Martin Newell (computer scientist)
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox scientist Martin Edward Newell is a British-born computer scientist specializing in computer graphics. He is the creator of the Utah teapot, one of the benchmark models in 3D rendering.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Career
Before immigrating to the US, he worked at what was then the Computer-Aided Design Centre (CADCentre) in Cambridge, UK,<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> along with his brother Dick Newell (who went on to co-found two of the most important UK graphics software companies – Cambridge Interactive Systems (CIS) in 1977 and Smallworld in 1987). At CADCentre, the two Newells and Tom Sancha developed Newell's algorithm, a technique for eliminating cyclic dependencies when ordering polygons to be drawn by a computer graphics system.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="microsoft">Template:AcademicSearch</ref>
Newell developed the Utah teapot while working on a Ph.D. at the University of Utah,<ref name="teapot"/><ref name="newellphd">Template:Cite thesis</ref> where he also helped develop a version of the painter's algorithm for rendering. He graduated in 1975, and was on the Utah faculty from 1977 to 1979.<ref name="uusc">History of the University of Utah School of Computing, retrieved 2010-01-26.</ref> Later he worked at Xerox PARC, where he worked on JaM, a predecessor of PostScript. JaM stood for "John and Martin" – the John was John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Systems.<ref>Adobe Co-founder John Warnock on the Competitive Advantages of Aesthetics and the 'Right' Technology, Knowledge@Wharton, The Wharton School, 20 January 2010.</ref>
Newell departed Xerox PARC to join CADLINC Inc.,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> a factory automation startup, as VP of Advanced Development. There he led the development of a variety of CAD/CAM software applications, such as CimCAD (a 3-D drafting program) <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Intelligent Documentation <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> (an early electronic document editor integrating text, graphics, and information from relational databases).
He departed CADLINC to found the computer-aided design software company Ashlar in 1988.<ref name="uusc"/> In 2007, Newell was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to computer-graphics modeling, rendering, and printing.<ref name="nae">Dr. Martin E. Newell in the NAE Members Directory, retrieved 2014-06-27.</ref> He recentlyTemplate:When retired as an Adobe Fellow at Adobe Systems.Template:Citation needed