Jack Elton Bresenham

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Jack Elton Bresenham (born in in 1937) is a professor of computer science. He retired from 27 years of service at IBM as a Senior Technical Staff Member in 1987. He taught for 10 years at Winthrop University and has five patents. He has three children: Janet, Linda, and David.

Bresenham's line algorithm, developed in 1962, is his most well-known innovation. It determines which points on a 2-dimensional raster should be plotted in order to form a straight line between two given points, and is commonly used to draw lines on a computer screen. It is one of the earliest algorithms discovered in the field of computer graphics.

• Ph.D., Stanford University, 1964
• MSIE, Stanford University, 1960
• BSEE, University of New Mexico, 1959

[edit] See also

• List of computer scientists
• Bresenham's line algorithm

[edit] External links

• NIST entry on Bresenham
• European patents by Jack E. Bresenham