from that position due to insubordination.{{Cite book |last=Payment |first=Simone |title=Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark: the founders of Netscape |date=2007 |publisher=Rosen |isbn=978-1-4042-0719-6 |edition= |series=Internet career biographies |location=New York, NY}} He served as an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974-1978) before moving to Stanford University as an associate professor of electrical engineering (1979-1982). Clark's research work concerned geometry pipelines, specialized software or hardware that accelerates the display of three dimensional images. The peak of his group's advancements was the Geometry Engine, an early hardware accelerator for rendering computer images based on geometric models which he developed in 1979 with his students at Stanford.

In 1982, Clark along with several Stanford graduate students founded Silicon Graphics (SGI).{{cite book |first=Jonathan |last=Bowen |author-link=Jonathan Bowen |chapter=Silicon Graphics, Inc. |editor-first=Raúl |editor-last=Rojas |title=Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |date=2001 |isbn=978-1579582357 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco0000unse_a6j4/page/709 709–710] |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco0000unse_a6j4/page/709}} The earliest Silicon Graphics graphical workstations were mainly terminals, but they were soon followed by stand-alone graphical Unix workstations with very fast graphics rendering hardware. In the mid-1980s, Silicon Graphics began to use the MIPS CPU as the foundation of their newest workstations, replacing the Motorola 68000.

By 1991, Silicon Graphics had become the world leader in the production of Hollywood movie visual effects and 3-D imaging. Silicon Graphics focused on the high-end market where they could charge a premium for their special hardware and graphics software.{{cite journal|last1=Rowe|first1=Robin|title=Linux Invades Hollywood|journal=CGW|date=September 2001|volume=24|issue=9|url=http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2001/Volume-24-Issue-9-September-2001-/Linux-Invades-Hollywood.aspx|access-date=December 17, 2017|publisher=Computer Graphics World|quote=SGI servers and workstations dominated the movie industry because they were good at two things: crunching numbers (for rendering animation), and displaying high-resolution graphics images quickly on the screen.}}

Clark had differences of opinion with Silicon Graphics management regarding the future direction of the company,{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} and departed in late January 1994.{{cite web|url=http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199401/msg00098.html |title=Silicon Graphics Announces Departure of Founder and Chairman Jim Clark |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090927050857/http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199401/msg00098.html |archive-date=September 27, 2009}}

In February 1994, Clark sought out Marc Andreessen who had led the development of Mosaic, the first widely distributed and easy-to-use software for browsing the World Wide Web, while employed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/410278/Netscape-Communications-Corp/92979/Founding-as-Mosaic-Communications?anchor=ref663699 Netscape Communications Corp.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308023119/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/410278/Netscape-Communications-Corp/92979/Founding-as-Mosaic-Communications?anchor=ref663699 |date=March 8, 2020 }}. Netscape, accessed December 30, 2010. Clark and Andreessen founded Netscape, and developed the Netscape Navigator web browser. The founding of Netscape and its IPO in August 1995 launched the Internet boom on Wall Street during the mid-to-late 1990s. Clark's initial investment in Netscape was $4 million in 1994; he exited with $1.2 billion when Netscape was acquired by AOL in 1999.{{cite video|people=Clark, James|title=Download: The True Story of the Internet "Browser Wars"|medium=Documentary|publisher=The Discovery Channel|date=2008}}

In 1995, Clark became interested in streamlining the paperwork associated with the health-care industry. The resulting start-up, Healtheon, was founded in early 1996 with backing from Kleiner Perkins and New Enterprise Associates.{{cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Another-Startup-by-Jim-Clark-New-online-venture-2977549.php |title=Another Startup by Jim Clark / New online venture focuses on health care |first=Jon |last=Swartz |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=June 18, 1996}} Although Clark's original idea of eliminating the paperwork and bureaucracy associated with medical care was ambitious, it did lead to successes in administrative streamlining of medical records technology. However, an Atlanta, Georgia startup company, WebMD originally focused on medical content was also making similar in-roads. Knowing WebMD had financial backing from Microsoft, Clark decided to merge Healtheon with the original WebMD to form the WebMD Corporation (NASDAQ: WBMD). WebMD is a leader in health information on the Internet.{{cite web |url=https://www.insightec.com/us/whats-new/blogs/2019/webmd-or-the-real-md#:~:text=With%2075%20million%20visitors%20per,professionals,%20employers%20and%20health%20plans. |title=WEBMD OR THE REAL MD? |access-date=2020-09-08 |website=www.insightec.com}}

In 1999, Clark launched myCFO, a company formed to help wealthy Silicon Valley individuals manage their fortunes. In late 2002, while Clark served on the board of directors, most of myCFO's operations were sold to Harris Bank and now operate as Harris myCFO.

