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One of the companies he started, Information International, played a significant role in the history of computer graphics: https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/grap
by mepian 3y ago
One of the companies he started, Information International, played a significant role in the history of computer graphics: https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/graphicshistory/chapter/6-3-information-international-inc-triple-i/ https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/graphicshistory/chapter/6-3...
An interview with Ed Fredkin during the Triple-I Reunion October 14th, 2014: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZKOq5_Vcp4GGdZHCzKzr38h9MhkIqVJT https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZKOq5_Vcp4GGdZHCzKzr...
- masswerk 3y agoI believe, Triple-I was initially founded as an AI firm, powered by Ed Fredkin's own PDP-1. (I guess, since the first commercial CAD system by Itek and Adams Associates was also on a PDP-1, the transition happened quite naturally. Ben Gurley, the PDP-1's designer, who tragically happened to be shot at the family dinner table in 1963, was also at Tripple-I at the time. Ed Fredkin was quite fanatic about the PDP-1 and probably its best ambassador. He also chaired the PDP-1 restoration project at the CHM.)
- MaysonL 3y agoI worked at iii in the late ‘70s, and my desk was in the cubicle next to the movie group’s. I loved looking over the divider to look at the latest pictures from Westworld (Yul Brinner with a photogrammetry grid) or Tron, or a teapot. Fun stuff.
- jacquesm 3y agoWestworld (the old one) was absolutely groundbreaking.
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