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...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...
...everyone is so content with the end result. Jaron Bourke '88, director of the Ralph Nader-sponsored group Harvard Watch, has sent letters to President Derek C. Bok and the heads of the Harvard hospitals criticizing the guidelines for their flexibility. He says that even under the new guidelines, Harvard's researchers are still not accountable to the public...
...Jaron Bourke '88, director of the Ralph Nader-sponsored group Harvard Watch, said he hand delivered letters to each hospital, urging board members to consider a more restrictive policy...
...Jaron R. Bourke '89, a literature major, won a Hoopes Prize for his thesis titled, "Presenting History and Historicizing the Present: Bakhtin and His World of Language, Ideology, and Interpretation," an analysis of the works of the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin...
...last month two of their own, John Lasseter and William Reeves of Pixar, a computer manufacturer in San Rafael, Calif., won the first Academy Award given for a totally computer-generated film -- a short subject called Tin Toy that starred a rambunctious baby and a windup music man. Says Jaron Lanier, founder of VPL Research, a small Redwood City, Calif., company that makes the equipment used to help people enter a computer-generated world: "This is the year that this stuff is finally starting to work...