Lenny Lipton, Chief Technology Officer

Lenny Lipton was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Cornell University where he majored in physics.

He founded StereoGraphics Corporation in 1980, and created the electronic stereoscopic display industry. He is the most prolific inventor in the field and has been granted thirty patents in the area of stereoscopic displays. In 1996 he received an award from the Smithsonian for this invention of CrystalEyes®, the first practical electronic stereoscopic product for computer graphics and video applications.

He has written many articles on the topic of imaging, and he has been a contributor to national magazines such as Popular Photography and American Cinematographer. He is a member of The Society for Information Display, the Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers, and he was the chairman of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers working group which established stan¬dards for the projection of stereoscopic theatrical films.

He independently produced twenty-five films, which are in the collection of the Pacific Film Archive of the University of California. His films have been shown on PBS, Italian Television, and the BBC. In his role as a filmmaker, on two occasions, he was a representative of the U.S. Department of State to countries in Latin America.

He has written four books, three of which were pub¬lished by Simon & Schuster, including Independent Filmmaking, which was the standard text on the subject for twenty years. In 1982 Van Nostrand Reinhold published his book, Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema.

At Cornell he wrote the poem that became Puff the Magic Dragon, one of the most enduring and beloved popular songs. He lived in Los Angeles with his wife, three children, two dogs, cat, and bird.