William Newman

Computer scientist

  • Fame36.9
  • Momentum3.9
  • Wikipedia118
Source-basedFalling
Lived 1939–2019, aged 80
  • Era
    1939–2019
    Aged 80
Summary
Updated 2026-06-18

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.

Where to find them

Platforms

No platforms connected yet.

By the numbers

Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Falling
36.9
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum3.9
Historical2.2
Source confidence15.0
Completeness36.0
Global rank
Country rank
Category rank
Receipts

Sources