The School of Computing (SoC) has a long tradition of training some of the best and brightest Computer Science Bachelors Degree recipients in the nation.
The School of Computing was originally founded as the Computer Science Department at the University of Utah in 1965 by three electrical engineering faculty members (In 2000, the department officially became the School of Computing). In 1985, the department reached 10 full-time faculty members. By 1996, it had doubled to 20. Today the School of Computing boasts over 50 faculty members with more than 700 CS undergraduate students and 180 CE undergrads.
“Almost every influential person in the modern computer-graphics community either passed through the University of Utah or came into contact with it in some way.”
-The Algorithmic Image: Graphic Visions of the Computer Age by Robert Rivlin
The School of Computing at the University of Utah has a long history of distinguished faculty and alumni who have made substantial contributions to research and industry. SoC Ph.D. graduate John Warnock (1969) developed the Warnock recursive subdivision algorithm for hidden surface elimination, and later founded Adobe Systems, which developed the Postscript language for desktop publishing. Alan Ashton, 1970 Ph.D. graduate went on to teach at Brigham Young University and founded WordPerfect. Computer animation pioneer Ed Catmull, received both his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Utah. Today he is the co-founder and president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios. He received a technical Academy Award in 1996 from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for “pioneering inventions in Digital Image Compositing.”
