Word: jaron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has long delayed entering the 1970's, and the lack of accountability enjoyed by the University's top governing body is the reason. The selection of the next president is too important a decision to be left to them alone. Jaron Bourke Director of Harvard Watch
...Jaron Bourke '88, the director of Harvard Watch, said the findings demonstrate the "very narrow range of extra-mural interests" and call into question the committee's priorities...
Harvard Watch Director Jaron Bourke '88 said that his organization is scanning the histories of potential presidential candidates for corporate ties, private club memberships and other revealing details...
...real center of attention is Jaron Lanier, 30, the programmer who coined the term virtual reality and co-founded VPL in 1985. A legendary eccentric in a field famous for its oddballs, he grew up in a New Mexico desert, dropped out of high school to take up music composition and eventually drifted into video games, earning a reputation as a prodigious hacker. Amiable and rotund, he sports shoulder-length dreadlocks that make him look more like a Rastafarian reggae singer than a computer scientist...
...ultra-realistic computer graphics widely seen in TV ads, network news shows, science-fiction movies and theme-park rides. A computer-generated backdrop for a Hollywood film may take more than two years to create; Lanier claims he can make whole virtual-reality "worlds" in less than two hours. "Jaron Lanier has created a wave of revulsion in the industry," says the president of one computer-graphics firm. "He's promising something that will never be delivered...