Clark was chairman and financial backer of network-security startup Neoteris, founded in 2000, which was acquired by NetScreen in 2003 and subsequently by Juniper Networks.

Clark was a founding director and investor in the biotechnology company DNA Sciences, founded in 1998 to unravel the genetics of common disease using volunteers recruited from the Internet launched August 1, 2000 (see The New York Times). In 2003, the company was acquired by Genaissance Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Clark was the subject of the 1999 bestseller The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by U.S. author Michael Lewis.

Clark was a notable investor in Kibu.com, an Internet website for teens, which received approximately $22 million in funding.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/03/business/technology-briefing-internet-girls-site-closing.html |title=Girls site closing |last=Flynn |first=Laurie J. |date=October 3, 2000 |work=New York Times |access-date=January 19, 2017}} The website shut down in 2000, returning its remaining capital to investors.

Clark coproduced the 2009 movie The Cove. His funding made possible the purchase and covert installation of some high-tech camera and sound-recording equipment required to capture the film's climactic dolphin slaughter.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}} The film addresses the problem of whale and dolphin killing in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan.

Clark sits on the board and is one of the primary investors in the mobile technology company Ibotta.{{cite web |url=http://www.builtincolorado.com/blog/20-million-round-ibotta-will-double-employee-base |title=With $20 million round, Ibotta will double employee base |website=Built In Colorado |language=en |access-date=January 24, 2017}} Ibotta became a publicly traded company in April 2024.{{Cite web |last=Fox |first=Matthew |title=Ibotta's IPO just minted more than 150 millionaires, many in Denver, CEO says |url=https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ibotta-stock-price-ipo-mint-hundreds-millionaires-denver-colorado-ceo-2024-4 |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=Markets Insider |language=en-US}}

In 2017, Clark announced the launch of CommandScape, a cyber secure building management and automation platform.{{cite news |url=https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/22/netscapes-jim-clark-launches-commandscape-a-building-management-system-for-commercial-and-premium-properties/ |title=Netscape's Jim Clark launches CommandScape, a building management system for commercial and premium properties |date=August 22, 2017 |work=VentureBeat |access-date=March 6, 2018 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307023244/https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/22/netscapes-jim-clark-launches-commandscape-a-building-management-system-for-commercial-and-premium-properties/ |url-status=live }}

In 2020, Clark announced the $30M A round of funding for Beyond Identity, with a product that is a phone-resident personal certificate-based authentication and authorization solution that eliminates all passwords.{{Cite news |last=Townsend |first=Kevin |date=April 14, 2020 |title=Silicon Valley Legends Launch Beyond Identity in Quest to Eliminate Passwords |url=https://www.securityweek.com/silicon-valley-legends-launch-beyond-identity-quest-eliminate-passwords/ |access-date=May 7, 2024 |work=SecurityWeek}}

Clark received the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 1984. In 1996, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.{{cite web |title=Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org |publisher=American Academy of Achievement |url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#business |access-date=September 9, 2020 |archive-date=December 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161215023909/https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#business |url-status=live }} He was a recipient of the 1997 Kilby International Awards, which honored him for his computer graphics vision and for enabling networked information exchange.{{cite web |url=http://www.kilby.org/kl_past_laureates.html |title=The 1997 Kilby Laureates |work=The Kilby International Awards |access-date=December 30, 2010 |archive-date=May 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514102456/http://www.kilby.org/kl_past_laureates.html |url-status=live }}

In 1988, Clark was an Award Recipient of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Northern California Region.{{cite web |url=http://eoyhof.ey.com/ |title=Hall of Fame - EY Entrepreneur Of The Year |website=eoyhof.ey.com |language=en |access-date=January 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614150043/http://eoyhof.ey.com/ |archive-date=June 14, 2006 |url-status=dead}}

Clark was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science (ScD) from the University of East Anglia in 1998.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}

