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- Photos: Oscar nods for ILM, Skywalker
- The 2007 Academy Award contenders are named, and Lucasfilm divisions Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound nab six technical nominations. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Lucasfilm, Photograph, Nomination, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-01-24
- Lucasfilm announces online video tools for usergen mash-ups
- I am talking about Lucasfilm, as in George Lucas, as in Star Wars. Television trade pub TVWeek notes today that Lucasfilm has partnered with Eyespot, a company providing online video tools that users can use to create the so-called mash-ups. The tools have just gone up...
- Tags: General, News
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- A tour of Lucasfilm data center
- When a dozen petabytes is not enoughCNET's Veronica Belmont toured the cutting-edge data center at Lucasfilm in San Francisco. From Web sites to e-mail to graphic rendering, all the bytes pass through here at this high-tech movie production company.
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Lucasfilm, data center
- Videos 2007-01-27
- Lucasfilm's need for speed: 11.38 petabits per second
- Lucasfilm's need for speed: 11.38 petabits per secondProgressWow. And to think, my first computer, fully tricked out, had 5MB hard disk space, a 128k RAM drive, and 48K of usable RAM. It had a whopping 15 colors out of the box and 256 after upgrades. All built around a 3.3MHz...
- Tags: Now IT, Lucasfilm
- Discussion threads 2007-01-26
- Lucasfilm's need for speed: 11.38 petabits per second
- Lucasfilm is one of the more bandwidth hungry operations in the world. Daniel Terdiman of news.com visited the companys 10,000 square foot data center, which has an aggregate capacity of 11.38 petabit per second, which translates to one-gigabit-per-second desktops. Lucasfilms data center costs for keeping its effects people from waiting...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Entertainment, Storage
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
- Inside the Lucasfilm data center
- Inside the Lucasfilm data centerIs it running Linux?The special effects produced by ILM are rendered on Linux workstations. ZDnet didn't even mention this fact when they did an article on ILM's special effects processing. Now we have an article in which ZDnet cover the datacentre- and again, completely fail to...
- Tags: Operating systems, 64-bit, data center, Desktop Support, ILM, Lucasfilm, Linux, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Unix, Microsoft Windows, job
- Discussion threads 2007-01-26
- Photos: The computing power behind ILM's magic
- Lucasfilm open up the doors of its data center to reveal an impressive array of servers and storage devices.
- Tags: Lucasfilm, computing, server, storage, storage device, data center
- Image galleries 2007-01-26
- The Lucasfilm force is with HP
- The Lucasfilm force is with HPBig score...Big score for HP, AMD and Linux.
- Tags: Linux, Big Score, Lucasfilm, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2005-08-25
- Photos: Lucasfilm's new home
- Art, technology and politics intersected in San Francisco as big names from each world feted the new home of "Star Wars" director George Lucas.
- Tags: Lucasfilm, Star Wars, San Francisco, director
- Image galleries 2005-06-27
- Photos: Lucasfilm's new home
- Art, technology and politics intersected in San Francisco as big names from each world feted the new home of "Star Wars" director George Lucas.
- Tags: Lucasfilm, Star Wars, San Francisco, director
- Image galleries 2005-06-27
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- Would Microsoft ever split itself up?
- Would Microsoft ever split itself up?they couldThey could, but they'll never do that. Micro$oft is too greedy. In my perfect world I want to see Microsoft as a software company and another branch as a hardware company for actual computers, Phones and other devices, like Music Players, GPS, and Car-Support.The...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Major Projects, Micro$oft, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Intel CEO Paul Otellini woos the Oracle crowd
- Intel CEO Paul Otellini went highbrow in his keynote slot at Oracle OpenWorld, invoking American architectural icon Frank Lloyd Wright. He was preceded yesterday by rival AMD's CEO Hector Ruiz, who chatted with partners during his keynote see below. Both essentially gave promotional talks, which they...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Paul Otellini, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Data Centers, Corporate Communications, Storage, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Components, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- ILM's Oscar-nominated animators
- Lucasfilm superstars talk shopWith the 2007 Academy Awards approaching, two nominated animators from Industrial Light & Magic sat down with CNET.com's Veronica Belmont to discuss working on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
- Tags: ILM
- Videos 2007-02-24
- News to know: IE 8; Vista; Yahoo & Hillary
- Notable headlines:Microsoft starts gathering IE 8.Adobe to send PDF to standards group. Adobe releasing PDF spec to ISO embracing the Open Web. Adobe statement. iTunes fertile new ground: PDFcasting. Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents it.Open-source identity projects connect with Microsoft. IBM contributes ID software to open source security...
- Tags: General, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Davy Jones in 'Pirates of the Caribbean'
- Meet Industrial Light & Magic animator Hal HickelAt 12, Hal Hickel submitted a plot idea to Lucasfilm. It was politely rejected. Now the grown-up Hickel is animation supervisor for the Pirates movies series at Lucasfilm's ILM. That rejection letter hangs proudly in his office, and now he's hoping he'll have...
- Tags: Hal Hickel
- Videos 2007-01-25
- Visual effects masters put the magic in ILM
- Visual effects masters put the magic in ILMIf anyone deserves it, ILM does.How anyone could think otherwise is beyond me.They forgot to mention ILM use LINUX !!!!SO much for "what can you do in multimedia on Linux" ! :-)http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6011 "Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones,...
- Tags: Linux, ILM
- Discussion threads 2007-01-25
- Lucasfilm Ltd: Accessing and Protecting Creation
- This webcast shows how Lucasfilm Ltd., a leader in visual effects and sound engineering for feature films, is using an HP StorageWorks XP Disk Array to ensure business continuity and asset protection.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., LucasFilm Ltd., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- Intel answers AMD in court
- Intel answers AMD in courtI'd like it to be in summary.Can someone summarize all the parts of the article down to 1 paragraph with a couple of sentences? That way, I can get to know what this article is about before I read the entire article.IMHO, AMD about to be...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Processors, 64-bit, Network technology, computer, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel x86
- Discussion threads 2005-09-01
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