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GARY K. STARKWEATHER
GARY K. STARKWEATHER
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He was an exceptional innovator known for his imagination, hard work, and utter joy when prototyping and tackling challenging problems, all with ever-present humor. He was a welcoming and generous collaborator who engaged many colleagues to help him build successive prototype laser scanners perched atop gutted copiers to be part of a computer printing system, eventually producing several dozen networked printers operated inside Xerox and at a few external test sites.
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He started putting together prototypes: deflecting a laser beam with a spinning multifaceted polygonal mirror, modulating the beam with a Pockels cell, and focusing the beam spot on the photosensitive drum of a Xerox copier with its optical imaging components removed. There were many practical problems, and key components were expensive and unreliable.
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The Alto personal computer developed at PARC, augmented with hardware to generate page images and send them to Gary's printer, was the first printer server. In getting to a persuasive prototype, Gary overcame many obstacles with solutions that often showed his imagination.
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Laser printers based on Gary's design sprouted a large industry, fueled by rapidly declining costs of digital e lectronics and computers, by new modulator and laser designs (especially laser diodes) , and by software such as Adobe's Postscript to generate and print complex page images.
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The research venue gave him the tools and freedom to return to his natural mode of experimenting, building, and inventing. Just as one would expect, an optical bench with assorted lasers soon appeared in the center of the group's hardware lab.
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from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1994 for work on film scanning for Lucasfilm's Star Wars. He received major awards from the Optical Society of America and the Society for Information Display, which made him a fellow in 2003, and he was elected to the NAE in 2004.
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