The Microsoft engineer, who recently was honored as National Inventor of the Year for his work on Kinect for the Xbox 360 video game system and Windows PCs, will be the keynote speaker for RIT's 128th commencement celebration in May.
Alex Kipman will be at the Academic Convocation set for 2:00 p.m. on May 17 in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center. Kipman is one of nine distinguished alumni that RIT honored this year, and President Bill Destler said the university is honored to welcome him back as commencement speaker.
Kipman graduated from RIT's Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences with a degree in softward engineer. He joined in Microsoft in 2001 and for the past five years has worked at Microsoft as general manager of incubation for Xbox in the company’s Interactive Entertainment Business unit.
In December, he was honored by the nonprofit Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation as National Inventor of the Year. and in 2012, Microsoft awarded him “Outstanding Technical Leadership” and his team “Outstanding Technical Achievement” for their work on Kinect, the motion-sensing input device which enables hands-free gaming technology. Kipman, the primary inventor of Kinect, holds more than 60 patents since 2001.
At the Academic Convocation, Destler will confer degrees upon some 3,500 undergraduate and graduate students. The event kicks off RIT’s two-day commencement celebration.
Past keynote speakers at RIT's commencement have included President Bill Clinton, Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox, and scientist Bill Nye.
The Microsoft engineer, who recently was honored as National Inventor of the Year for his work on Kinect for the Xbox 360 video game system and Windows PCs, will be the keynote speaker for RIT's 128th commencement celebration in May.
Alex Kipman will be at the Academic Convocation set for 2:00 p.m. on May 17 in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center. Kipman is one of nine distinguished alumni that RIT honored this year, and President Bill Destler said the university is honored to welcome him back as commencement speaker.
Kipman graduated from RIT's Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences with a degree in softward engineer. He joined in Microsoft in 2001 and for the past five years has worked at Microsoft as general manager of incubation for Xbox in the company’s Interactive Entertainment Business unit.
In December, he was honored by the nonprofit Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation as National Inventor of the Year. and in 2012, Microsoft awarded him “Outstanding Technical Leadership” and his team “Outstanding Technical Achievement” for their work on Kinect, the motion-sensing input device which enables hands-free gaming technology. Kipman, the primary inventor of Kinect, holds more than 60 patents since 2001.
At the Academic Convocation, Destler will confer degrees upon some 3,500 undergraduate and graduate students. The event kicks off RIT’s two-day commencement celebration.
Past keynote speakers at RIT's commencement have included President Bill Clinton, Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox, and scientist Bill Nye.
