Interval Research Corporation was founded in 1992 by

Paul Allen Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American business magnate, computer programmer, researcher, investor, and philanthropist. He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which h ...

and David Liddle. It was a

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laboratory and

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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: * Roberto Aiello, technologist and serial entrepreneur * Denise Caruso, technology journalist * Franklin C. Crow, inventor of important anti-aliasing techniques *

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, filmmaker and animator * Marc Davis, founder of Yahoo! Research Berkeley *

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, faculty at

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and co-inventor of Caffe *

Paul Debevec Paul Ernest Debevec is a researcher in computer graphics at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies. He is best known for his work in finding, capturing and synthesizing the bidirectional scattering distribution ...

, computer graphics researcher *

Bruce Donald Bruce Randall Donald (born 1958) is an American computer scientist and computational biologist. He is the James B. Duke Professor of Computer Science and Biochemistry at Duke University. He has made numerous contributions to several fields in ...

, 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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/ref> * Glenn Edens, founder of Grid Systems Corporation, which made the first laptop computer *

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, co-founder of

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and Hunch *

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, Stanford design professor, who led the team that named the corporation "Interval Research" *

Lee Felsenstein Lee Felsenstein (born April 27, 1945) is an American computer engineer who played a central role in the development of the personal computer. He was one of the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club and the designer of the Osborne 1, the ...

, designer of the first mass-produced portable computer *

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, Silicon Valley journalist *

Don Hopkins Don Hopkins is an artist and programmer specializing in human computer interaction and computer graphics. He is an alumnus of the University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland and a former member of the University of Maryland Huma ...

, new-media artist,

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developer and

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interface designer *

Brenda Laurel Brenda Laurel (born 1950) is an American interaction designer, video game designer, and researcher. She is an advocate for diversity and inclusiveness in video games, a "pioneer in developing virtual reality", a public speaker, and an academic. ...

, author, entrepreneur, virtual-reality artist *

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, new-media artist * Daniel Levitin, cognitive neuroscientist, best-selling author * David Levitt, virtual reality pioneer, creator of Pantomime VR platform * David Liddle, venture capitalist *

Max Mathews Max Vernon Mathews (November 13, 1926 in Columbus, Nebraska, USA – April 21, 2011 in San Francisco, CA, USA) was a pioneer of computer music. Biography Mathews studied electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology and the Ma ...

, acoustician, computer music pioneer *

Michael Naimark Michael Naimark is an artist, inventor, and scholar in the fields of virtual reality and new media art. He is best known for his work in projection mapping, virtual travel, live global video, and cultural preservation, and often refers to this bod ...

, new-media artist * Tom Ngo, animation researcher (computer graphics), co-inventor (with

) of Embedded Constraint Graphics *

John R. Pierce John Robinson Pierce (March 27, 1910 – April 2, 2002), was an American engineer and author. He did extensive work concerning radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction. Additionally to his ...

, electrical engineer, inventor of satellite telecommunication and the traveling wave tube * David P. Reed, inventor of TCP/IP *

Dean Radin Dean Radin (; born February 29, 1952) investigates phenomena in parapsychology. Following a bachelor and master's degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in educational psychology Radin worked at Bell Labs, as a researcher at Princeton Universi ...

, a parapsychologist * Robert Shaw, physicist and chaos theory pioneer * Richard Shoup, creator of

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Malcolm Slaney Malcolm Slaney is an American electrical engineer, whose research has focused on machine perception and multimedia analysis. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for "contributions to perceptual signal processing and tomographic imaging". He is a consulti ...

, research scientist at

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*Andrew Singer PhD, Research & Development, formerly at Radius, founder of THINK Technologies *

Gillian Crampton Smith Gillian Crampton Smith is a British educator, interaction designer, and a pioneer of computer desktop publishing. Since the early 1980s she has developed several academic graduate programs focused on digital graphic design, typesetting and huma ...

, founder of the Computer-Related Design program at the

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in London, and the

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in Ivrea, Italy. *

Scott Snibbe Scott Snibbe (born 1969 in New York City) is an interactive media artist, entrepreneur, and meditation instructor who is currently the host of A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment meditation podcast. He has collaborated with other artists and musici ...

, new-media artist *

Russell Targ Russell Targ (born April 11, 1934) is an American physicist, parapsychologist and author who is best known for his work on remote viewing. Targ joined Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in 1972 where he and Harold E. Puthoff coined the term "rem ...

, a physicist and parapsychologist *

Bill Verplank William "Bill" Lawrence Verplank is a designer and researcher who focuses on interactions between humans and computers. He is one of the pioneers of interaction design, a field of design that focuses on users and technology, and a term he helped c ...

, interface designer of the

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, the first

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GUI *

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, installation artist and Burning Man board member *

Terry Winograd Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946) is an American professor of computer science at Stanford University, and co-director of the Stanford Human–Computer Interaction Group. He is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intell ...

, emeritus professor of computer science at

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, inventor of BitBLT and architect of several

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implementations * Tim Rowledge, designer, software engineer,

er, author http://sdmeta.gforge.inria.fr/FreeBooks/CollectiveNBlueBook/Rowledge-Final.pdf originating student of the Computer-Related Design program at the

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