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Reunion of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (S.A.I.L.)

Posted in Apple, Bell, DEC, Gaming, High Tech History, Internet, MIT, Microsoft, Stanford on December 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Reunited at Stanford University.

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1982 DEC Documentary on Entering the PC Market (Or Not)

Posted in DEC, High Tech History, tagged , , on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

1982 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Documentary on Entering the PC Market (Or Not)

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R.I.P. 2009: Circuit City, Geocities, SiCortex

Posted in DEC, IBM, Sun, venture capital on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Rest in Peace Circuit City, Geocities, and SiCortex.

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Digital Co-Founder Writes Autobiography

Posted in DEC, MIT, tagged on October 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Digital Equipment Corporation co-founder, Harlan E. Anderson, has written his autobiography which will be released in November, 2009. The title is “Learn, Earn, and Return: My Life as a Computer Pioneer. “

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Aulikki Olsen, wife of DEC co-founder Ken Olsen, dies at 84

Posted in DEC on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Eeva-Liisa Aulikki Olsen, 84, died March 2, 2009.

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Kalah – the first remotely played computer game

Posted in DEC, Gaming, tagged , on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Digital Equipment Corporations’s “Space War”, which I’ve previously discussed, was not the only technologically ground-breaking game made interactive on DEC’s PDP-1 computer.

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Droidmaker, by Michael Rubin

Posted in DEC, Lucasfilms, Sun, tagged , , , , , on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution, a history of Lucasfilm’s Computer Group – more popularly known as the “Droid Works” – is a painstakingly researched chronicle of how George Lucas and his motion-picture production company, Lucasfilm, became pioneers in computer graphics.

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One of the very first video games: “Space Wars”

Posted in DEC, MIT, tagged , , on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

One of the very first video games “Space Wars” was built on a DEC computer.

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A (virtual) chat with Alvy Ray Smith

Posted in DEC, Lucasfilms, Pixar, tagged , , , , , on October 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Alvy Ray Smith has an illustrious background in high-tech, as the first head of computer graphics at Lucasfilm, a co-founder of Pixar animation, and a founder of Altamira, which was purchased by Microsoft in 1994.

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