Gary Starkweather

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Gary Keith Starkweather (January 9, 1938 – December 26, 2019) was an American engineer, inventor, and Apple Fellow most notable for the invention of the and .
==Education==
Starkweather received a B.S. in physics from in 1960 and an M.S. in optics from the in 1966.Gary Starkweather, Microsoft, University of Washington. Archived 2011-09-27.
==Career==
In 1969, Starkweather invented the at the Xerox Webster Research Center. He collaborated on the first fully functional laser printing system at Xerox PARC in 1971.
===Apple Computer===
Starkweather joined Apple Computer as an Apple Fellow in March 1988.Personal Computing in the 21st Century by Gary K. Starkweather, User Interface Software and Technology, Association for Computing Machinery. 2005-10-23. There he invented technology, and led the development of ColorSync 1.0.Gary K. Starkweather, "Method and apparatus for calibrating and adjusting a color imaging system," U.S. Patent 5694227, Dec. 2, 1997
===After Apple===
Starkweather joined Microsoft Research in May 1997, where he worked on display technology.
==Awards and recognition==
In 1991, Starkweather was awarded the .
Starkweather also made major contributions to digital matte film techniques. He was a consultant on the digital effects team for the original movie which was released in 1977. He won a technical Academy Award in 1994 for his pioneering work with (and later, Pixar) in the field of color film scanning. 
In 2004, he was elected to the United States . Starkweather died on December 26, 2019 at the age of 81.
==References==
==External links==
*Gary Starkweather at Apple Research Labs (archived 1997-01-04)
*Gary Starkweather: The Eureka Moment at the Computer History Museum (2011)
*Gary Starkweather: perseverence, 'laser' vision lead to printer innovation at Michigan State University College of Natural Science
* at Wikipedia
===Articles===
*A Christian in Silicon Valley: An Interview with Gary Starkweather by Nathan W. Bingham at Ligonier Ministries (2012-02-03)
*Column: RIP Gary Starkweather, whose laser printer made Xerox billions and changed your lives by Michael Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times (2020-01-17)
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