James Henry Clark (born March 23, 1944) is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist from Plainview, Texas, who founded several prominent Silicon Valley technology companies including Silicon Graphics, Netscape, myCFO and Healtheon. His research focused on computer graphics, particularly systems for rapid rendering of three dimensional images. He earned a PhD in computer science from the University of Utah in 1974 under doctoral advisor Ivan Sutherland, after bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from the University of New Orleans, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 for the development of computer graphics and technical leadership in the computer industry.
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How did Jim Clark come to found Netscape?
He joined Marc Andreessen in April 1994 to found Mosaic Communications Corporation.
Marc Andreessen was contacted by Jim Clark, the founder and former president of Silicon Graphics. Clark was searching for an exciting new venture, and he found it with Andreessen. In April 1994 the two founded Mosaic Communications Corporation, which was later renamed Netscape Communications.
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Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clark_(computer_scientist): infobox "Doctoral advisor: Ivan Sutherland"; Clark earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Utah in 1974, where Sutherland led the graphics program.
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Invented: Catmull-Clark Subdivision Algorithm, Lead
It was devised by Edwin Catmull and Jim Clark in 1978 as a generalization of bi-cubic uniform B-spline surfaces to arbitrary topology.
Credited: Catmull-Clark Subdivision Algorithm, Lead
It was devised by Edwin Catmull and Jim Clark in 1978 as a generalization of bi-cubic uniform B-spline surfaces to arbitrary topology.
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