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  • Theodore Rozak Model Released. IT Conference on computer freedom and privacy in San Francisco, California Theodore Roszak: an author who warns about computers getting out of control..8D. Theodore Roszak, writer, professor at California State University, Hayward, California. Roszak spoke at the conference on a panel discussion on "The Case Against Computers: A Systematic Critique" with Jerry Mander of the Elmwood Institute and Richard Sclove. This portrait is in his office at Cal State, Hayward. Roszak has written a number of books, including The Making of the Counterculture, the book that named a generation. . Roszak said, "Computers are like genies that get out of control." ."The cult of information is theirs, not ours." ."Every tool ever invented is a mixed blessing." ."There never will be a machine that makes us wiser than our own naked minds.".((Roszak was most uncooperative, saying he was very busy and that it was not to his advantage to be in an article in Germany when his recent books are not translated into German. We did a few shots of him holding the TV monitor and then he said he couldn't do it anymore so my assistant wore his jacket for the rest of the shoot while he went off to another office to make phone calls. He gave us 11 minutes of his time. It took several days to get this photo.)) .Model Released. (1995).
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  • David Chaum, managing director of DigiCash, Amsterdam (31)20-665-2611. The rush is on to buy and sell on the Internet. David Chaum's company has developed a system of digital cash. Buyer's identities are kept secret and by encrypting their account numbers and transaction details, privacy and security are assured. He has developed an experimental currency trial on the Internet using "ecash", which uses "cyberbucks" as its virtual currency.
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  • Industrial Light and Magic. Motion Capture Studio. (1998)
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  • Philip Zimmerman: a data security expert who has written a famous cryptography program for encoding computer communications, at the IT Conference on Computer Freedom and Privacy in San Francisco, California. Zimmermann created a powerful encryption program called "Pretty Good Privacy" (PGP) and made it available for free. Zimmermann is in trouble now because his "cryptography for the masses" slipped out of America via the Internet and has been downloaded by many foreigners. He was being investigated for violating a federal weapons-export-law. (Because it makes it hard for the Feds to eavesdrop on the Internet when people encrypt their messages). Zimmermann was photographed with an encryption code projected on his face in two colors. Model Released. (1995).
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  • Philip Zimmerman: a data security expert who wrote a famous cryptography program for encoding computer communications, at the IT Conference on Computer Freedom and Privacy in San Francisco, California (1995) Zimmermann created a powerful encryption program called "Pretty Good Privacy" (PGP) and made it available for free. Zimmermann is in trouble now because his "cryptography for the masses" slipped out of America via the Internet and has been downloaded by many foreigners. He was being investigated for violating a federal weapons-export-law. (Because it makes it hard for the Feds to eavesdrop on the Internet when people encrypt their messages). Zimmermann was photographed with looking through the encryption code that was printed out on acetate. Model Released. (1995).
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  • IT Conference on computer freedom and privacy in San Francisco, California 1995. Lance Rose, attorney and author of "Netlaw", a book on Internet law (specifically copyright infringement).
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  • Wired magazine. Executive editor, Kevin Kelley in office entry area, wrapped in cables. Model Released. (1996).
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  • Wired Magazine Executive Editor, Kevin Kelley, in the entry area of his office in San Francisco, California, wrapped in black cables. Model Released.  (1996)
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  • Wired Magazine Executive Editor, Kevin Kelley, in the entry area of his office, San Francisco, California. Model Released.  (1996)
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  • Wired Magazine Executive Editor, Kevin Kelley, 1996.
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  • Esther Dyson: an expert on computers, software and investment in the former Soviet bloc, photographed at the IT Conference on computer freedom and privacy in San Francisco, California, (1995).
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  • Bill Gates (born 1955), US business executive and computer engineer. Gates made his fame and fortune in the personal computer boom of the 1980s. His company, Microsoft Corporation, produced operating systems (MS-DOS) and application programs (Windows) that became the World standard for so-called IBM-compatible computers. Microsoft Corporation is the World's leading software company, and Gates himself became the youngest billionaire when he was just 31 years old. (1995).
