Pat Hanrahan
{{short description|American computer graphics researcher}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Pat Hanrahan
| image = Pat Hanrahan Tableau Customer Conference 2009.jpg
| caption = Hanrahan in 2009
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|5|8}}
| birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
| fields = Computer graphics
| workplaces = New York Institute of Technology
Stanford University
Princeton University
Pixar
| education = University of Wisconsin, Madison (BS, MS, PhD)
| doctoral_advisor = Antony Stretton
| doctoral_students = Maneesh Agrawala, Ren Ng, Matt Pharr, Tamara Munzner, Peter Schröder
}}
Patrick M. Hanrahan (born May 8, 1955){{cite web | title=Pat Hanrahan | website=A.M. Turing Award Laureate | year=2019 | url=https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/hanrahan_4652251.cfm | access-date=2024-02-15}} is an American computer graphics researcher, the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University.
His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing units, as well as scientific illustration and visualization.{{Cite journal |title= A Conversation with Kurt Akeley and Pat Hanrahan|journal=ACM Queue|volume=6|issue=2|date=April 28, 2008|url= http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1365496}} He has received numerous awards, including the 2019 Turing Award.
Education and academic work
Hanrahan grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and graduated with a B.S. in nuclear engineering in 1977,{{Cite web|url=https://www.engr.wisc.edu/2012-distinguished-achievement-award-patrick-hanrahan/|title=2012 Distinguished achievement award: Patrick Hanrahan|date=May 23, 2012|website=College of Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison|language=en-US|access-date=March 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318212155/https://www.engr.wisc.edu/2012-distinguished-achievement-award-patrick-hanrahan/|archive-date=March 18, 2020|url-status=dead}} continued his education there, and as a graduate student taught a new computer science course in graphics in 1981. One of his first students was an art graduate student, Donna Cox, now known for her art and scientific visualizations.{{Cite web|url=https://www.awn.com/animationworld/survey-siggraph-women-todays-role-women-digital-media-visual-effects-computer|title=A Survey of SIGGRAPH Women: Today's Role for Women in Digital Media, Visual Effects, Computer Graphics and Animation|website=Animation World Network|language=en|access-date=March 19, 2020}} In the 1980s he went to work at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Laboratory and at Digital Equipment Corporation under Edwin Catmull. He returned to U.W. Madison and completed his Ph.D. in biophysics in 1985.{{Cite book |chapter= Creating volume models from edge-vertex graphs |author= Patrick M. Hanrahan |title= Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '82 |publisher= ACM |pages= 77–84 |date= July 26, 1982 |doi= 10.1145/800064.801265 |isbn= 978-0-89791-076-7 |s2cid= 7054703 }}{{Cite web |title= Almost Famous: Pat Hanrahan of Tableau |author= Drake Martinet |work= All Things Digital |date= February 26, 2010 |url= http://allthingsd.com/20100226/almost-famous-pat-hanrahan-of-tableau/ |access-date= November 23, 2016 }}
Career
As a founding employee at Pixar Animation Studios, from 1986 to 1989 Hanrahan was part of the design of the RenderMan Interface Specification and the RenderMan Shading Language.{{Cite book |chapter= A brief introduction to RenderMan |publisher= ACM |pages= 2 |date= July 30, 2006 |author= Saty Raghavachary |title= ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Courses on - SIGGRAPH '06 |url= http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1185817 |doi= 10.1145/1185657.1185817 |isbn= 978-1-59593-364-5 |s2cid= 34496605 }}{{Cite journal |title= A language for shading and lighting calculations |author1=Pat Hanrahan |author2=Jim Lawson |journal=ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages= 289–298 |date= August 4, 1990 |doi= 10.1145/97880.97911 |citeseerx=10.1.1.210.5592 }}
He was credited in Pixar productions including The Magic Egg (1984), Tin Toy (1988) and Toy Story (1995).{{IMDb name|0360561}}
In 1989 Hanrahan joined the faculty of Princeton University. In 1995 he moved to Stanford University. In 2003 Hanrahan co-founded Tableau Software{{cite web|website=fortune.com|url=http://fortune.com/2011/11/15/how-tableau-software-makes-business-data-beautiful/|title=How Tableau Software makes business data beautiful|access-date=December 7, 2019|date=November 5, 2011|first1=Richard|last1=Nieva}} and remains its chief scientist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tableau.com/about/leadership|title=Leadership|website=Tableau Software}}{{Cite web |title= Form D: Notice of Sale of Securities |publisher= SEC |date= February 7, 2003 |url= https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/vprr/0300/03005660.pdf |access-date= November 23, 2016 }} In February 2005 Stanford University was named the first regional visualization and analytics center for the United States Department of Homeland Security, focused on problems in information visualization and visual analytics.{{cite web |url= http://nvac.pnl.gov/stanford_press.stm |title= Stanford selected as first regional center for DHS' national visual analytics work |work= Press release |date= February 7, 2005 |url-status= dead |archive-date= April 7, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060407031639/http://nvac.pnl.gov/stanford_press.stm |access-date= November 23, 2016 }}{{cite web|url=http://psychcentral.com/news/archives/2006-04/uonc-cvc042406.html|title=Charlotte Visualization Center celebrates opening with Visionary Symposium|access-date=August 24, 2008|archive-date=November 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124094819/http://psychcentral.com/news/archives/2006-04/uonc-cvc042406.html|url-status=dead}} In 2011 Intel Research announced funding for a center for visual computing, co-led by Hanrahan and Jim Hurley of Intel.{{Cite news |work= Press release |date= May 31, 2011 |title= New Intel Center Driving the Future of Visual Computing |publisher= Intel |url= https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/new-intel-center-driving-the-future-of-visual-computing |access-date= November 23, 2016 }}
