Henri Gouraud (enquiring)

See also: Henri Gouraud

Henri Gouraud (born in 1944) is a researcher in French data processing. He is inter alia the inventor of the technique of shade in synthesized image which bears its name, the Ombrage of Gouraud.

Wire and nephew of generals, it makes studies with the Military academy of the Arrow (where it meets Patrick Baudelaire) then becomes engineer of the Central Ecole of Paris (promotion 1967). It Marie with Sylvie, then, of 1968 to 1971, it prepares Ph.D. at the University of Utah, with Ivan Sutherland. Its thesis returns it celebrates, and the museum of the data processing of Boston exposes from now on the model of the head of Sylvie used to illustrate the shades.

Of return in France to make its military service, it enters to TECSI, a service company where one meets at the time of the Ph.D. young people in data processing like Jean-Yves Leclerc and Vincent Tixier. It then briefly takes part with Patrick Baudelaire in the adventure of the World center of Data processing directed by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, then creates in 1983 company TANGRAM with Baudelaire, Michel Gangnet and Bernard Scherrer. The company is repurchased in 1986 by Digital Equipment Corporation whose director of research, Robert Taylor, who was at the University of Utah in 1969, knows Gouraud and Baudelaire well. The latter then direct during a few years the Research center of DIGITAL to France (PRL). When DIGITAL is repurchased by Compaq, Henri Gouraud leaves the company for new adventures. Those lead it to take the assistant position of director of the European research laboratory of Sun Microsystems in Grenoble. Unfortunately, the financial problems of Sun lead it to close this laboratory in 2004.

It carries out a retirement activates while collaborating with companies like Exalead directed by François Bourdoncle.

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