Tribute to Bill

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Bill was a major influence in the areas of computer graphics, visualization, medical computing, and software process. He was loved by many throughout these communities. Here we have captured some of the many tributes contributed by friends and family.

VTK Discourse List

Bill was a significant contributor to the VTK software. He was one of the three original authors of the Visualization Toolkit textbook including the companions software. Bill contributed to VTK until the last weeks of his life, contributing an extensive compendium of examples and code. He was also a driving force in converting the original book into Markdown and LaTeX (with Andrew Maclean and other community members).

Obituary

Bill grew up near Troy, NY where this local obituary was posted.