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Brian Paul
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Brian Paul

American software programmer

Brian E. Paul is a computer programmer who originally wrote and maintained the source code for the open source Mesa graphics library until 2012, and is still active in the project. He began writing its source code in August 1993.2

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Born 2000.1

About

Mesa is a free software/open source graphics library that provides a generic OpenGL implementation for rendering three-dimensional graphics on multiple platforms.

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Early life and education

  • Date not recordedUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of Wisconsin–Oshkosh3

Paul obtained his bachelor's degree at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in 1990. He worked on the SSEC Visualization Project while obtaining his master's degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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Career

Occupation: software developer, computer scientist, engineer.7

Known for: Mesa.8

Paul continued working on the SSEC Project after graduation. He has also worked for Silicon Graphics, Avid Technology, and Precision Insight (bought out by VA Linux Systems).

In 2000, Paul won the third Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software.

In November 2001, he co-founded Tungsten Graphics, which was acquired by VMware in December 2008, where he now works.

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Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited States9

Awards

  • 2001FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software10 11

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