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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Inventor and Macarthur foundation winner Ralph Hotchkiss in his Oakland, California, workshop designing wheelchairs. Hotchkiss is himself confined to a wheelchair. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • This is motion study done on workers.
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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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  • Kai Krause, Software Entrepreneur, and the pool of his home in Montecito, California. Model Released, (1997).
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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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  • Wired Magazine Executive Editor, Kevin Kelley, 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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  • 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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  • Skycar. M400 Skycar, developed by Paul Moller, founder and CEO of Moller International in Davis, California. According to Moller, it is able to be driven as a normal car, but also has four large turbofans, which provide the thrust to lift it into the air. Once in the air, the fans turn backwards to propel the skycar like an airplane. The Moller team says it will be able to reach speeds of up to 375 miles (600 kilometers) per hour. A computer will actually control the craft, meaning it will require little training. It contains 4160 HP (rotary) freedom engines. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Skycar. M400 Skycar, developed by Paul Moller, founder and CEO of Moller International in Davis, California. According to Moller, it is able to be driven as a normal car, but also has four large turbofans, which provide the thrust to lift it into the air. Once in the air, the fans turn backwards to propel the skycar like an airplane. The Moller team says it will be able to reach speeds of up to 375 miles (600 kilometers) per hour. A computer will actually control the craft, meaning it will require little training. It contains 4160 HP (rotary) freedom engines.
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  • Skycar. M400 Skycar, developed by Paul Moller, founder and CEO of Moller International in Davis, California. According to Moller, it is able to be driven as a normal car, but also has four large turbofans, which provide the thrust to lift it into the air. Once in the air, the fans turn backwards to propel the skycar like an airplane. The Moller team says it will be able to reach speeds of up to 375 miles (600 kilometers) per hour. A computer will actually control the craft, meaning it will require little training. It contains 4160 HP (rotary) freedom engines. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Skycar. M400 Skycar, developed by Paul Moller, founder and CEO of Moller International in Davis, California. According to Moller, it is able to be driven as a normal car, but also has four large turbofans, which provide the thrust to lift it into the air. Once in the air, the fans turn backwards to propel the skycar like an airplane. The Moller team says it will be able to reach speeds of up to 375 miles (600 kilometers) per hour. A computer will actually control the craft, meaning it will require little training. It contains 4160 HP (rotary) freedom engines. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Skycar. M400 Skycar, developed by Paul Moller, founder and CEO of Moller International in Davis, California. According to Moller, it is able to be driven as a normal car, but also has four large turbofans, which provide the thrust to lift it into the air. Once in the air, the fans turn backwards to propel the skycar like an airplane. The Moller team says it will be able to reach speeds of up to 375 miles (600 kilometers) per hour. A computer will actually control the craft, meaning it will require little training. It contains 4160 HP (rotary) freedom engines.
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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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  • 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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  • Kai Krause, Software Entrepreneur, in the dining room 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Industrial Light and Magic. Motion Capture Studio. (1998)
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  • Skycar. M400 Skycar, developed by Paul Moller, founder and CEO of Moller International in Davis, California. According to Moller, it is able to be driven as a normal car, but also has four large turbofans, which provide the thrust to lift it into the air. Once in the air, the fans turn backwards to propel the skycar like an airplane. The Moller team says it will be able to reach speeds of up to 375 miles (600 kilometers) per hour. A computer will actually control the craft, meaning it will require little training. It contains 4160 HP (rotary) freedom engines. MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • 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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  • Skycar. M400 Skycar, developed by Paul Moller, founder and CEO of Moller International in Davis, California. According to Moller, it is able to be driven as a normal car, but also has four large turbofans, which provide the thrust to lift it into the air. Once in the air, the fans turn backwards to propel the skycar like an airplane. The Moller team says it will be able to reach speeds of up to 375 miles (600 kilometers) per hour. A computer will actually control the craft, meaning it will require little training. It contains 4160 HP (rotary) freedom engines. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Micro Technology: University of California, Berkeley: Computer room in Soda Hall. Professor Randy H. Katz. Randy Katz is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He was instrumental in the development of the RAID concept for computer storage.. Model Released. [2000]
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  • Rod MacGregor, president and CEO of NanoMuscle, Inc. standing behind Life cycle testers: NanoMuscles are cycled continuously on these testers for months at a time to prove reliability. NanoMuscles are rated at one million cycles, but some samples have exceeded 12 million cycles and are still running. NanoMuscle, a California company headed by Scotsman Rod MacGregor, makes miniature motors, which are smaller and lighter than the conventional electric devices that go into everyday products such as digital cameras and CD players. Model Released
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  • Dr. Ing. Giuliano Cozzari, one of the innovative engineers in the 1980's at Fiat, in Turin, Italy. Designed Robogate. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Professor Robert J. Full's Poly-PEDAL Lab at UC Berkeley has been working with roboticists for years, supplying them with information on small animal locomotion that is used to conStruct innovative robots. Recently, the Lab has been working with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), testing and evaluating artificial muscles. Dr. Kenneth Meijer (from Holland) compares and measures a Stanford Artificial Muscle with a natural one from the leg of the Death Head Cockroach. After cooling the cockroach and exposing leg extensor muscle number 179, an electrode is suctioned into the muscle to simulate the nerve-to-muscle connection. Published in Stern Magazine, February 11th, 2000.
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  • Though tentative at first, brother and sister Taichi (3, at left) and Shino (5) warm up to the robot ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) and agree to stand close enough to get a good look at the small stature robot after a performance at Suzuka City, Japan. Honda's walking robot, called ASIMO, is child-sized and has more maneuverability than it's predecessor, the Honda P3. Pictured here at Suzuka City, Japan, amusement complex..
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  • Virtual Reality: Rick Walsh, director for the Resource Center for the Handicapped in Seattle, has an office that he runs with voice command activated computers. He is working with the Human Interface Technology Lab on innovative uses of Virtual Reality for the handicapped. Model Released
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  • Professor Robert J. Full, in front of a poster of a ghost crab, in his Poly-PEDAL biology lab at UC Berkeley. Full studies animal locomotion on miniaturized treadmills, using hi-speed imaging and force measurements to map out how these creatures actually propel themselves. Cockroaches, crabs, geckos, centipedes have all been studied intently. Full's Poly-PEDAL Lab at UC Berkeley has been working with roboticists for years, supplying them with information on small animal locomotion that is used to construct innovative robots. UC Berkeley, CA, USA.
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  • ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility), is the newest addition to the Honda Humanoid Robot family. It is on display daily at Suzuka City Circuit, where young and old converge to watch racing, ride amusement park rides, and also watch this child-sized robot introduced by a beauty queen walk, wave, and dance four times daily. The press literature for ASIMO states "By helping people, and becoming their partners, Honda robots are opening the door to the 21st Century." Honda R&D expects that "ASIMO will help improve life in human society.".
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  • In Suzuka City, Japan, ASIMO, (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility), a humanoid robot designed by Honda stands with the Suzuka Circuit Queen, and waves to the audience. Honda's walking robot, is child-sized and has more maneuverability than it's predecessor, the Honda P3. Unlike the P3, which couldn't be stopped once it began it's programmed routine, ASIMO can be controlled by either joystick or computer program. Pictured here at Suzuka City (a race track and amusement park), Japan.
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