# William Newman

> William Maxwell Newman was a British computer scientist. With others at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s Newman demonstrated the advantages of the raster display technology first deployed in the Xerox Alto personal workstation, developing interactive programs for producing illustrations and drawings. With Bob Sproull he co-authored the first major textbook on interactive computer graphics.

*Computer scientist*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/william-newman-q26225973

## Identity
- **Born:** 1939-05-21
- **Died:** 2019-06-11
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 36.9 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 2.2 / 100
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- **Profile completeness:** 36.0 / 100

## Sources
- [William Newman](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Newman)
- [William Newman (computer scientist)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Newman_(computer_scientist))
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26225973)

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