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laboratory and technology incubator focusing on consumer product applications and services with a focus on the Internet. 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.... ursuingbasic innovations in a number of early-stage technologies and eekingto foster industries around them – sparking opportunity for entrepreneurs and highlighting a new approach to research."''. A 1999 ''Wired'' magazine article based on a memo from Paul Allen described the company as under fire from Allen to produce "less R and more D." Interval Research Corporation officially closed its doors in April 2000, while a small group of former employees were kept on to form Interval Media to continue a few specific projects. Interval Media was closed in June, 2006.

Former employees

During its brief existence, Interval employed many well-known computer technology pioneers and experts, including: * Denise Caruso, technology journalist * Franklin C. Crow, inventor of important anti-aliasing techniques * Sally Cruikshank, filmmaker and animator * Marc Davis, founder of Yahoo! Research Berkeley * Trevor Darrell, faculty at

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and co-inventor of Caffe * Paul Debevec, computer graphics researcher * Bruce Donald, geometer and animation researcher (computer graphics), co-inventor (with Tom Ngo) of Embedded Constraint GraphicsSystem 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.
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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 computer * Paul Freiberger, Silicon Valley journalist * Russell Ginns, game designer and author * Don Hopkins, new-media artist,

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developer and pie menu interface designer * Dan Ingalls, inventor of BitBLT and architect of several

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implementations * Brenda Laurel, author, entrepreneur, virtual-reality artist *

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, new-media artist * Daniel Levitin, cognitive neuroscientist, best-selling author * David Liddle, venture capitalist * Max Mathews, acoustician, computer music pioneer * Michael Naimark, new-media artist *

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, electrical engineer, pioneer in satellite telecommunication and a refiner of the original traveling wave tube * David P. Reed, inventor of TCP/IP * Dean Radin, a parapsychologist * Robert Shaw, physicist and chaos theory pioneer * Dick Shoup, computer graphics pioneer * Malcolm Slaney, research scientist at

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, IEEE Fellow * Gillian Crampton Smith, founder of the Computer-Related Design program at the

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in London, and the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea, Italy. * Scott Snibbe, new-media artist * Russell Targ, a physicist and parapsychologist * Bill Verplank, interface designer of the Xerox Star, the first

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GUI * Leo Villareal, installation artist and

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board member * Terry Winograd, emeritus professor of computer science at

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