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• Daniel Langlois (Canada) founded SOFTIMAGE in 1986 and is President and Chief Executive Officer of the company. Following SOFTIMAGE’s acquisition by Microsoft Corporation in June 1994, Daniel Langlois also took on the position of Senior Director, Advanced Authoring Technology of Microsoft’s Advanced Consumer Technology Group. Mr. Langlois has been an important contributor to the field of computer graphics, notably for his involvement in the design and production of the first stereoscopic 3D computer animation in IMAX format (presented at Expo ’86), and the film Tony de Peltrie (1985) which received several international awards.