Dr. Bob Sproull Sun Fellow, Director Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
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Robert F. Sproull, Vice President and Fellow at Sun Microsystems, founded and led the Massachusetts branch of Sun Microsystems Laboratories for over ten years. He is serving as Interim Director of Sun Microsystems Laboratories.
Since undergraduate days, he has been building hardware and software for computer graphics: clipping hardware, an early device-independent graphics package, page description languages, laser printing software, and window systems. He has also been involved in VLSI design, especially of asynchronous circuits and systems. Before joining Sun in 1990, he was a principal with Sutherland, Sproull & Associates, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He is a coauthor with William Newman of the early text, "Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics." He is an author of the recently-published book "Logical Effort," which deals with designing fast CMOS circuits. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has served on the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
Education:
* PhD Computer Science 1977, Stanford University * MS Computer Science 1970, Stanford University * BA Physics 1968, Harvard College
