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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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