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The Origins and Development of Computer GraphicsWednesday 2nd July 2025, 6:30 pm. Speaker: Stephen Marshall Hybrid event - on-line and in-person. Venue: Edinburgh Training & Conference Venue, 16 St Mary’s Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SU Refreshments and networking from 6:00 pm for those attending in person. This event is free of charge and open to all, though registration is required - you may not get past venue security if you do not register in advance. For those wishing to join on-line, the Microsoft Teams link will be provided in the registration acknowledgement. SynopsisComputer graphics are everywhere, from the smartphone in your pocket to tablets, laptop and desktop computers, video games, public information displays, CGI in films – the list is endless. We think of computer graphics technology as originating with the early video games of the 1980s and 1990s, however, its development goes back to the very beginning of electronic computation. In this presentation I will trace the fascinating history of computer graphics from its source in Project Whirlwind at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949 through the developments in timesharing and computer-aided design of the 1960s and ‘70s to the high-quality interactive graphics that give today’s personal computing devices their amazing capabilities. About the speaker
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