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  • Walter Bender.  News in the Future.  "The message is the message--especially when the message is news."  Bender is working on "salient stills":  A still image of a video sequence that tells the story in one picture. MODEL RELEASED(1994)
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  • Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT); Cambridge, Massachusettes (MIT)
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  • Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT); Cambridge, Massachusettes (MIT)
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  • The Media Lab building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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  • Marvin Minsky (born 1927), pioneering US computer and artificial intelligence scientist. Minsky studied at Harvard University before embarking on a distinguished career in artificial intelligence and robotics. In 1951 he designed and built with another colleague the first neural network-learning machine, modeled on human brain cells. He later founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and in 1985 co-founded MIT's Media Lab, where he now works as Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences. He is the author of numerous books, both fiction and non-fiction, and inventor of the con- focal scanning microscope. MODEL RELEASED (1994)
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  • Communicating with computers.  Richard Bolt.  Bolt is working on multi-modal interaction using speech, gesture, and gaze.  He is attempting to program computers to interact with their users by non-standard (keyboard, mouse) methods.  Using off the shelf hardware (cyber gloves, head-mounted eye-tracking gear, and magnetic space sensing cubes that are sewn into clothing), he and his students are creating systems whereby a user would not have to be skilled to interact with a computer.  He wants, "normal interaction with the machine--like you would with a human.  This will open the information highway to the world that cannot use computers."  His view of the future includes large screens, flat wall, or holographic screens which "spread-out information in space, like the real world." MODEL RELEASED.(1994)
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  • Mark Weiser (b. 1952), director of research at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), California. One of Silicon Valley's most visionary computer companies, Xerox PARC is the birthplace of the computer workstation, the mouse and the "graphical user interface" - the now universal system of interacting with computers through windows and icons. Mark Weiser worked on ubiquitous computing (?The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.?) After-hours he was the drummer for a rock band called Severe Tire Damage..He died of cancer in (1997)
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  • Silicon Valley, California; At a Palo Alto restaurant, Mark Weiser, head of Xerox Parc research center in purple having dinner with his band called "Severe Tire Damage" before practicing. (1999).
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  • Liveboard conference. Computer scientists use an interactive liveboard - a wall-sized, touch- sensitive computer screen - during a conference in the "beanbag room" at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), California. The liveboard is one of the company's most recent innovations. One of Silicon Valley's most visionary computer companies, Xerox PARC is the birthplace of the computer workstation, the mouse and the "graphical user interface" - the now universal system of interacting with computers through windows and icons..
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  • Roy Want holds his invention - the Xerox parctab. This hand-held, 200-gram prototype allows the user to beam information to a personal computer by writing a series of shorthand-like symbols, each of which represents a letter of the alphabet, on a pressure-sensitive screen. Want is a researcher at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Centre) in California's Silicon Valley. One of the most innovative computer companies in the USA, PARC is the birthplace of the mouse, the computer workstation and the "graphical user interface", the now-universal system of windows and icons that makes it possible for a novice to use a computer. (1995)
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  • IT Conference on computer freedom and privacy in San Francisco, California 1995. Philip Agre of the University of San Diego, California worries about the misuse of "ITS" - Intelligent Transportation Systems - in computers.
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  • Reinhardt Quell using Cassiopeia A-10 personal computer during his ferry commute from San Francisco to Sausalito, California.  Model Released. (1997)
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  • Carl Rosendahl, founder of Pacific Data Images (PDI). His company does computer animation and digital film effects: morphing. 1992 at the office in Sunnyvale, California. In 1996 PDI began collaborating with DreamWorks SKG, which then acquired PDI in 2004. Creating believable 3D animated characters (War Games) and seamless transformations known as morphing ("Black and White" and "She's Mad"), PDI has been at the forefront of computer imagery. The studio pushed the boundaries of morphing in Michael Jackson's video "Black or White" with a sequence of twelve dynamic transformations of moving characters. In the innovative David Byrne video "She's Mad," PDI pioneered the technology called performance animation, capturing the motion of David Byrne and infusing an animated character with his distinctive motion.
