The founder of the Computer Graphics Lab at the New York Institute of Technology was named a co-winner of this year’s A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of Computing. Edwin ...

When Edwin Catmull arrived at the University of Utah’s graphics lab as a grad student in 1970, its state-of-the-art monochrome monitors showed only blocky shapes made from polygons. He spent the next ...

In the computer graphics lab at the University of Waterloo, Stephen Mann is enjoying the sweet taste of success. “Ah,” he says, as he bends over a whirring white machine.

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. The term “computer lab” might bring to mind a room filled ...