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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) The Questor Tapes (1974) Demon Seed (1977) Blade Runner (1982) Tron (1982) WarGames (1983) Brainstorm (1983) 2010 (1984) HAL 9000; SAL 9000; Hide and Seek (1984, TV movie) Electric Dreams (1984) The Terminator (1984) Terminator; Skynet; D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) Flight of the ...
After leaving CERN in late 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, Dorset. [29] He ran the company's technical side for three years. [30] The project he worked on was a "real-time remote procedure call" which gave him experience in computer networking. [29] In 1984, he returned to CERN as a fellow. [28]
The Man Who Invented the Computer is a 2010 historical biography by author Jane Smiley about American physicist John Vincent Atanasoff and the invention of the computer. The book follows Atanasoff as he collaborates with others to develop the 1942 Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC), the first electronic digital computing device.
The Colossus computer they built goes unmentioned by name in the film, although there is an implicit suggestion that Turing was responsible for it, which he was not. [ 88 ] The scene where the Hut 8 team decides not to use broken codes to stop a German raid on a convoy that the brother of one of the code breakers ( Peter Hilton ) is serving on ...
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385527132. OCLC 502029794 – via Internet Archive. Media. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Hollar, John (January 27, 2011). Revolutionaries: The Man Who Invented the Computer with Author Jane Smiley. YouTube (video).
First use of character animation in a computer-animated television series. The Crow: 1994 First deceased actor (Brandon Lee) to be re-created through CGI. The Flintstones: First CGI-rendered fur. [35] The Mask: First use of CGI to transform a live actor into a photorealistic cartoon character. ReBoot: First half-hour computer-animated TV series ...
On September 30, 2013, he appeared along with early Apple employees Daniel Kottke and Andy Hertzfeld on the television show John Wants Answers to discuss the movie Jobs. [169] In April 2021, Wozniak became a panelist for the new TV series Unicorn Hunters, [170] a business investment show from the makers of the series The Masked Singer. [171] [172]
The NeXT Computer was introduced in 1988 at a lavish launch event. Using the NeXT Computer, Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, the WorldWideWeb. The NeXT Computer's operating system, named NeXTSTEP, begat Darwin, which is now the foundation of most of Apple's operating systems such as Macintosh's macOS and iPhone's iOS. [268 ...