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  • Round table discussion at the Berkeley, California home of John Gage, Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems. Model Released. (1998)
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  • Kai Krause, Software Entrepreneur, and the pool of his home in Montecito, California. Model Released, (1997).
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  • Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded in 1982. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley).
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  • Pacific Data Images (PDI) morning conference. The company does computer animation and digital film effects: morphing.  1992 at the office in Sunnyvale, California. In 1996 PDI began collaborating with DreamWorks SKG, which then acquired PDI in 2004. .Creating believable 3D animated characters (War Games) and seamless transformations known as morphing ("Black and White" and "She's Mad"), PDI has been at the forefront of computer imagery. The studio pushed the boundaries of morphing in Michael Jackson's video "Black or White" with a sequence of twelve dynamic transformations of moving characters. In the innovative David Byrne video "She's Mad," PDI pioneered the technology called performance animation, capturing the motion of David Byrne and infusing an animated character with his distinctive motion.
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  • Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded in 1982. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley).
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  • Future kitchen. Professor Mike Hawley (middle) and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, in the 'kitchen of the future' prototype. Here, one of Hawley's colleagues (at left) is holding a 'digital nose' device. This analyses smells from the bowl's contents. It then tells the user (via the computer at center right) how fresh the food is and suggests further ingredients. This is all part of MIT's Counter Intelligence project which includes using computers in food preparation and laying the table, as well as the inclusion of computer-simulated dinner guests. MODEL RELEASED. (1999)
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  • Future kitchen. Professor Mike Hawley (middle) and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, in the 'kitchen of the future' prototype. Here, one of Hawley's colleagues (at left) is holding a 'digital nose' device. This analyses smells from the bowl's contents. It then tells the user (via the computer at centre right) how fresh the food is and suggests further ingredients. This is all part of MIT's Counter Intelligence project which includes using computers in food preparation and laying the table, as well as the inclusion of computer-simulated dinner guests. MODEL RELEASED. (1999)
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  • G. McQueen, senior animator, in his office of Pacific Data Images (PDI) in Sunnyvale, California.  1992. The company does computer animation and digital film effects: morphing. In 1996 PDI began collaborating with DreamWorks SKG, which then acquired PDI in 2004. .Creating believable 3D animated characters (War Games) and seamless transformations known as morphing ("Black and White" and "She's Mad"), PDI has been at the forefront of computer imagery. The studio pushed the boundaries of morphing in Michael Jackson's video "Black or White" with a sequence of twelve dynamic transformations of moving characters. In the innovative David Byrne video "She's Mad," PDI pioneered the technology called performance animation, capturing the motion of David Byrne and infusing an animated character with his distinctive motion. .
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  • K. Schneider, Technical Director, in her office of Pacific Data Images (PDI) in Sunnyvale, California.  1992. The company does computer animation and digital film effects: morphing. In 1996 PDI began collaborating with DreamWorks SKG, which then acquired PDI in 2004. .Creating believable 3D animated characters (War Games) and seamless transformations known as morphing ("Black and White" and "She's Mad"), PDI has been at the forefront of computer imagery. The studio pushed the boundaries of morphing in Michael Jackson's video "Black or White" with a sequence of twelve dynamic transformations of moving characters. In the innovative David Byrne video "She's Mad," PDI pioneered the technology called performance animation, capturing the motion of David Byrne and infusing an animated character with his distinctive motion. .
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  • Video Suite animators working at Pacific Data Images (PDI) in Sunnyvale, California.  1992. The company does computer animation and digital film effects: morphing. In 1996 PDI began collaborating with DreamWorks SKG, which then acquired PDI in 2004. .Creating believable 3D animated characters (War Games) and seamless transformations known as morphing ("Black and White" and "She's Mad"), PDI has been at the forefront of computer imagery. The studio pushed the boundaries of morphing in Michael Jackson's video "Black or White" with a sequence of twelve dynamic transformations of moving characters. In the innovative David Byrne video "She's Mad," PDI pioneered the technology called performance animation, capturing the motion of David Byrne and infusing an animated character with his distinctive motion. .
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  • Kai Krause, Software Entrepreneur, in the dining room of his home in Montecito, California. Model Released. (1997)
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  • This is motion study done on workers.
