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Jaron Lanier
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American computer scientist, musician, and author
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Jaron Lanier is a United States computer scientist, composer, programmer, and writer. Born in New York City in 1960, he was educated at New Mexico State University and was influenced by Marvin Minsky. His professional career includes positions at Columbia University, Atari, Inc., Silicon Graphics, and Microsoft. He works primarily in the field of computer science and speaks English.
Lanier is recognized as a Time 100 honoree and received the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association. His notable works include *Contra el rebaño digital*, *¿Quién controla el futuro?*, and *Dez Argumentos Para Você Deletar Agora Suas Redes Sociais*. He is also associated with tags such as cyberpunk and has been active in the United States.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 3 may 1960
- Works
- 20
Top works
- 10 аргументов удалить все свои аккаунты в социальных сетях
- Contra el rebaño digital
- ¿Quién controla el futuro?
- ¿Quién controla el futuro?
- Dez Argumentos Para Você Deletar Agora Suas Redes Sociais
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Film & TV
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of classical music. A pioneer in the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a…
Known for
- The Social Dilemma — Self2020
- Retro Tech — Self - Eye Phone Inventor (archive footage)2019
- Reich: Three Tales — Self2002
- Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek2000
- Synthetic Pleasures — Self1995
- Kulturzeit — self1995
- Cyberpunk — Himself1990
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 823
- Total plays
- 5,341
Tags
Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author.He was a pioneer in, and popularized the term "Virtual Reality" (VR) in the early 1980s. At that time, he founded VPL Research, the first company to sell VR products. His current appointments include Interdisciplinary Scholar-in-Residence, CET, UC Berkeley. As a musician, Lanier has been active in the world of new classical music since the late 1970s. He is a pianist and a specialist in many unusual music
Key facts
- Born
- Jaron Zepel Lanier , ( 1960-05-03 ) May 3, 1960 (age 66) , New York City , U.S.
- Education
- New Mexico State University
- Occupations
- Computer scientist, composer, visual artist, author
- Employer s
- Atari , Advanced Network and Services , VPL Research , Silicon Graphics , Columbia University , New York University , Microsoft
- Known for
- Co-founder of Virtual reality
- Website
- www .jaronlanier .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Occupation
- visual artist
- Educated at
- New Mexico State University
- Employer
- Microsoft
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- computer science
- Official website
- www.jaronlanier.com
- Image
- Jaron Lanier 1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Jaron Lanier
- date of birth
- 1960-05-03
- name in native language
- Jaron Zepel Lani
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- influenced by
- Marvin Minsky
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Jaron Zepel Lanier (/ˈdʒeɪrɪn lɪˈnɪər/, born May 3, 1960) is an American computer scientist, futurist, and composer. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and wired gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and various universities. In 2006, he began to work at Microsoft, and from 2009 has worked at Microsoft Research as an Interdisciplinary Scientist.
Lanier has composed contemporary classical music and is a collector of rare instruments (of which he owns one to two thousand); his acoustic album, Instruments of Change (1994) features Asian wind and string instruments such as the khene mouth organ, the suling flute, and the sitar-like esraj. Lanier worked with Mario Grigorov to compose the soundtrack to the documentary film The Third Wave (2007).
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