Robert Lansdown

Name: Robert John Lansdown

Born: January 2, 1929, in Cardiff, Wales

Death: February 17, 1999 (Age: 70)

Computer-related contributions

• British computer graphics pioneer.
• Polymath and Professor Emeritus at Middlesex University Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts.
• Pioneered the use of computers as an aid to planning architecture; making perspective drawings on an Elliott 803 computer in 1963.

Significant publications

• Teach Yourself Computer Graphics (1987).

Honors and awards

• Middlesex University Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, renamed in his honor (2000).