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  • Napa Computer Bus: In 1983 more than 3,000 school children throughout California's Napa Valley were treated to hands-on experience with ATARI computers. A refurbished school bus with 17 ATARIs on board circulated among the 21 public schools in the district, giving each fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grader several opportunities to work with Atari's PILOT language. An old school bus (circa 1953), provided by the district, was painted red, white and blue and named the Napa Valley Unified School District Computer Lab. The lab accommodated 32 students at a time with each child sharing a 400. Each learning station also included an 11-inch Quasar television for video display and a cassette recorder for storage. The instructor's station was equipped with a disk drive and dot matrix printer as well as a TV and tape recorder. Seen here near an elementary school; traffic patrol guards return to campus from their traffic duty. (1984)
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  • Napa Computer Bus: In 1983 more than 3,000 school children throughout California's Napa Valley were treated to hands-on experience with ATARI computers. A refurbished school bus with 17 ATARIs on board circulated among the 21 public schools in the district, giving each fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grader several opportunities to work with Atari's PILOT language. An old school bus (circa 1953), provided by the district, was painted red, white and blue and named the Napa Valley Unified School District Computer Lab. The lab accommodated 32 students at a time with each child sharing a 400. Each learning station also included an 11-inch Quasar television for video display and a cassette recorder for storage. The instructor's station was equipped with a disk drive and dot matrix printer as well as a TV and tape recorder. Seen here in rural Napa County.
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  • Students seen inside the Napa Computer Bus. In 1983 more than 3,000 school children throughout California's Napa Valley were treated to hands-on experience with ATARI computers. A refurbished school bus with 17 ATARIs on board circulated among the 21 public schools in the district, giving each fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grader several opportunities to work with Atari's PILOT language. An old school bus (circa 1953), provided by the district, was painted red, white and blue and named the Napa Valley Unified School District Computer Lab. The lab accommodated 32 students at a time with each child sharing a 400. Each learning station also included an 11-inch Quasar television for video display and a cassette recorder for storage. The instructor's station was equipped with a disk drive and dot matrix printer as well as a TV and tape recorder. The lab sessions were 45-minutes each and occurred three times within two weeks. (1984)
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  • Portrait of a Northern Californian family at dawn, seen with items they own that contain microprocessor chips. From the One Digital Day book project. (1998)
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  • Portrait of a Northern California family with items having microprocessor chips, all in front of their home at dawn. From the One Digital Day Book.
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  • Portrait of a Northern Californian family at dawn, seen with items that contain microprocessor chips. From the One Digital Day project. (1998)
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  • TV of tomorrow. Long-exposure photograph of a TV monitor being wheeled through a corridor in the MIT Media Lab. The monitor on the left shows researcher Andrew Lippmann. Set up in 1985 at the USA's Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Media Lab aims to invent the multimedia technologies of the future. According to Lippmann and colleagues, tomorrow's TVs will combine computer technology with digital transmission to create an interactive system that could make conventional print and broadcast media redundant. Wall-sized 3-D screens that respond to the human voice could offer millions of TV channels, personalized news and interactive dramas.  (1995)
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  • The Counter Intelligence program at MIT Media Lab in Boston, Massachusetts is focusing on developing a digitally connected kitchen of the future. By exploring new technologies they hope to expand the art of food preparation as well as social interactions in the kitchen. One aspect of their research is to create kitchen utensils that contain memories. In this image a digital scale helps to measure out meals.  Scale built into countertop. While the project is ongoing, these images were shot in 1999. (1999)
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  • Massachusetts's Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge Massachusetts. MIT Media Laboratory: Glorianna Davenport.  Davenport is working on interactive cinema and TV.  She is in an editing room surrounded by images from various sources.  She believes the future of news is "an electronic personal storyteller that knows both you and the information personally.  The story is being told to you, for you."  She wants to have a "media bank," a collection of opinions and different points of view that can be accessed through video. MODEL RELEASED (1994).
