This article is about the computer scientist. For the physicist, see Robert Sproull.
Bob Sproull
Bob Sproull in 2008
Born
c. 1945
Alma mater
Harvard University, Stanford University
Scientific career
Thesis
Strategy construction using a synthesis of heuristic and decision-theoretic methods(1977)
Doctoral advisor
Jerome A. Feldman
Doctoral students
Brian Reid Carl Ebeling James Gosling Pradeep Sindhu
Robert Fletcher "Bob" Sproull (born c. 1945) is an American computer scientist, who worked for Oracle Corporation where he was director of Oracle Labs in Burlington, Massachusetts. He is currently an adjunct professor at the College of Information and Computer Sciences, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1]
^"Sproull, Bob". College of Information and Computer Sciences. 5 July 2012.
Robert Fletcher "Bob" Sproull (born c. 1945) is an American computer scientist, who worked for Oracle Corporation where he was director of Oracle Labs...
Sproull is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: BobSproull (born c. 1945), American computer scientist Charlie Sproull (1919–1980), American...
computer graphics line clipping algorithm. In 1968, with his students BobSproull, Quintin Foster, Danny Cohen, and others he created the first head-mounted...
audience included Alan Kay, Charles Irby and Andy van Dam, as well as BobSproull. Engelbart, with the help of his geographically distributed team (including...
The method of logical effort, a term coined by Ivan Sutherland and BobSproull in 1991, is a straightforward technique used to estimate delay in a CMOS...
standing for bit-boundary block transfer. Dan Ingalls, Larry Tesler, BobSproull, and Diana Merry programmed this operation at Xerox PARC in November...
Robert Lamb Sproull (August 16, 1918 – October 9, 2014) was an American educator, physicist and US Department of Defense official. Sproull was born in...
recognized the need for a standard means of defining page images. In 1975–76 BobSproull and William Newman developed the Press format, which was eventually used...
Harvard Professor Ivan Sutherland, with the help of his students including BobSproull, created what was widely considered to be the first head-mounted display...
software started as early as 1968 by Ivan Sutherland and his student BobSproull, but most equipment was too expensive for consumer use, and its use for...
Spinrad (at PARC 1978–1982), designed vacuum tube computers, directed PARC BobSproull (at PARC 1973–1977), designed early head-mounted display, wrote widely...
computer science from Carnegie Mellon University where he studied under BobSproull. Sindhu had worked at the Computer Science Lab of Xerox PARC for 11 years...
former President and CEO of Sun Mike Shapiro, co-inventor of DTrace BobSproull, computer graphics pioneer Guy L. Steele, Jr., co-inventor of the Scheme...
Parke Bui Tuong Phong Steve Russell Daniel J. Sandin Alvy Ray Smith BobSproull Ivan Sutherland Daniel Thalmann Johnson K. Yan Andries van Dam John Warnock...
Microsystems. Sun Labs was established in 1990 by Ivan Sutherland and Robert Sproull. The initial locations were in Menlo Park, California and Burlington, Massachusetts...
History of Bert Sutherland" (Interview). Interviewed by David C. Brock and BobSproull. Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California: YouTube. Archived...
Artificial Intelligence Language, was developed by Dan Swinehart and BobSproull of the Stanford AI Lab in 1970. Alumni of the original SAIL played a...
the 1960s, pioneered by researchers like Ivan Sutherland, Fred Brooks, BobSproull, Andrew Ortony and Richard Feldman. But it was not until 1962 when Morton...
in his office, followed by users across the industry. In 1977, he and BobSproull implemented the first client–server window system, D-Lisp. D-Lisp used...
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