Alex Kipman Explained

Alex Kipman
Birth Date:[1]
Nickname:Technical Fellow
Employer:Microsoft (2021–2022)
Analog AI (2023–present)
Alma Mater:Rochester Institute of Technology

Alex Kipman (born 1979) is a Brazilian engineer and inventor who is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Analog AI.[2] [3] Previously, he was the lead developer of the Microsoft HoloLens smartglasses and helped develop the Xbox Kinect.[4]

Early life and education

Kipman was born in Curitiba in 1979.[1] The son of a Brazilian diplomat, Kipman grew up around the world.[5] When he was seven or eight, he learned how to program the Atari 2600.[6] Later on he would go to RIT, graduating in 2001 with a degree in software engineering.

Career

Kipman joined Microsoft in 2001,[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 oversaw the acquisition of the technology for the Xbox Kinect from an Israeli company,[9] PrimeSense.[10] The product was finished two years later.[6]

In 2011, Time magazine named him to its list of its 100 Most Influential People in the World, a list consisting of leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes. In a subsequent interview with Fast Company, he said "Software is the only art form in existence that is not bound by the confines of physics."[11] [12] In 2012 he was named Inventor of the Year by the Intellectual Property Owners Association.[13] [14]

In 2013, Kipman gave the commencement speech at his alma mater, the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).[15]

In 2016, he gave a Ted Talk on mixed reality, called "A futuristic vision of the age of Holograms".[16] [17] In a 2017 interview with Alice Bonasio, he emphasized his passion for mixed reality, stating how it gives him a sense of "displacement superpowers".[18] 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.[19]

In 2019 while he was developing metaverse technologies, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C named Kipman the winner of an American Ingenuity Award, calling him a pioneer of holographic and augmented reality technology.[20] Later that year he gave a speech in Shanghai announcing that Microsoft's second-generation HoloLens would ship later that year.[21]

In 2021, he received the Longuet-Higgins Prize by the Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Technical Committee at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) for fundamental contributions in computer vision.[22]

In May 2022, Kipman left Microsoft to found Analog AI.[23] [24] [25] He has been the CEO of Analog AI since 2023.[2] In March 2024, he joined Verses AI as a strategic advisor.[26]

Awards and recognition

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ridolfi . Edoardo . May 5, 2015 . Alex Kipman, il papà di Kinect e HoloLens . June 18, 2020 . Cultora.
  2. Web site: Abu Dhabi's G42 invests in edge computing and AI start-up Analog at WEF launch . Alkesh . Sharma . January 18, 2024. The National.
  3. Web site: UAE’s G42 unveils new edge computing firm Analog. Udakwashe . Muzoriwa . January 18, 2024 . Gulf Business.
  4. Web site: Alex Kipman . awexr.com . AWE 2020 . May 29, 2020.
  5. Web site: 2012-06-12 . A Career of Thriving on 'Impossible Projects' – Including Kinect for Xbox 360 . 2022-10-26 . Stories . en-US.
  6. Web site: Honorato . Renata . 'Kinect é só o primeiro passo', diz o brasileiro que está revolucionando o mundo dos games . https://web.archive.org/web/20101121030001/http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/vida-digital/%E2%80%9Cdesenvolvi-o-primeiro-prototipo-em-dois-meses%E2%80%9D-diz-criador-do-kinect . dead . November 21, 2010 . veja.abril.com.br.
  7. Web site: Alex Kipman (Brazil) . July 5, 2020 . www.epo.org . en.
  8. Web site: Eadicicco . Lisa . Meet The Man Behind Microsoft's Ambitious Vision For The Future Of Computing . July 5, 2020 . Business Insider.
  9. Web site: Hester . Blake . January 14, 2020 . All the money in the world couldn't make Kinect happen . May 27, 2022 . Polygon . en-US.
  10. Web site: Review . MIT Technology . PrimeSense . May 27, 2022 . MIT Technology Review . en-us.
  11. Web site: 19. Alex Kipman . Fastcompany.com . Fast Company.
  12. . April 4, 2011. July 27, 2022 . The 2011 TIME 100 Poll.
  13. Web site: Intellectual Property Owners Association. Inventor of the Year. August 6, 2012. July 27, 2022.
  14. Web site: Rochester Institute of Technology. Alex Kipman '01 named Inventor of the Year. December 13, 2012. July 27, 2022. Moser. Mindy.
  15. Web site: 2013 Commencement . 2022-10-26 . www.rit.edu . en.
  16. Web site: Hussein . Al . Top 5 AR TED Talks You Must Watch . augmania . Augmania . July 11, 2020.
  17. Web site: Kipman . Alex . A futuristic vision of the age of holograms . March 25, 2016 . August 29, 2020.
  18. Web site: Bonasio . Alice . Is Mixed Reality The Future Of Computing? . fastcompany.com . Fast Company.
  19. Web site: Warren . Tom . Microsoft's new open model for Windows and HoloLens 2 impresses Epic's Tim Sweeney . theverge.com . February 25, 2019 . Vox Media, LLC.
  20. Web site: Smithsonian Magazine. Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards 2019: Alex Kipman. December 11, 2019. July 27, 2022.
  21. Web site: Reuters. August 28, 2019. July 27, 2022. Microsoft says new augmented reality headset to go on sale in September.
  22. Web site: PAMITC AWARDS CVPR 2021 . 2022-10-26 . cvpr2021.thecvf.com.
  23. Web site: Daniel Rubino . May 25, 2022 . A new report calls out Alex Kipman and other Microsoft execs for 'verbal abuse and sexual harassment' . May 27, 2022 . Windows Central . en.
  24. Web site: Microsoft staff accuse execs of misconduct, abuse . May 27, 2022 . GamesIndustry.biz . May 26, 2022 . en.
  25. Web site: HoloLens co-creator Alex Kipman is resigning from Microsoft following Insider's report about misconduct allegations . Insider . June 8, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220608010028/https://www.businessinsider.com/alex-kipman-resigning-microsoft-following-insider-report-misconduct-allegations-2022-6 . June 8, 2022.
  26. Web site: VERSES Names Analog CEO Alex Kipman as Strategic Advisor & Closes US$2M Investment.
  27. Web site: Terdiman . Daniel . Popular Mechanics awards highlight innovators . 2022-10-26 . CNET . en.
  28. Web site: McNary . Dave . 2010-09-23 . PGA announces Digital 25 . 2022-10-26 . Variety . en-US.
  29. Web site: Cameron, Jobs, Katzenberg Make PGA's 2010 Digital 25 List . 2022-10-26 . Animation World Network . en.
  30. Kedmey . Dan . Meet the Inventor Behind Tech's Weirdest New Product . June 17, 2020 . Time.
  31. Web site: Heyn . Beth . October 3, 2017 . Alex Kipman, Microsoft HoloLens Inventor: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know . June 17, 2020 . Heavy.com . en-US.
  32. Web site: RIT Innovation Hall of Fame . July 4, 2020 . www.rit.edu.
  33. Web site: MEET THE 100 MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE IN BUSINESS 2011 . Fast Company.
  34. Web site: Innovation Hall of Fame Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship RIT . 2022-10-26 . www.rit.edu.
  35. Web site: Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards 2019: Alex Kipman . . Smithsonian Institution . July 11, 2020.

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