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  • The Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Counter Intelligence program at MIT Media Lab in Boston, Massachusetts is focusing on developing a digitally connected kitchen of the future. By exploring new technologies they hope to expand the art of food preparation as well as social interactions in the kitchen. One aspect of their research is to create kitchen utensils that contain memories. In this image a digital nose sniffs a handful of garlic. While the project is ongoing, these images were shot in 1999. Mat Gray (Model Released) with digital nose, which detects aromas and smells. (1999)
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  • William J. Mitchell, Head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) School of Architecture attending a round table talk at the Berkeley, California home of John Gage, Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems. MODEL RELEASED (1998)
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Carver Mead and the Foveon Digital Camera Studio. Mead sits for a portrait with his new camera. Foveon Inc. built a high-end digital still camera that aimed to rival the quality of analog film. The new startup was backed by Carver Mead, the inventor of the gallium-arsenide transistor, the silicon compiler and the artificial retina. Model Released. 1998.
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  • New Life church, Silicon Valley, California; Larry Wall, author of the computer language "Pearl" and musician, at the New Life Church in Cupertino, California, plays the electric organ during a service. Wall references the music via his laptop computer, which accesses the Internet over a wireless modem. He also has the bible on his laptop. Model Released (1998).
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  • USA_SVAL_02_xs.Saint Silicon (Jeffrey Armstrong) founder of world's 1st computer religion Santa Cruz, California. Jeffrey Armstrong, who sometimes works as a stand-up comedian, quit his computer job and went full-time into the marketing of St. Silicon with Rock videos, T-shirts, books, plaques, wall hangings, appearances at computer shows, and plastic replicas of St. Silicon for automobile dashboards.) Model Released (1998).
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  • Apple computer Inc., Cupertino, California; Silicon Valley. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California;.The birthplace of Apple Computers: Steven Jobs parents' house in 1976 at 2066 Crist Drive in Los Altos, California. The operation was started in a bedroom, but soon moved to the garage. (1999).
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  • Sun Microsystems, Silicon Valley, California; Computer server ranch for chip design. (1999).
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  • Sun Microsystems, Silicon Valley, California;.Computer server ranch for chip design. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California. A sculpture made from recycled computers photographed on Observatory Drive, off Mt. Hamilton Road, overlooking the Silicon Valley and downtown San Jose. The houses in the photos are owned by people in high tech business: a high speed networking company that competes with Cisco, an Apple vice-president, and a software company executive. Neighbors volunteered their cars for the photo: Mercedes, Lexus, Corvette, and a second-car Volvo. After the shoot, the wife of the Apple executive asked that we store the sculpture in the two-story atrium of her house where it resided surrounded by a spiral staircase until donated to a museum. (1999).
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  • View from mount Hamilton road "$" sculpture made from recycled computers. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Adobe Systems headquarters in Mountain View near the Silicon Graphics headquarters. (1999).
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  • Sun Microsystems, Silicon Valley, California;.Computer server ranch for chip design, David Yen, executive Vice president, management, Model Released. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Nolan Bushnell, Atari founder at home in Woodside, California, living room. Model Released (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; The Portola Valley Classic, a horse jumping competition sponsored in part by Hewlett Packard, Yahoo, Nasdaq, Mercedes, and Cartier is held at the Portola Valley Training Center, the largest equine boarding facility in Northern California. The grand prize for the competition in 1999 is $25,000. Other prizes consist of sponsor's products. Rider and horse clear over a Yahoo! jump. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; The Portola Valley Classic, a horse jumping competition sponsored in part by Hewlett Packard, Yahoo, Nasdaq, Mercedes, and Cartier is held at the Portola Valley Training Center, the largest equine boarding facility in Northern California. The grand prize for the competition in 1999 is $25,000. Other prizes consist of sponsor's products. Rider and horse clear over a Yahoo! jump. