Brian Paul

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Brian Paul is a computer programmer who wrote and continues to maintain the source code for the Open Source Mesa graphics library. Paul began programming initial source code in August 1993.

Education

Brian obtained his bachelor's degree at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 1990. He worked on the SSEC Visualization Project while obtaining his master's degree at the University of Wisconsin.

Career

Paul continued working on the SSEC project after graduation. He has also worked for Silicon Graphics, Avid Technology, and Precision Insight (bought out by VA Linix Systems).

Over his career, Brian has also contributed or written: Chromium, Direct Rendering Infrastructure in XFree86, Blockbuster (a high-res movie player for scientific visualization applications), Glean (OpenGL validation), Togl (an OpenGL widget for Tcl/Tk), Vis5D visualization system, TR (OpenGL tile rendering library), V-Blocks (virtual building blocks), and Avid Marquee (video animation, 3D text, graphics).

In 2000, Brian won the third FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software. [link]

In November 2001, he co-founded Tungsten Graphics.

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