Stanford computer scientist and engineer Patrick M. ’Pat’ Hanrahan is co-recipient of the 2019 Turing Award. (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead)
Stanford computer scientist and engineer Patrick M. 'Pat' Hanrahan is co-recipient of the 2019 Turing Award. (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead) - Hanrahan splits the prize with one-time mentor and Pixar colleague Ed Catmull. The pair's work continues to transform film, video games, virtual reality and more. In recognition of his "revolutionary impact" on computer-generated animation, Stanford computer scientist and engineer Patrick M. "Pat" Hanrahan will share the 2019 Turing Award from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) - often described as the "Nobel Prize" of computing. "The announcement came totally out of the blue and I am very proud to accept the Turing Award. It is a great honor," said Hanrahan, who is the Canon Professor in the School of Engineering and a professor of computer science and of electrical engineering at Stanford University. "It is a great honor, but I must give credit to a generation of computer graphics researchers and practitioners whose work and ideas influenced me over the years." Hanrahan splits the award and its $1 million prize with one-time mentor and colleague Edward "Ed" Catmull, former president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios.
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