Overview
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0628
Creator:
Akeley, Kurt
Title: Kurt Akeley papers
Dates: 1982-2000
Physical Description:
22.5 Linear feet (15 boxes) and 550 megabytes
Summary: Papers of Kurt Akeley largely pertaining to research and product development for Silicon Graphics Inc.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Custodial History
Gift of Kurt Akeley, 2001
Information about Access
The materials are open for research use.
Ownership & Copyright
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.
Cite As
[Identification of item], Kurt Akeley Papers (SC0628). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biography
Kurt Akeley, one of the founders of Silicon Graphics, Incorporated, earned his M.S.E.E. from Stanford University in 1982.
He has published papers on computer graphics architectures and taught courses on graphics programming at the annual SIGGRAPH
conferences.
Scope and Content
This collection includes memoranda, reports, manuals, publications, notebooks, outlines and text for presentations, email
printouts, patents, slides, and videos pertaining to research and product development for Silicon Graphics and its customers;
collection also includes Akeley's notes from a class with Jim Clark, 1987.
Access Terms
Clark, Jim.
Silicon Graphics Inc.
Computer assisted graphics.
Computer graphics.
Visual programming (Computer science).