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...make films for half or a third of the cost," Lucas told TIME. "The film industry still has to go through the Internet phase." Lucas and his colleagues pioneered the first nonlinear digital-editing systems, started Pixar in 1983 and developed the first computer-animation systems, which led to breakout hits like Toy Story and Finding Nemo. Hewlett-Packard plans to deliver 1,000 workstations and high-end storage equipment for producing video games and visual effects. Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron 64-bit processors drive Letterman's computer network, the entertainment industry's largest. As a result, one digital artist...
...larger than any portable game system. The video-grabbing apparatus is actually a separate piece of hardware that you plug in on top of the unit, and it has video input as well as output, so you can watch what you're doing on a regular TV screen. The breakout box also has a jack for an infrared wire, for use in changing channels on your cable...
...epic personality conflict that might make a good movie: The Wizard of Woz vs. King Pong. Right now, though, the two share the same electronic daydreams of ever smarter toys. They worked together once before, in 1974, when Bushnell hired Wozniak, then 23, to design a video game called Breakout, which became an early hit. They kept in touch over the years and started talking about the current partnership a month ago at a barbecue in the backyard of Bushnell's Woodside, Calif., home. Wozniak observed his two children, ages 1 and 3, playing with some of Axlon's robot...
Immediately, Herrmann displayed breakout potential. In his first start, a March 13 appearance at the indoor Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, the junior shut out Minnesota—a team that would finish with a winning record in the Big Ten—over six innings in an eventual...
...running back Clifton Dawson provided the Crimson with a matchless ground game, ultimately racking up multiple school records in the process. Kicker Matt Schindel stabilized a notoriously shoddy Crimson kicking game in just his first year on the team. Senior wide receiver Brian Edwards, on the heels of a breakout season the year before, made the Harvard special teams into his own private highlight reel—including four returns for touchdowns. Future NFL draftee and Ivy Player of the Year Fitzpatrick, with pro scouts watching his every move, kept his focus and provided the team with unquantifiable leadership...