Was Ed Catmull at the University of Utah at the Same Time?

The University of Utah at this time is an amazing place in pioneering computer science and in particular computer graphics. It was really Dr. Evans, the guy who later founded the Evans and Sutherland. Alan Kay, John Warnock who founded Adobe, Jim Clark who would go found Netflix with Mark Andreessen. And then, of course, Ed Catmull, I have to ask, was Ed there at the same time that he was? Wow. Did you know at that time, did you have a sense at the time that this place and this group of people are sort of a special primordial soup of what would become the foundations of the technology industry? Or were you like, ah, these