Charles Kuta

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Charles Kuta
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Charles Kuta in Oxford, 2025
Born
Charles Stanley Kuta

1956 (age 68–69)
Pennsylvania, United States
Other namesHerb Kuta
Education Atlantic College
Alma mater University College, Oxford
Stanford University
Occupation(s)Electronics engineer
Software engineer
Employer(s) Silicon Graphics
Pellucid
Quantum3D
Palm, Inc.
CrowdStrike
Known forCo-founder of Silicon Graphics

Charles Stanley "Herb" Kuta (born 1956) is an American electronics engineer and software engineer who was a co-founder of Silicon Graphics, a major graphics workstation manufacturer. [1]

Biography

Charles Kuta was brought up in Pennsylvania, United States. He attended Atlantic College in Wales and then University College, Oxford, England, where he studied engineering science from 1974 to 1977, gaining a first class degree. While there, he also played tuba in the Oxcentrics, an Oxford-based Dixieland jazz band. [2]

Kuta went on to study for a Master's degree at Stanford University in California, USA. While at Stanford, he was invited to be a co-founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc., by Dr. Jim Clark; the company was established in 1982. [3] [4] He was involved in the design of the pipelined Geometry Engine that undertook 3D graphical transformations in hardware.

Subsequently, Kuta worked at Pellucid and co-founded Quantum3D in 1997, where he was Vice President of System Software Architecture. [5] Later, he worked for Palm, Inc., now part of Hewlett-Packard, and CrowdStrike.

References

  1. ↑ "Silicon Graphics – SGI". UK: Centre for Computing History . Retrieved 9 September 2025.
  2. ↑ "The Oxcentrics". Internet Archive. 27 June 2006. Archived from the original on 1 December 2007. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Bowen, Jonathan (2001). "Silicon Graphics, Inc.". In Rojas, Raúl (ed.). Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, The Moschovitis Group. pp. 709–710. ISBN   978-1579582357.
  4. ↑ "The First Quarter-Century". Silicon Graphics. 2007. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2008.
  5. ↑ Charles Kuta [ dead link ], CEO & Executives, Quantum3D, Inc., BusinessWeek .
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