Clark has been married four times and has four children. The divorce from his third wife of 15 years, Nancy Rutter, a Forbes journalist, is reported to have cost him $125 million in cash and assets in the settlement. Soon afterwards he began dating Australian model Kristy Hinze, 35 years his junior. Hinze became his fourth wife when they married in the British Virgin Islands on March 22, 2009.{{cite news |author=Stefanie Cohen |date=March 21, 2009 |title=Jim Clark to wed Kristy Hinze |url=https://nypost.com/2009/03/21/jim-clark-to-wed-kristy-hinze/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013002455/http://nypost.com/2009/03/21/jim-clark-to-wed-kristy-hinze/ |archive-date=13 October 2013 |newspaper=New York Post}} She gave birth to a daughter, Dylan Vivienne in September 2011, and later, Harper Hazelle, in August 2013. In 2000, his daughter by a previous marriage, Kathy, married Chad Hurley, a co-founder of YouTube,Cloud, John. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20061219091614/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570721,00.html The YouTube Gurus]." Time, December 16, 2006. they were divorced in 2012.{{Cite web|title=KATHY HURLEY AND CHAD HURLEY|url=https://unicourt.com/case/ca-sm-kathy-hurley-and-chad-hurley-251424|access-date=2021-12-14|website=UniCourt|language=en|archive-date=December 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206052055/https://unicourt.com/case/ca-sm-kathy-hurley-and-chad-hurley-251424|url-status=live}}

In 2022 he made the largest residential real estate sale in Florida history, selling a 22-acre property in Manalapan, Florida to Larry Ellison for approximately $175 million. Clark had previously acquired the property in 2021 from the Ziff publishing family for $94 million.{{cite web | url=https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/story/business/real-estate/2022/06/15/billionaire-sell-estate-near-palm-beach-175-m-report/7641270001/ | title=Billionaire Clark expected to sell estate near Palm Beach for about $175 million: Report }}

Clark is an enthusiastic yachtsman but cannot sail in rough ocean races such as the Sydney-Hobart due to an arthritic condition in his ankles{{cite web |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/sydney-hobart/sydney-to-hobart-couple-split-over-comanche-replay/news-story/cad1094083d9472083c57efcbdcd900e |title=She says, he says: couple split overs Sydney-Hobart replay |work=The Australian |date=December 30, 2015}} and prefers one-day regattas on the smoother waters of the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and off Newport, Rhode Island. In 2012, however, he commented that "after 28 years of owning boats, I'm over it."{{cite web |last=Mac |first=Ryan |title=Billionaire Jim Clark Seeks More Than $100 Million For Two Superyachts |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/05/15/billionaire-jim-clark-seeks-more-than-100-million-for-two-superyachts/ |access-date=2020-09-03 |website=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=January 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109182053/https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/05/15/billionaire-jim-clark-seeks-more-than-100-million-for-two-superyachts/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Royal Huisman sailing superyacht Hyperion for sale {{!}} Boat International |url=https://www.boatinternational.com/yacht-market-intelligence/brokerage-sales-news/royal-huisman-sailing-superyacht-hyperion-for-sale--34919 |access-date=2020-09-03 |website=www.boatinternational.com |language=en |archive-date=January 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109181654/https://www.boatinternational.com/yacht-market-intelligence/brokerage-sales-news/royal-huisman-sailing-superyacht-hyperion-for-sale--34919 |url-status=live }}

He is the past owner of two important sailing yachts:

• Hyperion, the world's largest sloop when she was launched in 1998 at {{convert|47.5|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} in length. She was designed by Germán Frers and built by Royal Huisman. With an air draught of {{convert|59|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}, she briefly featured the world's longest carbon fiber spar. Clark developed her own chartplotter and SCADA system to control vessel operation remotely, as well as automate sailing operation and optimize sailing performance using a large bank of sensors and SGI processors. Clark sold Hyperion in 2004.
• Comanche, a {{convert|30.48|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} carbonfiber maxi yacht designed by VPLP and built by Hodgdon Shipbuilding{{cite web|url=http://www.boatinternational.com/luxury-yacht-life/owners-experiences/built-to-win-on-board-sailing-yacht-comanche-with-jim-clark--24749|title=Built to win: On board sailing yacht Comanche with Jim Clark|website=Boat International}} for line honours victories in offshore races. She lost line honours to Wild Oats XI in the 2014 Sydney-Hobart race but returned and won in 2015. She also won line honours in the 2015 Transatlantic race in which she set a new 24-hour speed record for monohulls. In 2016 with Skipper Ken Read and Stan Honey navigating, she set the Newport to Bermuda Race record, shaving five hours off the previous fastest time recorded in the 635 mile race.{{cite web |url=http://bermudarace.com/comanche-chops-hours-newport-bermuda-line-honours-record/ |title=Comanche chops hours from Newport Bermuda line honours record |date=June 19, 2016 |access-date=July 7, 2017 |archive-date=October 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016014348/http://bermudarace.com/comanche-chops-hours-newport-bermuda-line-honours-record/ |url-status=live }} In December 2017, Comanche was sold to Australian Jim Cooney.{{cite web |title=Comanche finds new owner Down Under |url=http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2017/12/14/comanche-finds-new-owner/ |publisher=Scuttlebutt Sailing News |date=December 14, 2017 |access-date=January 9, 2018 |archive-date=January 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106205145/http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2017/12/14/comanche-finds-new-owner/ |url-status=live }}

