Interval Research Corporation Interval Research Corporation Company type Research think tank Industry Research and Development Founded 1992 Defunct 2000 Fate Dissolved Headquarters Palo Alto , U.S. Key people
Paul Allen (Chairman)David Liddle (CEO, President)Number of employees
More than 110[ 1]
Interval Research Corporation was founded in 1992 by Paul Allen and David Liddle . It was a Palo Alto laboratory and technology incubator focusing on consumer product applications and services with a focus on the Internet.[ 2]
A 1997 version of the company's web page described itself as "a research setting seeking to define the issues, map out the concepts and create the technology that will be important in the future.... [pursuing] basic innovations in a number of early-stage technologies and [seeking] to foster industries around them – sparking opportunity for entrepreneurs and highlighting a new approach to research." .[ 3]
A 1999 Wired magazine[ 4] Interval Media to continue a few specific projects. Interval Media was closed in June, 2006.
During its brief existence, Interval employed many well-known computer technology pioneers and experts, including:
Denise Caruso , technology journalistFranklin C. Crow , inventor of important anti-aliasing techniquesSally Cruikshank , filmmaker and animatorMarc Davis , founder of Yahoo! Research BerkeleyTrevor Darrell , faculty at University of California, Berkeley and co-inventor of Caffe Paul Debevec , computer graphics researcherBruce Donald , geometer and animation researcher (computer graphics), co-inventor (with Tom Ngo) of Embedded Constraint Graphics[ 5] [ 6] Caterina Fake , co-founder of Flickr and Hunch Rolf Faste , Stanford design professor, who led the team that named the corporation "Interval Research"Lee Felsenstein , designer of the first mass-produced portable computerPaul Freiberger , Silicon Valley journalistRussell Ginns , game designer and authorDon Hopkins , new-media artist, The Sims developer and pie menu interface designerDan Ingalls , inventor of BitBLT and architect of several Smalltalk implementationsBrenda Laurel , author, entrepreneur, virtual-reality artistGolan Levin , new-media artistDaniel Levitin , cognitive neuroscientist, best-selling authorDavid Liddle , venture capitalistMax Mathews , acoustician, computer music pioneerMichael Naimark , new-media artistJohn R. Pierce , electrical engineer, pioneer in satellite telecommunication and a refiner of the original traveling wave tubeDavid P. Reed , inventor of TCP/IPDean Radin , a parapsychologistRobert Shaw , physicist and chaos theory pioneerDick Shoup , computer graphics pioneerMalcolm Slaney , research scientist at Google , IEEE Fellow Gillian Crampton Smith , founder of the Computer-Related Design program at the Royal College of Art in London, and the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea, Italy.Scott Snibbe , new-media artistRussell Targ , a physicist and parapsychologistBill Verplank , interface designer of the Xerox Star , the first WIMP (computing) GUILeo Villareal , installation artist and Burning Man board member[ 7] Terry Winograd , emeritus professor of computer science at Stanford University
References
^ Searcey, Dionne (August 28, 2010). "Microsoft Co-Founder Launches Patent War" . The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 2010-08-28 . ^ "WTO Board Bio: David Liddle" . Archived from the original on 2007-03-11.^ Interval Research Corporation – About – Page (From:13-November-1996)^ Bass, Thomas A. (Dec 1999). "Think Tanked" . Wired . Wired Magazine. Retrieved 20 April 2010 . ^ System for Image Manipulation and Animation Using Embedded Constraint Graphics. J. T. Ngo and B. R. Donald. U.S. Patent #5,933,150, issued August 3, 1999. ^ Accessible Animation and Customizable Graphics via Simplicial Configuration Modeling. T. Ngo, D. Cutrell, J. Dana, B. R. Donald, L. Loeb, and S. Zhu. Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH (New Orleans) July, 2000, pp. 403–410. ^ "Board of Directors" .
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