He was the doctoral advisor of Peter Schröder and Tamara Munzner.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/cv/cv.long.pdf |title=Curriculum vitae |access-date=2021-05-12}}
Awards
Hanrahan received three Academy Awards for his work in rendering and computer graphics research. In 1993 Hanrahan and other Pixar founding employees were awarded a scientific and engineering award for RenderMan. In 2004 he shared a technical achievement award with Stephen R. Marschner and Henrik Wann Jensen, for research in simulating subsurface scattering of light in translucent materials.{{Cite book |chapter= A practical model for subsurface light transport |last1=Jensen |first1=Henrik Wann |last2=Marschner |first2=Stephen R. |last3=Levoy |first3=Marc |last4=Hanrahan |first4=Pat |title=Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques |pages= [https://archive.org/details/siggraph2001conf00fium/page/511 511–518] |doi= 10.1145/383259.383319 |year= 2001 |isbn= 978-1-58113-374-5 |citeseerx= 10.1.1.503.7787 |s2cid= 11408331 |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/siggraph2001conf00fium/page/511 }}
In 2014 he shared a technical achievement award with Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys, for their formalization and reference implementation of the concepts behind physically based rendering, as shared in their book Physically Based Rendering.{{cite web |work= Press release |url= http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2014/20140108.html |title= Technical Achievements To Be Honored With 2014 Academy Awards |date= January 8, 2014 |url-status= dead |archive-date= January 11, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140111001424/http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2014/20140108.html |access-date= November 23, 2016 }}
Hanrahan received the 2003 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, for "leadership in rendering algorithms, graphics architectures and systems, and new visualization methods for computer graphics", and the 1993 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award.{{Cite web|url=https://www.siggraph.org/about/awards/2003-coons-award/|title=2003 Steven A. Coons Award: Pat Hanrahan|website=ACM SIGGRAPH|language=en-US|access-date=March 18, 2020}} He was inducted into the 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Inaugural Class.{{Cite web|url=https://www.siggraph.org/about/awards/acm-siggraph-academy/|title=ACM SIGGRAPH Academy|website=ACM SIGGRAPH|date=May 6, 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=March 18, 2020}}
He received the 2006 Career Award for Visualization Research from the IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics (VGTC) at the IEEE Visualization Conference,{{cite web |title=The 2006 Visualization Career Award |url=http://vgtc.org/attachments/awards/vis_career06.pdf |publisher=IEEE Computer Society VGTC |access-date=21 March 2020}}{{Cite journal|date=2007|title=IEEE Visualization Conference and IEEE Information Visualization Conference Proceedings 2007 pre-pages|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4376128|journal=IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics|volume=13|issue=6|pages=ii-xxvii|doi=10.1109/TVCG.2007.70564|issn=2160-9306|url-access=subscription}}
He became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1999,{{Cite web |title= Dr. Patrick M. Hanrahan |publisher= National Academy of Engineering |work= Member Directory |url= https://www.nae.edu/30245.aspx |access-date= November 23, 2016 }} a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007 and of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2008, and received three university teaching awards at Stanford.{{cite web| url= http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/may9/acad-050907.html |title= Stanford scholars elected to American arts, sciences academy |date= May 4, 2007 |work= Stanford Report |access-date= November 23, 2016 }}
Hanrahan shared the 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Catmull for their pioneering efforts on computer-generated imagery.{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/technology/pixar-pioneers-win-1-million-turing-award.html | title = Pixar Pioneers Win $1 Million Turing Award | first = Cade | last = Metz | date = March 18, 2020 | access-date = March 18, 2020 | work = The New York Times }}{{Cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/about/2019-turing|title=2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureates|website=awards.acm.org|language=en|access-date=2020-03-20}}
Quotes
- Curiosity and passion determine success
References
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External links
- [http://graphics.stanford.edu/~hanrahan/ Pat Hanrahan's academic home page]
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- {{YouTube|MdPXBnJWai8|2019 AM Turing Award Recipients Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Turing Lectures}}
- {{YouTube|7d9juPsv1QU|2013 Sci-Tech Awards: Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys and Pat Hanrahan}}
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Category:Computer graphics researchers
Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Category:2008 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Category:Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
Category:Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering faculty
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni
Category:New York Institute of Technology faculty
Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences