Company Biography

Abe Megahed,
Chief Technology Officer

MR. ABE MEGAHED is the original creator of the Hypercosm technology and is the founder of Hypercosm.

Mr. Megahed has over 15 years of experience in computer software technology and computer graphics with an emphasis in real time 3D simulation, ray tracing, programming language design, and compiler implementation. He holds three patents in the field of computer graphics.

Mr. Megahed formerly was Chairman and CEO of Hypercosm Inc. from 1999 to 2001, which was a leader in 3D graphics technology for the web and employed up to 30 people during the height of the dot-com boom. Mr. Megahed also formerly worked at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratory where he received two patents for new 3D graphics rendering algorithms. He was a featured presenter at Siggraph (1992 and 1999), the world’s leading forum for computer graphics research and his work has been published in the OpenGL Programming Guide (the "red book") where he is proud to have made it into the index before "Microsoft".

Mr. Megahed began working professionally in the field of computer graphics writing CAD software at Point-Line CAD in Madison, Wisconsin in 1989. In 1992, Mr. Megahed built 3D simulations for robotics at the University of Wisconsin. He started and ran his first software company, Cosmic Software, from 1993-1994. Subsequently he worked on 3D video games for kids in San Francisco at Gravity Inc., which was formerly known as VPL (the pioneering company in virtual reality founded by Jaron Lanier). Mr. Megahed also spent a year doing multimedia programming with Leapfrog Inc. in Malaysia in 1996. Mr. Megahed has a BS in Computer Science from UW-Madison.