William Newman (computer scientist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 21-May-1939
Place of Birth: Comberton, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 11-Jun-2019
Profession: computer scientist
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About William Newman (computer scientist)
- William Maxwell Newman (21 May 1939 - 11 June 2019) was a British computer scientist.
- With others at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s Newman demonstrated the advantages of the raster (bitmap graphics) 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.
- Newman later contributed to the field of human–computer interaction, publishing several papers and a book taking an engineering approach to the design of interactive systems.
- He was an honorary professor at University College London and became an ACM SIGCHI Academy member in 2004.
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