Charles Kuta was brought up in
Pennsylvania, United States. He attended
Atlantic College in
Wales and then
University College, Oxford,
England, where he studied
engineering science from 1974 to 1977, gaining a
first class degree. While there, he also played
tuba in the
Oxcentrics, an
Oxford-based
Dixieland jazz band. Kuta went on to study for a
Master's degree at
Stanford University in
California, USA. While at Stanford, he was invited to be a co-founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc., by Dr.
Jim Clark; the company was established in 1982. He was involved in the design of the pipelined
Geometry Engine that undertook 3D graphical transformations in hardware. Subsequently, Kuta worked at
Pellucid and co-founded
Quantum3D in 1997, where he was Vice President of System Software Architecture. Later, he worked for
Palm, Inc., now part of
Hewlett-Packard, and
CrowdStrike. ==References==