He remains the current owner of two other large sailing yachts:

• Athena, a {{convert|90|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} three-mast gaff-rigged aluminum schooner built by Royal Huisman. Athena has been listed for sale since July 2012, originally with an asking price of US$95 million, reduced to $59 million as of February 2017.{{cite web |url=https://www.burgessyachts.com/en/news/stunning-90m-sailing-yacht-athena-joins-the-burgess-sales-fleet/ |title=Athena at Burgess |website=www.burgessyachts.com |date=March 2016 |access-date=December 28, 2017}}{{cite web |url=https://www.burgessyachts.com/en/news/usd-10-9-million-price-reduction-on-athena-26599/ |title=Burgess Athena sales |website=www.burgessyachts.com |access-date=December 28, 2017 |archive-date=December 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228172303/https://www.burgessyachts.com/en/news/usd-10-9-million-price-reduction-on-athena-26599/ |url-status=live }}
• Hanuman,{{cite web |url=http://www.superyachttimes.com/superyachttimes/www/editorial/3/article/id/4166 |title=SuperYacht of the week: S/Y Hanuman, recreation of Endeavour II |website=SuperYachtTimes.com |date=March 13, 2010 |access-date=May 9, 2010 |archive-date=March 16, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100316044419/http://www.superyachttimes.com/superyachttimes/www/editorial/3/article/id/4166 |url-status=dead }} a replica of the {{convert|42.1|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} J-Class Endeavour II, built by Royal Huisman.{{cite web |url=http://www.superyachts.com/sail-yacht-4401/hanuman.htm |title=Hanuman Yacht |website=SuperYachtTimes.com |access-date=May 9, 2010 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716164907/http://www.superyachts.com/sail-yacht-4401/hanuman.htm |url-status=dead }} Hanuman has been listed for sale since May 2012 with an asking price of US$14.9 million as of 2021.{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/05/15/billionaire-jim-clark-seeks-more-than-100-million-for-two-superyachts/ |date=May 15, 2012 |title=Billionaire Jim Clark Seeks More Than $100 Million For Two Superyachts |first=Ryan |last=Mac |website=Forbes |access-date=April 24, 2020}}{{cite web |url=http://www.jclassyachts.com/news/hanuman-for-sale |title=Hanuman – For Sale |website=www.jclassyachts.com |publisher=J Class Association |access-date=April 24, 2020 |archive-date=January 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117042843/https://www.jclassyachts.com/news/hanuman-for-sale |url-status=dead }}

Clark is a pilot who enjoys flying helicopters, gliders (built in Germany) and acrobatic aircraft (such as the Extra EA-300).{{cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=Michael |title=The New New Thing |date=2016 |publisher=Hodder |isbn=978-0-340-76699-6 |pages=17–37 |edition=9 |url=https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/michael-lewis/the-new-new-thing/9781444765373/ |access-date=21 January 2021 |archive-date=December 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222214928/https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/michael-lewis/the-new-new-thing/9781444765373/ |url-status=live }}

