Alan W. Paeth

Alan W. Paeth (11 May 1956 - 3 June 2018) was a Canadian computer scientist and author.

Life and education

Alan William Paeth was born on May 11, 1956 in Seattle, Washington. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Caltech and his PhD at the University of Waterloo in 1994.[1] His doctoral advisor was William B. Cowan and his doctoral dissertation was on Linear Models of Reflective Colour.[1]. He married Catherine Anne Person in 1983; she predeceased him in 2008[2].

He died in Kelowna, British Columbia on June 3, 2018.[3]

Career

He was professor of computer science at Okanagan University in British Columbia.[4]

He made major research contributions to computer graphics and has made seminal contributions in the field of Portable Network Graphics including Shear mapping.


Selected publications

His notable books include:[5][6]

  • Graphics Gems V
  • Algorithms for fast color correction
  • The IM raster toolkit : design, implementation and use
  • Linear models of reflective colour

References
  1. "Alan Paeth - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.ams.org.
  2. https://www.kelownacapnews.com/obituaries/cathy-paeth/
  3. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?n=alan-william-paeth&pid=189318569
  4. "Alan W. Paeth". Scribd.
  5. "Alan W. Paeth". www.goodreads.com.
  6. "Graphics gems V /". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
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