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The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible
Computer scientist Bùi Tường Phong's life story reflects the turbulence of Asian American history.
Domestically, the U.S. cannibalized the contributions of Asian scientists into U.S. society, including projects of foreign intervention, while treating them as a featureless and interchangeable labor force lacking any individual characteristics. Though Bùi Tường Phong did not live to see the global reach of his work, or to steward his own representation, we can commemorate him by remembering the full extent of his life and legacy: with all its turbulence and contradictions under U.S. empire. Theodore Kim is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, a former Senior Research Scientist for Pixar, a two-time Academy Award winner, and is currently writing a book on the racial biases baked into the algorithms for computer-generated imagery.Yoehan Oh is a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in Computer Science at Yale University, where he is teaching a transpacific computing history course and writing a book about a sociotechnical history of the South Korean Internet giant Naver's platform machinery and its domestic survival and international expansions.Jacinda S. Tran is a postdoctoral fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, where she is writing a book about how the U.S. military “saw,” and subsequently destroyed, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam throughout the latter half of the 20th century.
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