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Business leader Sir Ian Taylor will be recognised for his contribution to business and to Dunedin, and for his service to the wider community, with the conferring of an Honorary Doctor of Commerce from the University of Otago at Saturday’s graduation ceremony.
Sir Ian, from Ngāti Kahungunu and Pahauwera, graduated from Otago with a law degree in 1976.
He went on to form Animation Research, which has become a global leader in technology development, pioneering real-time 3D visualisation for major sports broadcasts.
Sir Ian says he never thought of himself as a businessman.
He says he first came to Dunedin in a rock and roll band, worked in breweries and on television’s lay School before approaching the university in 1989 with the idea of seeing how its award-winning research on computer graphics could be combined with what he was doing in television.
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