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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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