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Deborah Rieman, jumping with trainer at a Stable facility in Portola Valley, California. She was the CEO of an Israeli-founded company Checkpoint, Inc. that became successful designing and selling security firewalls which secure an organization's internal network from external hackers. Model Released (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Deborah Rieman with one of her 6 horses. Deborah Rieman greets her horses Porsche 911 Targa Trade In (white and gray dappled, named from her trade-in that purchased the horse) and Adrenaline Rush (chestnut brown, named for the reaction to riding the horse) before taking them out for warm-up runs and jumps. The horses are two of Deborah's six that are housed at the Breakwell Charlebois Stable facility in Portola Valley, California. Model Released (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Linda Jacobson, Virtual Reality Evangelist at Silicon Graphics, Incorporated, Mountainview, California. Jacobson stands poised over the operations area of one of Silicon Graphics' RealityCenters. The high tech console operates the large wrap-around screen behind her. Jacobson's dream is to be the host of a virtual reality talk show. In the meantime, this former Wired Magazine reporter is content to tout the virtues of Immersive Visualization?the newly coined industry name, she says, for virtual reality. The tangible element of her job at SGI is to manage and market SGI's RealityCenters?facilities designed to do quick representations in a fully interactive graphical interface. These can include virtual factory tours; automobile mock-ups; and mock-up product changes depending on the desires of purchasing company. Model Released (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Timothy C. Draper, 3rd generation venture capitalist, at and on the conference room table of his offices in Redwood City. He plays competitive Frisbee. Model Released (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Buck's restaurant in Woodside, California. Tim Draper (venture capitalist, R.) has breakfast meeting. Early morning breakfast at Bucks Restaurant in Woodside has become the hottest meal in Silicon Valley. It is here that the idea people of the computer industry meet to pitch their projects for the "next big thing" to the money people. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Woodside, California; Jamis MacNivan, owner of Buck's Restaurant in Woodside, THE place to have breakfast meetings with venture capitalists. MacNivan is demonstrating his invention of a catch-and-release fly swatter. He admires Japanese "chindogu" (literally an odd or distorted tool) and showed us a book of 101 un-useless Japanese inventions. Model Released (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Children's Discovery Museum. San Jose, California. Funded by Steve Wosniak, Apple co-founder.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Guy Kawasaki pitches his ideas for garage.com to Tim Draper & Steve Jurvetson. Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson are partners in Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson, one of the leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Tim Draper, venture capitalist, takes Airpower Communications Execs on his boat for a meeting near his office. Tim Draper, a partner in Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson, one of the leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Draper has been very successful lately with Internet start-up companies that have gone public. He says he was responsible for Netscape's free hotmail idea that helped the company be bought by Microsoft for several billion dollars. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Jean-Louis Gassee, President and C.E.O. of Be Software, a start-up company in Palo Alto that was trying to sell Apple it's new operating system. Gassee showed us his outfit for dealing with venture capitalists: kneepads and a bottle of mouthwash. Model Released (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Start-up asimba.com; CEO Scott Hublou (on right) biking, Los Altos, Iron-man training 6:50 am. (1999).
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  • Scott Hublou (M.R.), Founder and CEO of ASIMBA.com, a Silicon Valley start-up. Training for Iron-man in his cramped office, he is able to do email at the same time. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; 9:15 PM Driving south on Highway 101, C.E.O. Scott Hublou returns voice mail on his cell phone. Scott is returning to the Asimba.com office in Mountain View, California after an evening run. Scott is preparing for an upcoming Ironman competition for which he trains twice a day. Model Released (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Start-up ASIMBA.com; New office. Scott Hublou, CEO; Stretches before am evening run 7:40 pm. Model Released (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Icarian Corporation Software CEO; Doug Merritt, talking on phone in his office, 9 am. Model Released (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Icarian Corporation Software; 4 PM: CEO Doug Merritt meets with three employees to strategize on an internal program to instill company values in their employees. The ping pong table they are meeting over was Icarian's first meeting table. All of Icarian's employees are ranked according to their ping-pong ability and there is a "ladder" of their ranking posted on the web. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Icarian corporation software; 5:18 PM: Doug Merritt and Rani Hublou, the husband and wife team that leads Icarian, Inc. and the Icarian workforce in the company's Sunnyvale, California office. Merritt says that Icarian is managed so as to be a fun place to work. This is exemplified by the company-wide Friday afternoon in-line-skate hockey competitions that are held in the parking lot. Usually they drink beer from the company keg in the company lunchroom after the game but since this was the beginning of the Fourth of July weekend, everyone went home after the game at 6 PM. