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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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The phrase refers to an individual who had made serious contributions to a domain, while also possessing multiple, and often diverse, talents and pursuits. As Sutherland put it in his thesis , “The Sketchpad system makes it possible for a man and a computer to converse rapidly through the medium of line drawings.

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

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One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories. The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people.

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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. Bob Kahn graduated from high school in 1955.

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