Alex Kipman

Alex Kipman is the lead developer of the Microsoft Hololens and helped develop the Xbox Kinect. He was born in 1979,[1][2] and grew up in Natal, Brazil.[3]

Alex Kipman
Born1979[1][2]
EducationRochester Institute of Technology
EmployerMicrosoft

Biography

Kipman was born in 1979 and grew up in Natal.[2][1][3] He graduated RIT University in 2001 with a degree in software engineering and joined Microsoft that same year,[4][5] starting development on Microsoft's integrated development environment (IDE) Visual Studio. Starting 2005, he helped in the development of Microsoft Windows, until joining the Xbox department in 2008.[6] His role at Microsoft has led to him being known as the "Technical Fellow." Kipman has made an analogy of his work to artwork, saying that "Software is the only art form in existence that is not bound by the confines of physics."[6]

List of awards
Alex Kipman
Time's Top 25 Nerds of the Year, 2010[7][3]
TIME Magazine's 2011 100 People of the Year.[4]
2012 National Inventor of the Year, Intellectual Property Foundation[4]
gollark: Apiocity is basically bee-ness.
gollark: It's a much more complex procedure involving invocation of the dark bee gods, [REDACTED]-65, several orbs of apiocity (μ-class and up), the ███ ████████ ████ █████ arrays, and direct memory access.
gollark: And tell them that they're being impossible.
gollark: Really? You'll have to talk to our physics disabling department.
gollark: Your claim is irrelevant.

References
  1. "alex kipman - 283 Palavras". www.trabalhosfeitos.com. Trabalhos feitos. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  2. Ridolfi, Edoardo (2015-05-05). "Alex Kipman, il papà di Kinect e HoloLens". Cultora. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  3. Heyn, Beth (2017-10-03). "Alex Kipman, Microsoft HoloLens Inventor: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  4. "RIT Innovation Hall of Fame". www.rit.edu. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  5. "Alex Kipman (Brazil)". www.epo.org. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  6. Eadicicco, Lisa. "Meet The Man Behind Microsoft's Ambitious Vision For The Future Of Computing". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  7. Kedmey, Dan. "Meet the Inventor Behind Tech's Weirdest New Product". Time. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
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