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The Story Behind Pixar’s RenderMan CGI Software

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From Utah and NYIT to Lucasfilm As a doctoral student studying computer science at the University of Utah , in Salt Lake City, Catmull developed the principle of texture mapping, a method for adding complexity to a computer-generated surface. Hanrahan helped refine shading language concepts as well.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.” The nodes rolled out later that year: at UCLA in September; the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in October; the University of California, Santa Barbara , in November; and the University of Utah in December. I went out to pay for the conference room,” Kahn says.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. will conduct a one-year “proof-of-concept seedling” program. Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Some of these real-world offspring, like the Apple Lisa computer and the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer, took many of their root concepts from PARC; others, like the Ada computer language and the Intel 1103 dynamic RAM chip, are less closely related. What an ideal concept that would be for Xerox.

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