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James "Jim" Clark Jr., OBE (Kilmany, 4 de março de 1936 — Hockenheim, 7 de abril de 1968) foi um automobilista britânico que nasceu na Escócia, sendo duas vezes Campeão Mundial de Fórmula 1.
Jim Clark - Wikipedia. James Clark OBE (4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968) was a British racing driver from Scotland who won two Formula One World Championships in 1963 and 1965. A versatile driver, he competed in sports cars, touring cars, and in the Indianapolis 500, which he won in 1965.
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Clark was born in Plainview, Texas, on March 23, 1944. He dropped out of high school at 16 and spent four years in the US Navy, where he was introduced to electronics. Clark began taking night courses at Tulane University's University College where, despite his lack of a high school diploma, he was able to earn enough credits to be admitted to the ...
Academia
After completing his doctorate, Clark worked at the New York Institute of Technology's Computer Graphics Lab. He served as an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974-1978) before moving to Stanford University as an associate professor of electrical engineering (1979-1982). Clark's research work concerned geometry pipelines, specialized software or hardware that accelerates the display of three dimensional images. The peak of his group's advancements was the Geome...
Silicon Graphics
In 1982, Clark along with several Stanford graduate students founded Silicon Graphics (SGI). The earliest Silicon Graphics graphical workstations were mainly terminals, but they were soon followed by stand-alone graphical Unix workstations with very fast graphics rendering hardware. In the mid-1980s, Silicon Graphics began to use the MIPS CPU as the foundation of their newest workstations, replacing the Motorola 68000. By 1991, Silicon Graphics had become the world leader in the production of...
Netscape
In February 1994, Clark sought out Marc Andreessen who had led the development of Mosaic, the first widely distributed and easy-to-use software for browsing the World Wide Web, while employed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Clark and Andreessen founded Netscape, and developed the Netscape Navigator web browser. The founding of Netscape and its IPO in August 1995 launched the Internet boom on Wall Streetduring the mid-to-late 1990s. Clark's initial investment in...
Clark received the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 1984. In 1996, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. He was a recipient of the 1997 Kilby International Awards, which honored him for his computer graphics vision and for enabling networked information exchange. In 1988, Clark was an Award Re...
Clark has been married four times and has four children. The divorce from his third wife of 15 years, Nancy Rutter, a Forbes journalist, is reported to have cost him $125 million in cash and assets in the settlement. Soon afterwards he began dating Australian model Kristy Hinze, 35 years his junior. Hinze became his fourth wife when they married in...
Clark is an enthusiastic yachtsman but cannot sail in rough ocean races such as the Sydney-Hobart due to an arthritic condition in his anklesand prefers one-day regattas on the smoother waters of the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and off Newport, Rhode Island. In 2012, however, he commented that "after 28 years of owning boats, I'm over it." He is t...
Clark is a pilot who enjoys flying helicopters, gliders (built in Germany) and acrobatic aircraft (such as the Extra EA-300).
Clark has contributed to Stanford University, where he was an associate electrical engineering professor. In 1999, he pledged $150 million toward construction of the James H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering and related programs for interdisciplinary biomedical research. At the time, it was the largest-ever contribution to Stanford, other th...
Catmull–Clark subdivision surface, a 3D modelling technique Clark invented in collaboration with Edwin Catmull
"James H. Clark", Business Week, 1999.James Clark, Jr dit Jim Clark, né le 4 mars 1936, à Kilmany, Fife en Écosse et mort le 7 avril 1968 lors d'une course de Formule 2 sur le circuit d'Hockenheim en Allemagne, est un pilote automobile britannique dont la brève carrière dans les années 1960 a marqué l'histoire du sport automobile.
- 7 avril 1968 (à 32 ans)
- Hockenheim, Allemagne
- 4 mars 1936
- Kilmany, Écosse, Royaume-Uni
James „Jim“ Clark junior, OBE (* 4. März 1936 in Kilmany, Fife, Schottland; † 7. April 1968 in Hockenheim) war ein britischer Automobilrennfahrer. Er startete zwischen 1960 und 1968 bei 72 Grand-Prix-Rennen für Lotus in der Formel 1 und wurde zweimal Weltmeister (1963 und 1965).
7 de abr. de 2018 · No dia 7 de abril de 1968, há exatos 50 anos, portanto, um acidente numa inexpressiva corrida de Fórmula 2, em Hockenheim, matou o escocês Jim Clark, maior nome da categoria nos anos 1960 e, por que não dizer, ídolo maior de uma geração.
James "Jim" Clark Jr., OBE (Kilmany, 4 de março de 1936 — Hockenheim, 7 de abril de 1968) foi um automobilista britânico que nasceu na Escócia, sendo duas vezes Campeão Mundial de Fórmula 1.
