Ed Catmull

Ed Catmull is co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, and before his retirement in 2019 was president of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation. He has been honoured with five Academy Awards, including the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for lifetime achievement in the field of computer graphics. In 2019, he received a Turing Award-often called the Nobel Prize of computing-for his pioneering work on computer-generated imagery. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah. He lives...See more

Ed Catmull is co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, and before his retirement in 2019 was president of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation. He has been honoured with five Academy Awards, including the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for lifetime achievement in the field of computer graphics. In 2019, he received a Turing Award-often called the Nobel Prize of computing-for his pioneering work on computer-generated imagery. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Susan. www.CreativityIncBook.com @DisneyPixar See less