Alex Kipman

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

Alex Kipman
Born1979 (age 41–42)[1][2]
Other namesTechnical Fellow
EducationRochester Institute of Technology
EmployerMicrosoft

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 University, 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 Alice Bonasio, 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
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  2. 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. Heyn, Beth (2017-10-03). "Alex Kipman, Microsoft HoloLens Inventor: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  5. Honorato, Renata. "'Kinect é só o primeiro passo', diz o brasileiro que está revolucionando o mundo dos games". veja.abril.com.br.
  6. "RIT Innovation Hall of Fame". www.rit.edu. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  7. "Alex Kipman (Brazil)". www.epo.org. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  8. 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.

Fastcompany interview
Ted speech

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