Ken Knowlton | |
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 Knowlton in 2007 | |
| Born | Kenneth Charles Knowlton June 6, 1931 Springville, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 16, 2022 (aged 91) Sarasota, Florida, U.S. |
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| Children | 5 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Cornell University (BS, MS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Victor Yngve |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Engineering Art |
| Sub-discipline | Computer engineering Computer graphics |
Kenneth Charles Knowlton (June 6, 1931 – June 16, 2022) was an American computer graphics pioneer, artist, mosaicist and portraitist. In 1963, while working at Bell Labs, he developed the BEFLIX programming language for creating bitmap computer-produced movies. In 1966, also at Bell Labs, he and Leon Harmon created the computer artwork Computer Nude (Studies in Perception I).