David Rice Hedgley Jr. (born January 21, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois and died April 13, 2024 in Seal Beach, California) was an American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

and

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who made major contributions to the field of

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. One of his contributions was the solution of the hidden-line problem in computer 3D graphics.

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