Alex Kipman

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Alex Kipman
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Born1979 (age 42–43)[1][2]
Other namesTechnical Fellow
EducationRochester Institute of Technology
EmployerMicrosoft

Alex Kipman is a Brazilian engineer. He is the lead developer of the Microsoft HoloLens smartglasses and helped develop the Xbox Kinect. He was born in Curitiba in 1979,[3][1][2] and grew up in Natal, Brazil.[4]

Biography[]

Kipman was born in Curitiba in 1979 and grew up in Natal, Brazil. [2][1][4] When he was seven or 8, he learned how to program the Atari 2600.[5] Later on he would go to RIT, graduating in 2001 with a degree in software engineering and joined Microsoft that same year,[6][7] starting development on Microsoft's integrated development environment (IDE) Visual Studio. Starting 2005, he helped in the development of Microsoft Windows, until joining the Xbox department in 2008,[8] where he came up with the idea of creating the Xbox Kinect in just two days. He proved to Microsoft he could develop a prototype for the Kinect in two months, and then the product was finished two years later.[5] In his career at Microsoft, his experience has led to him issuing over one-hundred patents, for technologies such as the Hololens and Xbox Kinect. He is known at Microsoft as a "Technical Fellow". In a 2011 interview with Fast Company, he said "Software is the only art form in existence that is not bound by the confines of physics."[9][8] In 2016, he gave a Ted Talk on mixed reality, titled "A futuristic vision of the age of Holograms".[4][10][11] In a 2017 interview with , he emphasized his passion for mixed reality, stating how it gives him a sense of "displacement superpowers".[12] During the Hololens 2 reveal at the Mobile World Congress in 2019, Alex Kipman talked about how the Hololens 2 would be the "next era" of mixed reality, making it more culturally relevant.[13]

List of awards
Alex Kipman
Time's Top 25 Nerds of the Year, 2010[14][4]
TIME Magazine's 2011 100 People of the Year.[6]
2012 National Inventor of the Year, Intellectual Property Foundation[6]
Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards 2019[15]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "alex kipman - 283 Palavras". www.trabalhosfeitos.com. Trabalhos feitos. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  2. ^ a b c Ridolfi, Edoardo (2015-05-05). "Alex Kipman, il papà di Kinect e HoloLens". Cultora. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  3. ^ "Alex Kipman". awexr.com. AWE 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d Heyn, Beth (2017-10-03). "Alex Kipman, Microsoft HoloLens Inventor: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  5. ^ a b Honorato, Renata. "'Kinect é só o primeiro passo', diz o brasileiro que está revolucionando o mundo dos games". veja.abril.com.br. Archived from the original on 2010-11-21.
  6. ^ a b c "RIT Innovation Hall of Fame". www.rit.edu. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  7. ^ "Alex Kipman (Brazil)". www.epo.org. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  8. ^ a b Eadicicco, Lisa. "Meet The Man Behind Microsoft's Ambitious Vision For The Future Of Computing". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  9. ^ "19. Alex Kipman". Fastcompany.com. Fast Company.
  10. ^ Hussein, Al. "Top 5 AR TED Talks You Must Watch". augmania. Augmania. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
  11. ^ Kipman, Alex. "A futuristic vision of the age of holograms". Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  12. ^ Bonasio, Alice. "Is Mixed Reality The Future Of Computing?". fastcompany.com. Fast Company.
  13. ^ Warren, Tom. "Microsoft's new open model for Windows and HoloLens 2 impresses Epic's Tim Sweeney". theverge.com. Vox Media, LLC.
  14. ^ Kedmey, Dan. "Meet the Inventor Behind Tech's Weirdest New Product". Time. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  15. ^ "Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards 2019: Alex Kipman". Smithsonian Magazine. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved July 11, 2020.

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