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Underwritten in part with a $40,000 grant from Atari, "Video Games and Human Development: A Research Agenda for the '80s" represented one of the first attempts to organize the nascent and often flimsy research done on the subject so far. Typical of the early studies are interviews with nearly 1,000 young people in Los Angeles video arcades, undertaken by David Brooks, an instructor at the University of Southern California. Brooks told the Harvard meeting that most of the youngsters were average or above average students and that they rarely played hooky from school...
...conference was organized in February at the suggestion of executives of Atari. Inc., a major force in the video game industry. Atari donated, $40,000 to help pay for the conference. Through a subsidiary body, the Atari Institute for Educational Action Research, the company also distributes grants for video game-related research...
...lured several officers away from major American corporations. Apple, a pioneer in personal computers, has hired a new chief executive: John Sculley, 44, who was president of Pepsi-Cola. Osborne, the leading maker of portable computers, recruited as its chief executive Robert Jaunich, 43, former president of Consolidated Foods. Atari, a strong force in home computers as well as video games, has snared a string of executives from such companies as Polaroid and Bristol-Myers...
...LINE LIBERALS, suspicious of his deviation from orthodoxy, have lumped Hart together with other "high-tech" Democrats under cute labels like "neo-liberals." "Atari Democrats," and "technopols," and have suggested that Hart is "not a real liberal." This is inaccurate and unfair. Hart has continually emphasized his support for traditional liberal ideals. "The litmus test for a democratic society," he contends in his recent book, A New Democracy, "is equality--both equality of rights and equality of opportunity...
...during the Korean War, Hwang served in the South Korean army before coming to the U.S. In 1976, when he started TeleVideo in his northern California garage, he had trouble finding backers. Some friends chipped in enough to keep him going after he won a small contract to supply Atari with video monitors for its electronic games...