Gary Starkweather

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.

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. There he invented technology, and led the development of ColorSync 1.0.

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.

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)