Graphics, John Warnock, cofounder of Adobe Systems, Ed Catmull of Pixar, Henri Gouraud (Gouraud shading) and Bui Tuong Phong (Phong shading). After 1973, he devoted his full-time to Burroughs Systems Research in La Jolla, San Diego, California, working on new computer architectures and systems programming. Awards IEEE 1977 W. Wallace McDowell Award Recipient. “For his innovative architectural computer concepts, such as stack processing, data stored with self-describing tags, and the direct execution of higher level languages, as embodied in the B-5000 and successor machines” Barton was the first recipient of the ACM/IEEE Computer Society Eckert–Mauchly Award in 1979: For his outstanding contributions in basing the design of computing systems on the hierarchical nature of programs and their data. Charter Computer Pioneer by the IEEE Computer Society for his work in Language Directed Architecture. Selected papers Quotes "Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult." (1967) References "Robert S. Barton: IEEE 1977 W. Wallace McDowell Award Recipient" Further reading Waychoff, Richard, "Stories about the B5000 and people who were there", April 9, 1979 External links The Early History of Smalltalk by Alan C. Kay History of the School of Computing – University of Utah History of the College of Engineering – University of Utah (see pp. 52, 63) A Critical Review of the State of the Programming Art A New Approach to the Functional Design of a Digital Computer (Barton, 1961) Computer hardware engineers Burroughs Corporation people 1925 births 2009 deaths University of Iowa alumni University of Utah faculty Unisys