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There's a porous nature, too, to the company's power structure. Swapping ideas, stepping in, hanging out are at the root of what has to be called the Pixar culture. The studio has working methods more in common with the dotcom companies in nearby Silicon Valley than with the movie industry down in Los Angeles. For a start, everyone who works there, from the executives to the cooks at Luxo Cafe (try the excellent sushi), is encouraged to take a filmmaking class and make a short film. This is part of Pixar president Ed Catmull's belief in "lifelong...
Solar power is now three to four times more expensive than fossil-fuel energy, but the ultra-efficient black silicon chip could reduce that cost substantially...
Harvard missed the chance to file a basic patent on the process of developing black silicon. When the scope of the discovery’s applications became clear in the year that followed that meeting, the University scrambled to patent a more narrow application of the process. It is not clear how much money Harvard forfeited...
...that one would think of as peers, and that was because [other schools] had a larger budget for that purpose,” Brinton says. That meant Brinton’s office had to pass on some licensing opportunities—including some potentially lucrative patents such as black silicon...
When SiOnyx, a company co-founded by Mazur, negotiated a licensing agreement with Harvard over the narrower black silicon patent, the process was a trying...