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Romana Machado being photographed for her "Peek of the week" web site where she sells nude pictures of herself. Model released. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Intel museum; Santa Clara, California. Clean room display A "clean" room display at the Intel Museum at Intel's corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley, California. 220 Mission College Boulevard, Santa, Clara, CA 95052. Tel (408)765-0503. The museum has hands on displays to teach about computers and chip-making. Model Released (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Stanford University.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Menlo Park, California; Marlene Wood reading the newspaper on a park bench with her dog Benji before she opens her antique shop in downtown Menlo Park. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Jay Eisenlohr, VP of marketing for Rendition Software of Mountain View, maker of 3-D graphic chips for games. Eisenlohr in his living room playing an on-line racing game while his wife and daughter watch TV (classic old US TV shows on Nickelodeon). Model Released. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Timothy C. Draper 3rd generation venture capitalist in office, Redwood City. Model Released.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; "Saint Silicon" is the founder of the world's first computer religion in Santa Cruz, California. He preaches out the top of his limousine from his Binary Bible Jeffrey Armstrong, who sometimes works as a stand-up comedian, quit his computer job and went full-time into the marketing of St. Silicon with Rock videos, T-shirts, books, plaques, wall hangings, appearances at computer shows, and plastic replicas of St. Silicon for automobile dashboards..
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Palo Alto, radio telescopes at Stanford University.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Immigrant naturalization ceremony Downtown San Jose. Adjacent to the Civic Auditorium. On this day more than 800 people became US citizens. (1999).
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  • Sand Hill Challenge Soap Box Derby in Menlo Park, California. Silicon Valley.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Saint Silicon "Saint Silicon" is the founder of the world's first computer religion in Santa Cruz, California. He preaches out the top of his limousine from his Binary Bible Jeffrey Armstrong, who sometimes works as a stand-up comedian, quit his computer job and went full-time into the marketing of St. Silicon with Rock videos, T-shirts, books, plaques, wall hangings, appearances at computer shows, and plastic replicas of St. Silicon for automobile dashboards. Model Released.
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  • Hewlett Packard Museum, Palo Alto, California; Karen Lewis, museum archivist, with 1st wrist calculator. Model Released. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; farms to factories: moving a house from new business park near San Jose airport to make room for commercial buildings.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Silicon Graphics Headquarters, in Mountain View. 900,000 square feet on 21.6 acres leased from the City of Mountain View. Architect was Studios Architecture in San Francisco. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Redwood City, California, Oracle Headquarters. (1999).
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  • The Hewlett-Packard Garage at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto, California. This is California Historic Landmark 976. This garage is the birthplace of the world's first high-technology region, 'Silicon Valley'. The idea for such a region originated with Dr. Frederick Terman, a Stanford University Professor who encouraged his students to start up their own electronics companies in the area rather than joining established firms in the East. The first two students to follow his advice were William R. Hewlett and David Packard, who in 1938 began developing their first product, an audio oscillator, in this garage. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Children's Discovery Museum. Downtown San Jose, California. Funded by Stephen Wozniak, Apple co-founder. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Woodside home owned by absentee Hong Kong businessman. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California. A sculpture made from recycled computers photographed on Observatory Drive, off Mt. Hamilton Road, overlooking the Silicon Valley and downtown San Jose. The houses in the photos are owned by people in high tech business: a high speed networking company that competes with Cisco, an Apple vice-president, and a software company executive. Neighbors volunteered their cars for the photo: Mercedes, Lexus, Corvette, and a second-car Volvo. After the shoot, the wife of the Apple executive asked that we store the sculpture in the two story atrium of her house where it resided surrounded by a spiral staircase until donated to a museum. (1999).
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  • Internet Shop Communications. Internet software; Stephan Shambach, 27, president and CEO drives to San Francisco from his San Mateo home. He often stops on I280 to make phone calls or read papers in his Mustang convertible. Model Released (1999).
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  • Stephan Shambach, 27, President and C.E.O. of Intershop Communications, a company that develops software for Internet shopping sites. San Francisco. Model Released (1999).
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