Clark has contributed to Stanford University, where he was an associate electrical engineering professor.{{cite web |title=Encyclopedia of the Great Plains {{!}} CLARK, JIM (b. 1944) |url=http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.ind.013 |website=plainshumanities.unl.edu |publisher=University of Nebraska at Lincoln |access-date=December 17, 2017 |language=en |date=August 1, 2003 |archive-date=July 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709203749/http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.ind.013 |url-status=live }} In 1999, he pledged $150 million toward construction of the James H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering and related programs for interdisciplinary biomedical research.{{cite web |last1=Bake r|first1=Mitzi |title=Clark Center, 'nucleus for a range of new research' opens |url=https://news.stanford.edu/news/2003/october29/xopening-1029.html |website=news.stanford.edu |publisher=Stanford Report |access-date=December 17, 2017 |date=October 29, 2003|quote=The building's other major donor, previously anonymous, was The Atlantic Philanthropies, which contributed $60 million.}} At the time, it was the largest-ever contribution to Stanford, other than the university's founding grant.{{Cite web |title=Entrepreneur Jim Clark to donate $150 million to Stanford |url=https://news.stanford.edu/pr/99/991027Clark.html |access-date=2021-04-09 |website=news.stanford.edu |archive-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512082026/https://news.stanford.edu/pr/99/991027Clark.html |url-status=dead }} Construction started in 2001 and was completed in the summer of 2003, as part of Stanford's Bio-X program.{{cite web |title=Clark Center {{!}} Welcome to Bio-X |url=https://biox.stanford.edu/about/clark-center |website=biox.stanford.edu |date=December 2, 2013 |access-date=December 17, 2017 |language=en}} In September 2001, Clark rescinded $60 million of his initial pledge, citing anger over President Bush's restrictions on stem cell research.Charles Ornstein.[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-01-me-40970-story.html Donor Stops Big Payment to Stanford] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422163001/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-01-me-40970-story.html |date=April 22, 2023 }}. LA Times, accessed December 29, 2010. In a New York Times opinion piece, Clark said federal funding is essential for research in the United States, and he was not interested in funding research that could be suppressed for political reasons.{{cite news |last=Clark |first=Jim |date=2001-08-31 |title=Opinion {{!}} Squandering Our Technological Future |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/opinion/squandering-our-technological-future.html |access-date=2021-04-09 |issn=0362-4331}} President Barack Obama lifted the restrictions in question in 2009.{{cite web |last=Conger |first=Krista |date=2009-03-11 |title=Stem cell policy may aid state research efforts |url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/march11/med-stem%20cell-031109.html |access-date=2021-04-09 |website=Stanford University |language=en}} In 2013, Clark pledged an additional $60 million to Stanford for interdisciplinary research in the life sciences, technology, and engineering.{{cite web |last1=Stanford |first1=© Stanford University |last2=Notice |first2=California 94305 Copyright Complaints Trademark |date=2013-10-15 |title=Entrepreneur Jim Clark to donate $60 million for interdisciplinary research at Stanford |url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/october/jim-clark-gift-101413.html |access-date=2021-04-09 |website=Stanford University |language=en |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225101519/https://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/october/jim-clark-gift-101413.html |url-status=live }} His commitment was finally completely fulfilled in 2020.{{cite web |last=Sandra Feder |title=New program supports research and discovery in theoretical physics with $10 million gift {{!}} Stanford Humanities and Sciences |url=https://humsci.stanford.edu/feature/new-program-supports-research-and-discovery-theoretical-physics-10-million-gift |access-date=2021-04-09 |website=humsci.stanford.edu |language=en}} Clark has donated an additional $10 million to fund fellowships at the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics.{{cite web |last=Sandra Feder |title=New program supports research and discovery in theoretical physics with $10 million gift {{!}} Stanford Humanities and Sciences |url=https://humsci.stanford.edu/feature/new-program-supports-research-and-discovery-theoretical-physics-10-million-gift |access-date=2021-04-09 |website=humsci.stanford.edu |language=en}}

In 2004, Clark and David Filo of Yahoo! each donated $30 million to Tulane University's School of Engineering for merit-based scholarships to provide education to deserving students regardless of financial situation in the discipline of engineering.{{cite web |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/web-luminaries-hand-60-million-to-tulane/ |title=Web luminaries hand $60 million to Tulane |date=July 30, 2004 |author=Matt Hines |website=CNET |access-date=January 16, 2019 |archive-date=January 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117073051/https://www.cnet.com/news/web-luminaries-hand-60-million-to-tulane/ |url-status=live }}

Clark is a board member for the national council of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and contributes towards the organization.{{cite web |title=Who We Are: National Council] |url=http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/council/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120070303/http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/council/ |archive-date=20 November 2010 |access-date=December 29, 2010 |publisher=National Council of World Wildlife Fund}} The Perlman Music Program has recognized Clark for his continued philanthropic efforts towards their organization and their endowment fund.{{cite web |url=http://www.perlmanmusicprogram.org/support-us/our-supporters/honor-roll-of-donors/ |title=Gifts and Grants |publisher=The Perlman Music Program |access-date=December 29, 2010 |archive-date=December 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224173810/http://www.perlmanmusicprogram.org/support-us/our-supporters/honor-roll-of-donors/ |url-status=dead }}

• Catmull–Clark subdivision surface, a 3D modelling technique Clark invented in collaboration with Edwin Catmull

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• [http://www.salon.com/1999/11/24/clark_2/ "Jim Clark"], Salon.com, November 24, 1999.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/19991012020527/http://businessweek.com/1999/99_39/b3648018.htm "James H. Clark"], Business Week, 1999.

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