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Lenny Lipton Professional Biography Lenny Lipton was born in New York City and graduated from Cornell University with a major in physics. Lipton founded StereoGraphics Corporation in 1980, and is the company's Vice President of Research and Development, and Chairman of the Board. He invented the first practical electronic stereoscopic products for computer graphics and video applications. He is acknowledged to be the leading expert in the field, and has been granted eighteen patents. He has been published in the scientific literature on many occasions and he is a member of the following scientific and engineering organizations: The Society for Information Display, the Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers, and was the chairman of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers working group which successfully established standards for the projection of stereoscopic theatrical films. On two occasions Lipton has been an official representative to countries in Latin America, traveling on behalf of the U.S. Department of State. He has written four books, the first three of which were published by Simon & Schuster, including Independent Filmmaking, which has been the standard text on the subject since 1972; it has sold over 150,000 copies. In 1982 his book, Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema, was published by Van Nostrand Reinhold. It is the standard reference in the field. He recently received the Computerworld/Smithsonian Award for the invention of CrystalEyes. At the age of nineteen he wrote the poem that became Puff the Magic Dragon, which is one of the most enduring and beloved popular songs. |
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