James Clark

Name: James H. Clark

Born: March 23, 1944, in Plainview, Texas, USA

Computer-related contributions

• American entrepreneur and computer scientist who founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO, and Healtheon.
• His research work in computer graphics led to the development of systems for the fast rendering of three-dimensional computer images.

Significant publications

• Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took On Microsoft (1999).

Honors and awards

• ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award (1984).
• Kilby International Awards (1997).

Quotes

"No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming."

"I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did."